Padres' improved offense continues to pile up runs; Joe Musgrove turns in fourth consecutive quality start
A video montage that played on the Petco Park video boards late in games the Padres trailed throughout their first four homestands featured myriad offensive highlights from last season and a compilation of television commentators praising the team’s lineup.
The Padres scored four runs in the first inning, three of them when Gary Sánchez hit his sixth home run in 13 games since being acquired off waivers on May 29. Fernando Tatis Jr. hit his team-leading 13th home run of the season in the second inning. Through their first 46 games, the Padres’ average of 3.8 runs per game was the fifth lowest in the major leagues. They were 20-26 to that point.They probably need to win at a greater clip than that going forward, if they are to qualify for the postseason.The Padres scored four runs in an inning once in their first 46 games, and that was at a tiny ballpark with artificial turf in the thin air of Mexico City.
Josh Bell, who homered three times in 177 at-bats for the Padres last season, got one of those runs back by hitting a high fly ball that cleared the right field wall in the second inning.After Bell’s homer, Musgrove retired nine of the next 10 batters he faced before the Guardians added a run in the fifth on two hard grounders off the gloves of the Padres’ corner infielders.
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