{"id":462379,"date":"2026-09-13T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:41:06","slug":"merrill-tatis-homer-as-padres-fend-off-giants-7-6-devers-hits-hr-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462379\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill, Tatis homer as Padres fend off Giants 7-6; Devers hits HR #37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; &#8211; Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Jr. each hit solo homers, Mason Miller pitched a flawless ninth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6 Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Michael King (11-9) worked around homers from Rafael Devers and Shay Whitcomb to pitch three-run ball over seven innings, but the Giants rallied against reliever Bradgley Rodriguez. Drew Cavanaugh led off with his first career homer, and Drew Gilbert added a two-run shot to get within a run.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-2294951999.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"San Diego Padres v San Francisco Giants \" height=\"419\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Fernando Tatis Jr. #23 of the San Diego Padres is congratulated by teammates after he hit a solo home run against the San Francisco Giants in the top of the sixth inning at Oracle Park on September 12, 2026 in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p>                Thearon W. Henderson \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Miller stifled the Giants from there, striking out two on 19 pitches for his 36th save.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres entered the day a half-game ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the last NL wild card. Arizona was set to play later against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>In his second career start, Cesar Perdomo (0-1) surrendered five runs on 10 hits in 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-2294936116.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"San Diego Padres v San Francisco Giants \" height=\"419\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rafael Devers #16 of the San Francisco Giants hits a two-run home run against the San Diego Padres in the bottom of the first inning at Oracle Park on September 12, 2026 in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p>                Thearon W. Henderson \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Devers&#8217; shot in the first inning was the slugger&#8217;s seventh home run of the month and his 37th this season. He is batting .342 with 19 RBI and a .456 on-base percentage in September.<\/p>\n<p>Xander Bogaerts added four hits in five at-bats for San Diego while Austin Hays added two hits.<\/p>\n<p>Up next <\/p>\n<p>Giants ace Logan Webb (8-8, 4.10 ERA) opposes Padres RHP Nick Pivetta (2-2, 3.43) for the final game of the series on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; &#8211; Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Jr. each hit solo homers, Mason Miller pitched a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3834,74,2611,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127,5224],"class_list":["post-462379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462379","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=462379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}