Allowing four hits, two earned runs, one home run and one walk, Clemens also struck out five opposing batters. Tony Cingrani picked up his 13th save. Suarez notched a two-RBI single that scored Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips.
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Eugenio Suarez singled and Jose Peraza followed with a home run into the second deck of the Western Metal Supply Co., building. Amarista was thrown out trying to score on a wild pitch. He had six strikeouts.NOTES: Matt Kemp was a late scratch from the Padres lineup Saturday as the Padres and Atlanta Braves completed a trade that sent the right fielder to the Braves for suspended INF/OF Hector Olivera. “He caught a lot of the plate early on”. Cincinnati RHP Homer Bailey (Tommy John surgery) will take the mound Sunday to make his first start since April 23, 2015.3. After Peraza popped out, Tucker Barnhart hit a come-backer that caromed off Dominguez’s foot toward third for an infield single that scored Duvall. His breaking ball had just missed the corner, and Bailey wasn’t too pleased with the call. His shrewd swipe of home plate was one of two steals for him in the game, and Myers now has 19 stolen bases this season.
“It was heads-up running on Myers’ part and a lapse on my part”, Bailey said. “I knew it was my last hitter”.
Blake Wood relieved Bailey and retired Bethancourt looking to end the threat.
The Padres loaded the bases with one out in the eighth, but reliever Michael Lorenzen fanned Jabari Blash and Christian Bethancourt flied out. Kemp’s removal from the lineup created a problem for the Padres, who were without LF Alex Dickerson (right hip contusion from a collision Friday night) and carrying an eight-man bullpen. OF Jay Bruce didn’t start for the Reds on Sunday amid speculation he was about to be traded…. Padres RHP Erik Johnson, who has been on the disabled list since July 1 with an elbow strain, likely won’t pitch again this season…. 759 with seven homers in 13 games since the All-Star break, the sort of production that the Padres hoped Dickerson – and now Blash – might replicate with regular at-bats.
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The Washington Nationals made history by turning the first 3-3-5 triple play ever in the major leagues then watched as third baseman Anthony Rendon tossed the ball from the milestone moment into the crowd at AT&T Park. Rondon started two straight.
