{"id":308550,"date":"2026-05-10T05:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:15:14","slug":"manny-machado-hits-his-200th-homer-in-a-padres-uniform-as-san-diego-beats-st-louis-4-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308550\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Machado hits his 200th homer in a Padres uniform as San Diego beats St. Louis 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado hit his 375th career homer and 200th in a Padres uniform, Ty France also went deep and San Diego beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Tatis Jr. had a tiebreaking two-run single in the fifth inning to back Randy V\u00e1squez (4-1), who gave up one run and six hits while striking out six in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Miller got the final out of the eighth but the Padres&#8217; closer ran into some uncharacteristic trouble in the ninth, walking two batters before Yahel Pozo reached when he struck out on a slider in the dirt. Miller escaped the jam by setting down JJ Wetherholt looking on a 101 mph fastball for his fourth strikeout of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The dominant right-hander has been scored on in just one of his 18 outings this season and has a major league-leading 12 saves in as many opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Machado <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2053291075691786534\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">homered in the eighth<\/a> off reliever Matt Svanson to make it 4-2. He also hit 162 homers for Baltimore and 13 in half a season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Church gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in the fourth with an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres tied it in the fifth when France homered to center off Dustin May (3-4). Later in the frame, Tatis blooped a single to right to make it 3-1. May surrendered three runs on three hits and struck out seven in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth, Iv\u00e1n Herrera doubled down the left-field line off San Diego reliever Adrian Morejon to score Wetherholt from first.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals RHP Kyle Leahy (4-3, 4.93 ERA) will start opposite Padres RHP Walker Buehler (2-2, 15.64) on Sunday as San Diego seeks a split of the four-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado hit his 375th career homer and 200th in a Padres uniform, Ty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[47256,129619,129538,3494,129623,3493,7867,129621,129622,2390,5341,5337,5339,5340,110011,89232,74,76,75,96848,129620],"class_list":["post-308550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-adrian-morejon","tag-cardinals-padres-score","tag-dustin-may","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-manny-machado","tag-mason-miller","tag-matt-svanson","tag-nathan-church","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-randy-vasquez","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-ty-france","tag-yahel-pozo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308550","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=308550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}