One inning later, it was 16-12, Mariners, and Seattle was 95.1% to win the game.
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Mariners shortstop Shawn O’Malley then greeted Thornton with a go-ahead RBI single of his own to make it 13-12.
STAT PACK: The Padres’ 14 runs were, by far, the most allowed this season by the Mariners.
Fresh off the greatest comeback win in Mariners history – a 16-13 victory over the Padres on Thursday at Petco Park after trailing by 10 – Seattle will play four games against the Rangers in Texas this weekend.
The Mariners went 11-for-12 with runners in scoring position. It was Lee’s second pinch-hit home run of his first big league season, and he became the first Mariners rookie ever to hit two home runs off the bench in a season.
“I had a little more juice than I’ve had in a while”, Cishek said, “because they was just no way I can let that get away”. Dae-Ho Lee opened the third inning by one-hopping a drive off the left-field wall.
“It’s all related to the calf and the strain he’s got there”, Servais said.
A return home hasn’t changed much for the Padres, and San Diego’s season hit a new low point Thursday night. The San Diego bullpen got hammered for 10 runs on nine hits in a span of 1 2/3 innings.
The Padres began their comeback when Myers launched a one-out homer, on the last of four straight fastballs, over the right-field wall.
Paxton allowed eight runs, three earned, on 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings.
Mariners: Servais said he hopes Hernandez misses only a few starts.
The Padres still had a shaky start, with Christian Friedrich allowing Robinson Cano’s three-run homer during a 37-pitch first inning in which the lefty escaped a bases-loaded jam.
Ramirez hit a pair of two-run homers and an RBI single. Colin Rea takes the hill, and he’s 3-2 with a 4.47 ERA and 36 strikeouts this season.
Paxton gave up six runs in the first inning…six runs to an opponent that ranked 28th in scoring among the 30 clubs. They scored six runs – more runs than they scored in 42 of 53 games this season – and were well on their way to the second-most productive night of the season. I think I’ve seen seven or eight, but never 10.
Jay doubled and hit four singles in his first five at-bats, including RBI singles in the fourth and fifth.
Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager throws out San Diego Padres’ Matt Kemp at first in the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 2, 2016, in San Diego.
But despite some of the struggles, Hernandez has remained an elite pitcher.
Such a dramatic reversal of fortune seemed next-to-impossible after the Padres clobbered starter Wade Miley for 12 hits and nine earned runs in 4.2 innings, then torched reliever Mike Montgomery for three more and a 12-2 lead.
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A three-run cushion should have softened the landing for Paxton in the bottom of the first, but when he finally got out No. 3 – striking out Friedrich, the ninth hitter of the inning, the lead was gone and the Mariners trailed 6-3. He struck out two and walked two among his 94 pitches.
