{"id":338769,"date":"2026-09-05T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:22","slug":"yankees-surrender-walk-off-homer-in-extra-innings-in-loss-to-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338769\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees surrender walk-off homer in extra innings in loss to Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO \u2014 The local boy made good, but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

After Spencer Jones put the Yankees ahead with a leadoff single in the top of the 10th against Padres flamethrower Mason Miller, his homecoming heroics got spoiled in the bottom of the frame.<\/p>\n

Luis Campusano hit a walk-off two-run shot against Paul Blackburn to lift the Padres past the Yankees, 3-2, in a playoff-like atmosphere on Friday night at a sold-out Petco Park.<\/p>\n

Blackburn had not allowed a run in his last 13 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings before Friday night<\/a>, or a home run since July 29. But after striking out the first batter he faced, he picked a bad time to snap both streaks, leaving a first-pitch sinker over the heart of the plate with one out that Campusano crushed to left field to end it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely [stings],\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cGot all the confidence in the world there in Paul. \u2026 Probably wanted to get the sinker a little bit more in, but Campusano also put a really good swing on it. It\u2019s part of it. We got a quick turnaround, get after it [Saturday].\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones had led off the top of the 10th with a single on Miller\u2019s 100 mph fastball that put the Yankees up 2-1, but was later thrown out trying to steal third.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper excited to get a good swing off a good pitcher and give the guys a lead,\u201d said Jones, who hails from nearby Encinitas and grew up going to games here. \u201cI was ecstatic, and then quick turnaround and game over.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a night when they lost Trent Grisham to a right hamstring injury<\/a> that could land him back on the IL, the Yankees (80-61) fell to four games back of the Rays for the division with 21 games to play, with the Red Sox moving within 3 \u00b9\/\u2082 games of them for the top AL wild card.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Max Fried was sharp in his second start back from the injured list for a recurrence of his left elbow bone bruise, building up to 72 pitches across 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings of one-run ball. <\/p>\n

Luis Campusano celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run walk-off home run in the 10th inning of the Yankees\u2019 3-2 loss to the Padres on Sept. 4, 2026 in Los Angeles. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The left-hander pounded the strike zone, allowing him to be efficient and get deeper into the game despite the limited pitch count.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter and better every time,\u201d Fried said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s more about, we have to win these games. So I\u2019m going out there just trying to put up zeros. Ideally it would be better to be 12 pitches or less [in an inning], but it\u2019s more important to make sure you\u2019re putting up zeros as much as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Yankees moving their pitching around to take advantage of off days on Thursday and Monday, Will Warren piggybacked Fried for his second relief appearance of the season and was equally strong in a potential preview of his playoff role. <\/p>\n

Spencer Jones celebrates after hitting an RBI single and advancing to second base during the 10th inning of the Yankees\u2019 loss to the Padres. AP Photo\/Gregory Bull<\/p>\n

The right-hander threw 2 \u00b9\/\u2083 scoreless innings, allowing just one baserunner before handing off to David Bednar to start the bottom of the ninth.<\/p>\n

But the Padres bullpen matched with zeroes in relief of Walker Buehler, including lefty Adrian Morejon and Miller \u2014 who were both connected to the Yankees leading up to the trade deadline before both remained in San Diego. <\/p>\n

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Morejon struck out the side in the eighth inning before Miller retired the side in the ninth with two more punchouts, one on a 102 mph heater to Cody Bellinger, who fouled a ball off his left foot earlier in the game and appeared to be favoring throughout the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two guys are pretty tough,\u201d Boone said. \u201c[Bradgley] Rodr\u00edguez and [Yuki] Matsui are good too. But Morejon and Miller are pretty dynamic there. Great swing by Spencer to get us on the board in the 10th, but obviously a tough one in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Warren delivers a pitch during the sixth inning of the Yankees\u2019 loss to the Padres. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Padres (74-67) nearly won it in the bottom of the ninth, when the winning run got to third on a double and a passed ball from Austin Wells. But Bednar struck out Austin Hays to send it to extras.<\/p>\n

After the Yankees fell behind 1-0 in the second inning on Xander Bogaerts\u2019 bloop single that fell in front of Grisham \u2014 who may have been able to catch if he was fully healthy \u2014 Ben Rice tied the game in the top of the third when he clobbered a 444-foot shot to the batter\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n

His 36th home run of the season was his second-longest, trailing only a 447-footer last month in Baltimore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 The local boy made good, but it wasn\u2019t enough. After Spencer Jones put the Yankees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34720,20,9,11,10,321,29911,44865,319,5390,46145],"class_list":["post-338769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-spencer-jones","tag-sports","tag-trent-grisham","tag-will-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}