SAN DIEGO (AP) Rookie Ethan Salas singled in Jake Cronenworth from third base with one out in the 10th inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Miami Marlins 7-6 on Saturday night to lower their magic number to three for clinching their third straight postseason berth.<\/p>\n
Salas, the Padres’ top prospect who was called up Sept. 1, punched a single up the middle on an 0-2 pitch from Josh Ekness (2-4) and his teammates mobbed him in a wild celebration that ended up in the outfield.<\/p>\n
Cronenworth, the automatic runner, advanced on a wild pitch. David Morgan (4-1) got the victory.<\/p>\n
The winning hit came an inning after pinch-hitter Griffin Conine drove a towering, tying homer off Mason Miller with one out in the ninth.<\/p>\n
The Padres won for the 12th time in 13 games and remained tied with the Chicago Cubs at 86-69 for the National League’s top wild-card spot, although the Cubs hold the tiebreaker. The Philadelphia Phillies lost 10-3 to the New York Mets to drop a game back.<\/p>\n
The earliest the Padres can clinch a wild-card spot is Tuesday night at the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Miller was trying for a five-out save when Connine hit a 102-mph four-seamer an estimated 427 feet to right, his 17th.<\/p>\n
Fernando Tatis Jr. tied it at 5 with a solo homer leading off the fourth off Eury P\u00e9rez for the Padres, who on Sunday will go for their second sweep of the Marlins this season.<\/p>\n
Ty France then punched an opposite-field double over the outstretched glove of right fielder Esteury Ruiz with two outs in the sixth to bring in Dustin Harris, who was aboard on a one-out opposite field double to left. Harris extended his hitting streak to nine games.<\/p>\n
The Marlins roughed up Casey Mize through three innings to take a 5-1 lead, including Otto Lopez’s two-run home run, his 11th, in the second.<\/p>\n
San Diego’s Samad Taylor homered off P\u00e9rez in the second, his second, and the Padres scored three in the third, including on Jake Cronenworth’s bases-loaded walk.<\/p>\n
Marlins RHP Sandy Alcantara (13-10, 3.85 ERA) and Padres RHP Walker Buehler (8-6, 4.58) were scheduled to start Sunday in the series finale.<\/p>\n
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