An inning earlier, the 22-year-old Rondon – the Padres’ seventh-best prospect in Baseball America’s midseason rankings – followed a diving stab to start a double play with the first hit of his career, a single to center field.
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The 26-year-old Dickerson – a.382 hitter this year at Triple-A El Paso – had homered in four straight games when Green inserted him as his clean-up hitter on Friday for the second time this year only to have a first-inning collision prevent him from taking any swings in that spot.
The Reds took the three-game series and completed their first winning road trip (4-2) since 2014. The home run record the Padres have been chasing has been snuffed out thanks to the visiting Reds, and now the Padres will look to take a measure of revenge against the visiting team in the second game of the series at Petco Park. Amarista was thrown out trying to score on a wild pitch.
The Padres loaded the bases with one out in the eighth, but reliever Michael Lorenzen fanned Jabari Blash and Christian Bethancourt flied out. Bailey was then lifted after 89 pitches. In the 6th, Bailey walked three before being pulled with 2 outs in the inning after Wil Myers alertly stole home as Bailey awaited the hook. Padres third baseman Adam Rosales turned a Suarez grounder into a force at home, with the Reds needed a successful appeal of the ensuing play at first to avoid a double play.
“I saw that (Bailey) would turn his back on a lot of close calls, ” Myers said. “And I knew that if he walked (Blash) that he might turn his back again”.
Blake Wood relieved Bailey and retired Bethancourt looking to end the threat.
Peraza had been working on using the middle of the field, but during Sunday’s voluntary batting practice he was lining the ball to left. “I left a couple of balls over the plate when I had chances to put people away, and I paid for it”.
Reds: RHP Homer Bailey (right elbow) will exit the disabled list and start on Sunday against the Padres.
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Anthony DeSclafani now holds a ideal win-loss record (6-0) despite allowing five runs over five innings against the Giants in his last start. He leads the Reds in innings pitched (122), strikeouts (97) and quality starts (12). But it was no ordinary homer as Peraza’s 424-foot drive landed on the second balcony of the Western Metal Supply Co. building in left.Clemens, who was moved into the Padres’ rotation Friday after starting pitchers Andrew Cashner and Colin Rea were traded to the Miami Marlins, departed the game with one out in the top of the fifth with tightness in his lower back.
