Manny Machado’s first-pitch single in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night lifted the San Diego Padres to a 7-6 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves.
With Jackson Merrill the automatic runner on second base to start the inning, Machado stroked a fastball from Raisel Iglesias (0-2) up the middle, and Merrill hustled home to end the game.
Mason Miller (2-1) pitched two perfect innings to earn the win, stranding the potential go-ahead run on third in the 10th as he retired Eli White on a grounder to short.
After the teams combined for just 11 hits Monday night in a 1-0 San Diego win, they teamed for eight during a second inning that lasted 42 minutes. The frame featured 87 pitches and included nine runs.
Atlanta touched Griffin Canning, scheduled to be the Padres’ bulk reliever, for four runs in its half of the inning. Rowdy Tellez grounded a two-run single up the middle, and Michael Harris II (3-for-5) followed two batters later by smacking an RBI double down the right field line. Matt Olson drew a bases-filled walk from Kyle Hart to cap the outburst.
San Diego reached Braves starter JR Ritchie for five runs in its half of the frame. Rodolfo Duran and Sung-Mun Song hit RBI singles to left. Fernando Tatis Jr. laced an RBI double to right, and Samad Taylor (3-for-4) legged out an infield single to tie the game with a throwing error enabling Tatis to score.
The Braves equalized in the fourth when Harris hit a two-out single to right and scored when Ozzie Albies lined a double to left. Atlanta grabbed a 6-5 lead an inning later when Mauricio Dubon cracked a solo homer to left-center, his eighth of the year.
Tatis tied the game in the seventh when he launched his third homer of the season, a leadoff liner to center off Carlos Carrasco that traveled an estimated 410 feet.
That denied Ritchie a win. The rookie right-hander left after five innings, having permitted five hits and five runs (four earned). Ritchie walked four and whiffed seven.
