Schimpf also homered Friday night and has 16 this season.
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The Padres took the lead with a four-run fourth keyed by Sardinas’ bases-clearing double as nine men went to the plate.
Richard (1-3) worked around eight hits and one walk, striking out three to earn his first win since September 17, 2015, at Pittsburgh.
“The guy is a good low-ball hitter”, Mattingly said of Schimpf.
Jeff Francoeur has needed little time to make a huge impact with the Miami Marlins, who look to make it two straight victories over the visiting San Diego Padres on Saturday night. I couldn’t explain. I’ve had a lot of good coaches along the way to help me out for sure. “When we look at Tyson the only thing that really matters is health”, manager Andy Green said.
Yelich increased Miami’s lead to 2-0 in the third when his groundout drove in Realmuto, who reached on Schimpf’s fielding error at second and advanced to third after Prado’s single to right. He executed his pitches after going 2 and 0 to Ichiro (Suzuki).
San Diego starter Jarred Cosart allowed two runs and five hits over five innings in his first appearance against his former club where he spent parts of the last three seasons.
“I tried to keep the ball down and that was a pretty good game”, Urena said. He pulled a 96-mph Jose Urena fastball over the fence in right-center.Miami’s loss came despite a stellar performance by Martin Prado, who went 4-for-4 to raise his batting average to.323. Dee Gordon pinch-ran for Prado and was stranded at second after Brad Hand relieved Dominguez and retired the next three batters.
Chris Johnson took advantage of the Padres’ outfielders playing shallow with a run-scoring ground-rule double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give the Marlins the win.
In addition, Miami announced after the game that Andrew Cashner, the pitcher the Marlins acquired from the Padres on July 29 in a seven-player deal, will not make Sunday’s scheduled start due to a finger blister. “We were hoping it was going to heal, but it stayed tender”. With the Padres starting a lefty pitcher, Miami rested lefty-hitting 2B Dee Gordon, replacing him with Robert Andino.RF Oswaldo Arcia, who went 0-for-2 earlier this week in his very brief Marlins career, started for the Padres. “I felt like he was exhausted going into the game yesterday and then he ends up getting three at-bats, playing a lot of it and I felt like with a day game tomorrow I want him in there for sure”, Mattingly said.
Meanwhile, the Padres (54-75), who have always been out of the playoff chase, have a chance to win this three-game series when it concludes on Sunday. “I don’t think he was very happy, but if that had been a normal game last night he would be in there today”.
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Padres: RHP Tyson Ross (right shoulder) made a rehab start with Class-A Lake Elsinore on Thursday allowing four runs in 2/3 of an inning.
