Padres 6-4 Orioles (Jul 27, 2024) Game Recap

BALTIMORE — — Jurickson Profar hit a pair of two-run home runs, the second of which broke a ninth-inning tie, to give the San Diego Padres their sixth straight victory, a 6-4 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.

Profar’s second drive with two outs was the latest misstep by Orioles closer Craig Kimbrel (6-3), who has blown saves in two of his previous three appearances and was booed by the Baltimore crowd after his inning on Friday.

The Orioles had just scored two runs in the eighth inning to tie the game at 4-4 when Kimbrel came on, allowing a one-out single and Profar’s 18th home run of the year.

Profar also went deep during a four-run sixth for the Padres, who are riding their longest winning streak of the year. A day after San Diego’s Dylan Cease threw a no-hitter at Washington, the Padres took the mound with a committee approach, with eight pitchers. Robert Suarez (5-1) got the final five outs.

Baltimore’s Grayson Rodriguez shut out the inning, but Luis Arraez singled to lead off the inning and Profar followed with a home run. Burch Smith came in relief and retired Jake Cronenworth with a deep fly ball, but shortstop Gunnar Henderson made a throwing error on ex-Oriole Manny Machado’s routine grounder.

Xander Bogaerts followed with a drive to deep left, and Heston Kjerstad got a glove on it in front of the big wall at Camden Yards, but he couldn’t hold on. That double gave San Diego a 3-2 lead. Jackson Merrill followed with an RBI double.

Anthony Santander hit his 29th home run of the season in the eighth inning to make it 4-3. Ryan O’Hearn followed with a double and one out later Kjerstad beat an infield chopper.

Suarez stepped up and allowed an equalising sacrifice fly from Ryan Mountcastle. It was only the third blown save in 26 chances for Suarez.

Jordan Westburg opened the scoring with a solo home run in the second inning and an errant pitch by San Diego starter Adam Mazur gave the Orioles a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning.

Baltimore traded reliever Seranthony Domínguez, outfielder Cristian Pache and starting pitcher Zach Eflin earlier in the day. Domínguez pitched a scoreless eighth inning, allowing two hits. Pache pinch-ran in the eighth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: SS Ha-Seong Kim was upset after hitting an infield single, but stayed in the game.

Orioles: Manager Brandon Hyde said 2B Jorge Mateo (left elbow) has swelling and is waiting for it to go down before getting tested.

NEXT ONE

The Orioles send Dean Kremer (4-6) to the mound on Saturday to face San Diego’s Michael King (8-6).

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