There has not been much joy in the 2025 Padres season, but during Tuesday night’s game the Padres were homer happy.<\/p>\n
The San Diego Padres his 4 home runs in an 8-3 win over the Braves, 2 by Manny Machado and 1 each from Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill.<\/p>\n
Tatis’ twp-run shot in the eighth traveled 474 feet. The previous longest of the season was a 473-foot shot by Braves catcher Drake Baldwin. It was the second longest home run of Tatis’ career, a 477-foot shot in 2021 at Coors Field in Colorado.<\/p>\n
Machado didn’t hit a home run 477 feet, but he combined to hit 830 feet of home runs Tuesday night. Machado hit a 412-foot homer in the 5th giving the Padres a 5-2 lead, then a 418-foot homer in the 6th increasing the lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n
Merrill’s solo home run started a 3-run 4th inning that saw the Padres take a lead they would never relinquish.<\/p>\n
As a team the Padres had 13 hits from 8 different players, including 4 players with at least 2 hits. <\/p>\n
With the win the Padres improved to 50-51 and are 2 games of the final wild-card playoff spot in the National League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has not been much joy in the 2025 Padres season, but during Tuesday night’s game the Padres…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,2611],"class_list":["post-407608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407608","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=407608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}