San Diego Padres at Boston Red Sox

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San Diego Padres

46-41, 22-19 Away

Final
11 - 1

Boston Red Sox

43-40, 19-24 Home

Manny Machado homers twice, drives in 5 as Padres roll past Red Sox for 2nd straight day, 11-1

It was the fifth straight win and ninth in 10 games for surging San Diego (46-41), which improved to a season-high five games over .500.

Jarren Duran hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who lost their third straight.

Machado recorded his 40th career multihomer game, hitting a two-run drive completely out of Fenway Park in the third inning and a three-run shot to center during a six-run fifth.

When he rounded the bases after his second homer that made it 8-0, chants of “Manny! Manny!” echoed around Fenway from the many Padres fans.

“Yeah, I heard it coming in. A lot of Padres fans here,” he said, breaking into a smile. “It's kind of weird to see it in Boston. I played here quite a bit and it's kind of tough. ... It was great to see a lot of yellow out there and hearing myself and the (Ha-Seong) Kim chants and the Jackson chants.”

Boston starter Tanner Houck (7-6) was tagged for a career-worst eight runs, seven earned, in 4 1/3 innings on his 28th birthday. He also gave up a career-high three homers, raising his ERA from an AL-best 2.18 entering the day to 2.67.

“Just left too many pitches middle,” he said. “With all my pitches.”

For the second straight game, the Padres used a big fifth inning to take charge. Their six-run inning made it 10-0.

“The great ones have bad games, right," Boston manager Alex Cora said of Houck. “Today the slider wasn't great. They put some good at-bats. Manny got two sliders in the zone and put good swings on it. They're a good offensive club and did a good job against him.”

On Friday, they scored all their runs in the fifth of a 9-2 victory. The Padres secured just their second series win in nine tries against the Red Sox.

“We're just looking for continual improvement,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “When you get continual improvement, you get all areas firing together and you get guys working together, communicating together and really playing together.”

Michael King (6-5) rebounded from a rough start in his previous outing, giving up one run and five hits over six innings. He allowed five runs over six in his last start, taking the loss last Sunday against Milwaukee.

Merrill homered into the Monster seats to make it 4-0 in the fourth and Sullivan hit his first of the season, a two-run drive off Bailey Horn that hooked inside the Pesky Pole making it 10-0 in the fifth.

Boston first baseman Dominic Smith pitched a scoreless ninth, allowing only a single to Luis Arraez on a 31.9 mph pitch.

Wearing their City Connect bright-yellow and powder-blue uniforms didn’t help the Red Sox, who were 18-5 over the last two seasons wearing their alternate look.

It’s the first time the teams have met in a series in Fenway since 2013.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: Shildt said, “there’s an expectation, there’s a good chance,” that RHP Randy Vásquez won’t miss his next start. Vásquez started Friday’s victory but had to leave after Ceddanne Rafaela’s comebacker hit him on his pitching arm. “Nothing fractural, nothing serious there. Some swelling, some soreness,” Shildt said. “Outside of maybe missing a little sleep because he sleeps on that right side, he said he feels OK.”

Red Sox: Cora said Triston Casas (left rib ) was just feeling “general soreness” after taking 30 swings a day earlier.

RHP Matt Waldron (5-6, 3.43 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Padres in Sunday’s finale of the three-game series. RHP Josh Winckowski (1-1, 3.26) is slated to make a spot start for the Red Sox.

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Matchup Prediction

Red Sox: 55.1%

Padres: 44.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Valdez fouled out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Wong fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	McGuire walked.
	9th Inning	Devers struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	De Los Santos relieved Davis
	9th Inning	Wade lined out to center.

Statistics

SD		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
16	Ground Balls	8
8	Strikeouts	11
10	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
16	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
11	Runs	1
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
44	At Bats	31
4	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
20	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
163	Pitches	145
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
30	Total Bases	11
47	Plate Appearances	34
648.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
6	Extra Base Hits	3
11.1	Runs Created	2.2
.364	Batting Average	.194
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.682	Slugging Percentage	.355
.386	Secondary Average	.226
.404	On Base Percentage	.265
1.086	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.620
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
10.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.2
74.0	Batter Rating	17.0
11.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.47	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.26
.318	Isolated Power	.161
0.38	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.18
.064	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
.023	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
21.0	Runs Produced	2.0
0.9	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
117.8	MLB Rating	69.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0