Nick Pivetta landed on the injured list<\/a>, King fashioned his second straight quality start, Xander Bogaerts drove in three runs and Mason Miller was dominant again in a 4-1 win over the Mariners on Tuesday night in front of a crowd of 38,152 at Petco Park.<\/p>\nThe victory extended the Padres\u2019 winning streak to six games, their longest since a six-gamer last year from July 26-Aug. 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cKing\u2019s competed well for us and got us through the sixth inning a couple times,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said after his team\u2019s 11th win, tied for the second most in the majors. \u201cIt just speaks to how good a pitcher he is. He can go in there without his best stuff and get through a really good lineup like they have tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
King struck out five and allowed one run on four hits over six innings. Really, the only thing to nitpick was command as he threw just 49 of his 85 pitches for strikes, walked two batters and hit two batters.<\/p>\n
But King helped himself with a double-play to end the sixth inning with left-hander Adri\u00e1n Morej\u00f3n warming for a grouping of five left-handed-hitters looming had the inning not ended as quickly as it did.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still don\u2019t feel super confident in the pitch locations that I got right now,\u201d King said. \u201cMechanically, I\u2019m definitely making adjustments throughout every start. I like to get on that roll where I don\u2019t think mechanics at all. Luckily, I don\u2019t think mechanics while I\u2019m actually competing, because I just want to compete. But the five days in between, it\u2019s a lot of work getting put in there. So today was better than my last one, but yeah, still a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The outing, nevertheless, lowered King\u2019s ERA to 2.78. He finished his best season as a starting pitcher with a 2.95 ERA in 2024 before drawing the Padres\u2019 playoff opener that fall. He was limited to 73\u2153 innings in an injury-riddled 2025 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like my mechanics were the best in 2022 when I was a reliever, because I was touching the mound so consistently,\u201d King said. \u201cAnd then with the injuries last year and only having however many innings, I feel like it\u2019s almost foreign out there. So I\u2019ve got to get as many innings under my belt as possible and get as comfortable as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morej\u00f3n entered in the seventh and breezed through a perfect frame for only his third scoreless appearance in seven outings this season. Right-hander Jason Adam erased a one-out walk with an inning-ending double play in the eighth and Miller struck out a batter in a scoreless ninth for his fifth save.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s outing extended his scoreless innings streak to 29\u2154 innings, four frames off the record that Cla Meredith set in 2006. It is also the longest active streak in the majors. Miller has struck out 20 of the 27 batters he\u2019s faced this year.<\/p>\n
The Padres got to Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo in the third inning, with new leadoff hitter Ram\u00f3n Laureano tripling off the wall in right with one out to start a three-run rally.<\/p>\n
Fernando Tatis Jr. followed with a single through a drawn-in infield. Jackson Merrill also singled and stole second to put runners on second and third for Bogaerts, who drove in both runs with two out with a single to center.<\/p>\n
The three runs in the third inning alone were more than Woo had allowed the Padres in any of his previous three starts combined against them. He entered the game with a 2.33 ERA over 19\u2153 innings against the Padres.<\/p>\n
While he allowed only the three runs, Woo was dancing around traffic in every inning outside the sixth inning. He struck out three and allowed eight hits and a walk over seven innings.<\/p>\n
The Padres added an insurance run in the eighth \u00a0inning when Merrill greeted reliever Casey Legumina with a double, moved to third on Manny Machado\u2019s fly ball to left and scored on Bogaerts\u2019 third single of the game to raise his batting average to .270.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, he\u2019s been taking great at-bats the entire season,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cHe had a little two- or three-day funk where he wasn\u2019t trusting what they were working on in the cage, and then he kind of went back to it. And we\u2019ve just seen him barrel a lot of baseballs tonight. He didn\u2019t really hit them as hard as he\u2019s been hitting them. But we talk about the luck kind of turning our ways and some of those softer hits falling in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael King isn\u2019t quite back to his old self. But he\u2019s getting there. Hours after rotation-mate Nick Pivetta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-268566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}