For 50 years, Nate Colbert stood by himself atop the San Diego Padres’ all-time residence run checklist. The likes of Dave Winfield, Ken Caminiti, Phil Nevin, Adrian Gonzalez, Tony Gwynn and Fernando Tatis Jr. have powered lengthy blasts whereas sporting San Diego uniforms.
On Friday evening, Colbert lastly received firm atop the chief board when Manny Machado hit two solo pictures in the course of the Padres’ 5-1 win over the visiting San Francisco Giants.
Tied with Colbert at 163 homers with San Diego, Machado will get an opportunity to interrupt the file Saturday evening when San Diego shoots for a sequence win that would assist it additional solidify its playoff place.
“It is a terrific honor, ? It has been a brief time period in San Diego, so to be up on the chief board and be part of historical past is particular,” mentioned Machado, 32.
Machado has performed the final six years with the Padres, matching Colbert’s tenure with the group from 1969-74. Colbert twice hit 38 homers in a season and tied Stan Musial’s 5 homers in a doubleheader on Aug. 1, 1972, in Atlanta.
Machado will try and make San Diego historical past towards San Francisco’s high starter, sinkerballer Logan Webb (11-9, 3.43 ERA). The precise-hander final pitched on Sunday, giving up six runs on eight hits over six innings in a 7-5 residence loss to Miami.
“Everybody did the best factor apart from me at this time,” Webb mentioned after the defeat. “I do not be ok with it. That was my unhealthy.”
Webb usually saves a few of his greatest outings for the Padres, going 3-2 with a 2.55 ERA in 12 profession appearances (11 begins) and allowing solely two homers in 70 2/3 innings. He is pitched twice towards them this yr, yielding 4 runs over 13 innings in two no-decisions.
Whereas Webb and the Giants (69-73) attempt to salvage one thing from a misplaced season, San Diego (81-62) continues its push for a Nationwide League playoff spot and potential NL West title. Its win on Friday evening allowed it to broaden its lead over Arizona for the highest wild-card spot to 1 1/2 video games, which may imply home-field benefit for the primary spherical.
And the Padres received assist from the Los Angeles Dodgers, who fell to Cleveland 3-1 to chop San Diego’s deficit to 4 video games within the division. Ought to San Diego and Los Angeles end tied for first place, the Padres personal the tiebreaker as a result of they’ve already received the season sequence.
The one adverse from Friday evening was a left patella contusion for Rookie of the Yr candidate Jackson Merrill of the Padres after he fouled a ball off his knee within the sixth inning. Merrill left the sport earlier than the eighth inning, however X-rays on his knee have been adverse.
San Diego will ship right-hander Dylan Stop (12-10, 3.62 ERA) to the mound on Saturday. He is coming off a no-decision Sunday towards Tampa Bay after permitting three runs on two hits and three walks in five-plus innings of his group’s 4-3 victory.
Stop is 2-1 with a 2.61 ERA in 4 profession begins towards the Giants. He is 0-1 this yr in two appearances vs. them, permitting 4 earned runs over 10 2/3 innings.
–Discipline Stage Media