Colorado Rockies at San Diego Padres

· Major League Baseball

Colorado Rockies

41-72, 17-43 Away

Final
2 - 10

San Diego Padres

61-52, 30-29 Home

David Peralta hits a homer and robs another as the Padres beat the Rockies 10-2 for a series win

Kyle Higashioka and All-Star Jurickson Profar also homered for the Padres, who had lost five straight games to the Rockies until winning 3-2 on Saturday night. San Diego improved to an MLB-best 11-3 since the All-Star break.

The Rockies had the chance to clinch the season series, which they lead 6-4 with a three-game series remaining in Denver in two weeks. Colorado came into Sunday with the NL's worst record, 41-71.

Knuckleballer Matt Waldron (7-9) pitched 5 2/3 strong innings, holding the Rockies to one run and two hits while striking out seven and walking two. He allowed Brenton Doyle’s homer leading off the fourth, his 19th.

Higashioka homered to left leading off the fifth, his 13th, to give San Diego a 2-1 lead against former Padres left-hander Cal Quantrill (7-8). Profar homered to right with one out, his 19th. It's one shy of his career high.

The Padres then blew it open in the sixth. Justin Lawrence, who relieved Quantrill with one out in the fifth, hit Xander Bogaerts with a pitch opening the inning and walked rookie Jackson Merrill. Peralta then homered to right, his third, for a 6-1 lead.

Peralta got his glove above the wall in right to rob Hilliard of a homer leading off the fifth while Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth each had two hits and two RBI.

“I think both,” Peralta said when asked whether it felt better to hit a homer or rob one. “Anything to do to help the team is good, so today was a good game for the whole team. Great teams find a way to win and that's what we've been doing. We're going to continue to do that.”

He said his big catch “was tough a little bit, and then I was like, ‘I’m going for it.'"

“I think I hit the soft part of the wall because it was kind of tough. But it was good and I was happy I made the play for Waldron,” Peralta said.

Said Waldron: “It was incredible. I didn't know he hit it that far. I thought I got in there enough to get some weak contact, but unbelievable, especially the replay, that's awesome. I'm glad he did that.”

Waldron bounced back from a tough outing against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night, when he allowed five runs in the first inning of a game the Padres rallied to win 6-5 in 10 innings.

“My emphasis was definitely on the first inning,” Waldron said. “I wanted to come out ready to go a little bit better, just give our offense more of a chance and capture the momentum early. Ultimately, just trying to win, whatever that looks like.”

He said his knuckleball “felt great coming out of the hand. When I have a good release point going, it tends to be better, so I feel like that was going.”

The Padres seemed poised for a big second inning against Quantrill but scored only one run, on Merrill's double to right-center. They stranded two runners.

To lead off the seventh for Colorado, Jacob Stallings homered off Adrian Morejon, his seventh.

Quantrill allowed three runs and five hits in 4 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out two.

Quantrill was drafted by the Padres in 2016 and made his big-league debut in 2019 before being sent to Cleveland in 2020 in the Mike Clevinger deal. Waldron was sent to the Padres in November 2020 as the player to be named in that deal.

Quantrill was traded to Colorado in November.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Rockies: DH Charlie Blackmon wasn't in the lineup a second straight game with a bruised left eye after getting hit on the left wrist and face by an errant throw by Padres second baseman Xander Bogaerts on Friday night.

Rockies: LHP Kyle Freeland (3-4, 5.64 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday night in the opener of a home series against the New York Mets, who will go with RHP Luis Severino (7-4, 3.93).

Padres: Haven't announced their starter for Tuesday night when they open a series at the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Matchup Prediction

Padres: 67.5%

Rockies: 32.5%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Goodman struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Toglia struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Stallings singled to left.
	9th Inning	McMahon grounded out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Matsui relieved Estrada
	8th Inning	Bogaerts grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Machado out at second.

Statistics

COL		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
4	Ground Balls	9
12	Strikeouts	4
2	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
5	Hits	12
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	10
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	33
2	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	5
15	Fly Balls	21
0	Caught Stealing	0
117	Pitches	165
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	26
34	Plate Appearances	41
324.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	8
2.6	Runs Created	10.6
.161	Batting Average	.364
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.355	Slugging Percentage	.788
.258	Secondary Average	.636
.235	On Base Percentage	.475
.590	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.263
0.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
2.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	11.9
19.0	Batter Rating	72.0
15.5	At Bats Per Home Run	11.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.44	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.02
.194	Isolated Power	.424
0.17	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.50
.059	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.146
.097	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.273
4.0	Runs Produced	20.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.9
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
70.3	MLB Rating	113.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0