Victor Robles scored the go-ahead run on Josh Hader’s two-base throwing error and rookie Alex Call followed with his first career home run, a two-run shot, as the Washington Nationals stunned the San Diego Padres 6-3 on Friday night.
It was the second straight rough outing for Hader, has struggled as a Padre.
Hader started the ninth in a 3-3 game and issued a leadoff walk to Robles, drawing boos for a second straight night. Hader fielded Lane Thomas’ tapper between the mound and the third base line and yank’d it past first baseman Josh Bell, with Thomas given a single. The ball caromed off the low wall and into right field, where Juan Soto lunged wildly for it but missed. That allowed Robles to come all the way around and score the go-ahead run.
Call then drove a two-run shot into the left field seats. Melvin said Hader’s situation
This is the second stanza between the teams since the Nationals, who have the worst record in the majors, sent Soto and Bell to San Diego in exchange for a package of major leaguers and prospects on Aug. 2. The Padres, trying to hold onto the third wild-card spot in the NL, took two of three in Washington last weekend and the Nationals won the opener of this series 3-1 on Thursday night.
Erasmo Ramirez pitched a perfect eighth for the win and Kyle Finnegan worked the ninth for his seventh save. Yea
The Nationals had taken a 3-1 lead on rookie C.J. Abrams’ two-run single with two outs in the fourth off Blake Snell and Keibert Ruiz’s RBI single with two outs in the fifth.
San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the second when Trent Grisham singled in Drury.
The Padres chased Washington starter Paolo Espino with consecutive one-out walks in the fifth and Manny Machado greeted reliever Victor Arano with a two-run double to the gap in right-center to tie the game at 3. Machado took third on a wild pitch but was stranded when Brandon Drury and Jake Cronenworth struck out.
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