Final<\/p>\n
Padres 6, Twins 2<\/p>\n
Starting pitcher performance<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO \u2014 The fifth-inning rally that spelled the beginning of the Twins\u2019 demise on Friday night started innocently, with Austin Hays sending a softly-hit ground ball to wardsBrooks Lee at third for an infield single.<\/p>\n
After retiring a batter, Connor Prielipp walked Jake Cronenworth on six pitches, and from there, the Padres were off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost command for a little bit and then kind of got singled to death for a little bit,\u201d Prelipp said. \u201cThey were able to capitalize.\u201d<\/p>\n
That they were.<\/p>\n
Three singles followed, as well as a sacrifice fly, part of a four-run inning for San Diego (69-60). The Padres also put up a pair of runs on the rookie starter in the first inning when Ty France took a fastball over the plate that Prielipp intended to put up and away,out to left-center field for his 18th home run of the season.<\/p>\n
All told, Prielipp gave up six runs, that coming after a start in which he allowed eight to the Phillies, including seven in one inning. Prielipp ended his outing with a clean sixth inning, which was an important one for the Twins, as they tried to preserve their heavily-worked bullpen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been fun on these last few outings, but it\u2019s a long season, and we got a good month left, so hopefully we can string a couple good ones together,\u201d the starter said.<\/p>\n
Player of the Game<\/p>\n
Padres starter Randy V\u00e1squez started off his night by retiring the first nine batters he faced. He finished it by retiring the last 10 batters he saw.<\/p>\n
In between was a minor blip in the fourth inning when the Twins (63-66) were able to mount a two-run rally, which tied the game at the time. Both runs came around to score on a Kody Clemens triple that ricocheted off the wall in right field and away from Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had three fastballs with the cutter, sinker and four (seamer),\u201d Clemens said. \u201cHe executed pretty well, throwing 96-97 (miles per hour), keeping us off the barrel. We put the ball in play a bunch, but just early in counts. He did a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from the big hit from Clemens, V\u00e1squez was nearly untouchable. He gave up just two hits in his seven innings pitched, striking out three in his outing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you get pitched to. (Friday) we got pitched to,\u201d manager Derek Shelton said. \u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got to tip your cap to the guy on the other side.<\/p>\n
Tatis Jr. helped lead the team\u2019s offense, collecting a team-high three hits, while former France drove in the Padres\u2019 win.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Dean Kremer (2-4, 5.40 ERA) will take the ball on Saturday for the second game of the series against the Padres. He will be opposed by former division foe Casey Mize (5-7, 3.18 ERA) in a game set to begin at 7:40 p.m. CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Final Padres 6, Twins 2 Starting pitcher performance SAN DIEGO \u2014 The fifth-inning rally that spelled the beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19317,1334,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-440192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440192","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=440192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}