San Diego Padres at St. Louis Cardinals

· Major League Baseball

San Diego Padres

76-58, 39-26 Away

Final
7 - 5

St. Louis Cardinals

65-67, 34-32 Home

Cronenworth gets key hit as Padres rally past Cardinals 7-5 for 3rd straight win

Manny Machado homered for San Diego, and Luis Arraez had three hits. Yuki Matsui (4-2) pitched an inning for the win, and Tanner Scott handled the ninth for his 20th save in 22 chances.

Padres right-hander Dylan Cease threw 96 pitches in 4 1/3 innings on a night when the gametime temperature was announced at 98 degrees. He was charged with four runs and seven hits.

“It was hot, but it wasn't something that was on my mind or anything like that.” Cease said. “I was just out of sync today. I have to figure out the way I was and get back to it.”

Paul Goldschmidt homered for St. Louis in its third loss in four games. Miles Mikolas permitted four runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings.

The Cardinals scored three runs in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. Lars Nootbaar chased Cease with an RBI single before Goldschmidt greeted Bryan Hoeing with a two-run shot to left-center for his 20th homer.

“I felt like our approach was good," Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said about Cease. "We did a lot of good things but that extra push got him off the hook. I felt like several times you could have buried him at one point in that game and created a big enough gap where it's difficult for them to come back. I felt like our inability to come through in that situation was tough.”

The Padres responded in the seventh. Mason McCoy walked and advanced to second on Arraez's single before taking third as part of a double steal. McCoy scampered home on Jurickson Profar's sacrifice fly, and Arraez scored on Cronenworth's hit on the ninth pitch of his at-bat against lefty John King (3-3).

“I trust him,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said of Cronenworth, who bats from the left side. “You know he's going to take a quality at-bat. He wants big moments. So it was either Croney versus a guy that has been out and coming back out versus a guy coming in fresh and (Donovan) Solano.”

Machado led off San Diego’s four-run second with his 22nd homer. It was his ninth homer in his last 27 games.

Jackson Merrill doubled and scored on Luis Campusano’s single. McCoy drove in David Peralta with a groundout, and Arraez singled home Campusano for a 4-2 lead.

“The team's grinding,” Merrill said. “We don't want to lose, and whatever it takes."

The Cardinals had jumped in front with two runs in the first. Masyn Winn scored on a wild pitch from Cease, and Luken Baker added a sacrifice fly.

ROSTER MOVES

The Cardinals recalled right-hander Riley O’Brien from Triple-A Memphis and designated right-hander Shawn Armstrong for assignment. Armstrong went 1-0 with a 2.84 ERA in 11 appearances after being acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay for outfielder Dylan Carlson on July 30.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: OF Fernando Tatis Jr. (right femoral stress reaction) is taking at-bats in simulated games at the club’s complex in Arizona.

Cardinals: OF Michael Siani (strained right oblique) started in center field and went 0 for 3 for Double-A Springfield in the first game of a rehabilitation assignment. ... LHP Steven Matz (lower back strain) threw 65 pitches in a rehab start for Triple-A Memphis, allowing four runs, two earned, in three innings.

Padres RHP Joe Musgrove (4-4, 4.43 ERA) will face Cardinals RHP Andre Pallante (6-6, 3.84 ERA) on Wednesday night.

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Matchup Prediction

Cardinals: 40.0%

Padres: 60.0%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Arenado grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Arenado hit for Nootbaar
	9th Inning	Herrera grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Donovan grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Scott relieved Adam
	9th Inning	Profar flied out to center.

Statistics

SD		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	17
4	Strikeouts	8
6	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	11
2	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
35	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	21
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	3
22	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
143	Pitches	167
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	17
38	Plate Appearances	42
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	4
5.0	Runs Created	6.7
.286	Batting Average	.306
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.429	Slugging Percentage	.472
.257	Secondary Average	.333
.316	On Base Percentage	.381
.744	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.853
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.4
5.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.7
45.0	Batter Rating	39.0
35.0	At Bats Per Home Run	36.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.76	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.98
.143	Isolated Power	.167
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.63
.053	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.119
-.029	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.028
13.0	Runs Produced	9.0
0.9	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
91.0	MLB Rating	89.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0