{"id":315487,"date":"2026-05-14T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:56:10","slug":"down-to-their-final-out-san-diego-forces-rubber-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315487\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to their final out, San Diego forces rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a pitcher\u2019s duel until the end. In what has become a regular occurrence for the San Diego Padres, they won it on Gavin Sheets<\/a>\u2019 two-out, three-run homer. It was a great way to make up for the fact that the Friars hadn\u2019t done a thing to back up starter Michael King\u2019s gem.<\/p>\n

The San Diego<\/a> pitching staff only gave up one run (mostly due to some batted-ball luck) while Milwaukee Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> went seven scoreless innings. He came out to pitch the eighth but exited because of an apparent injury sustained while warming up.<\/p>\n

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It was a win the Padres needed \u2014 which seems to be an oft-used saying lately \u2014 and it was one they got. They forced the rubber match and could take the series this afternoon if Griffin Canning<\/a> can rebound from his last start.<\/p>\n

Taking the moundKyle Harrison<\/a> (MIL) v. Griffin Canning (SD)<\/p>\n

Harrison has had a great start to the season, pitching to a 2.41 ERA across 33 2\/3 innings. The young lefty has impressed after being traded from the Boston Red Sox<\/a> for Caleb Durbin<\/a>. He\u2019s racked up 41 strikeouts in that time but has a high 1.22 WHIP.<\/p>\n

The southpaw had two of his rougher outings lately against the Washington Nationals<\/a> and the New York Yankees<\/a>, giving up one run and two runs respectively. Those were still great outings, but Harrison showed some issues with command in his most recent start, walking four Yankees batters across as many innings.<\/p>\n

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Canning\u2019s last start was tough. He surrendered six runs to the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> in 4 1\/3 innings on May 8. But that was all due to a tough-luck fifth inning that forced Canning out of the game. But he had a great debut, pitching five innings of one-run ball.<\/p>\n

That recent outing is hurting his stats a bit, raising his ERA to 6.75 and his WHIP to 1.61 across 9 1\/3 innings. If he can rebound against Milwaukee today, it would be a move in the right direction for Canning\u2019s San Diego tenure.<\/p>\n

Batter up!<\/p>\n

Skipper Craig Stammen<\/a> has spent this series in Milwaukee prioritizing offense in his lineup. He\u2019s started Nick Castellanos<\/a> in right field, meaning Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a> plays second base. Miguel Andujar<\/a> and Gavin Sheets have been in the lineup consistently as well. That is likely to continue.<\/p>\n

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Bogaerts has been solid lately, and owns a .286 career average against Harrison. The same goes for Tatis whose career average is .444 with a 1.333 OPS.<\/p>\n

But the real story is Castellanos, who owns a .600 average and 2.000 OPS against the southpaw. His bat could be a major addition to today\u2019s series finale, but he may be out of the lineup instead given how much time he\u2019s spent in right field lately.<\/p>\n

Relief corps<\/p>\n

Behind King\u2019s great outing, Jeremiah Estrada<\/a>, Jason Adam<\/a> and Mason Miller<\/a> locked down the final three-plus innings. They each pitched scoreless appearances, with Miller pitching his 13th save of the season, regaining the major-league lead.<\/p>\n

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That saved the majority of the \u2018pen for today\u2019s series finale, with Ron Marinaccio<\/a>, Yuki Matsui<\/a>, Adrian Morejon, Wandy Peralta<\/a> and Bradgley Rodriguez available. Morejon and Rodriguez are the highest leverage options of the bunch. Should it be a close game when Canning departs, they\u2019ll be the first two out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a pitcher\u2019s duel until the end. In what has become a regular occurrence for the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24643,82368,27847,3494,78582,77535,84704,51388,4390,47263,47264,82372,3493,7867,29290,47882,3833,54,5223,82370,7868,47260,74,76,75,2611,100917,2846,26077,19316,11101,60758,47259],"class_list":["post-315487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-craig-stammen","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-gavin-sheets","tag-griffin-canning","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jason-adam","tag-jeremiah-estrada","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-manny-machado","tag-mason-miller","tag-michael-king","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nick-castellanos","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-ron-marinaccio","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-wandy-peralta","tag-washington-nationals","tag-wisconsin","tag-xander-bogaerts","tag-yuki-matsui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315487","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=315487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}