Blake Snell overcomes lack of command to surrender just one run in five innings, but offense can't capitalize on chances and bullpen lets game get away
It was the offense stumbling into the quicksand it had largely avoided recently and a couple relievers fumbling away the bullpen’s resurgence that doomed the Padres to a 4-0 loss Thursday against the Blue Jays.
He threw 106 pitches while going fewer than six innings for the second straight start but just the third time in his past 10 starts.Over the course of his previous 10 starts — since May 25 — Snell led the majors by a wide margin with a 0.62 ERA, .156 average allowed and 91 strikeouts in 58 innings. He threw just six strikes among his 15 first-inning pitches but was able to survive two walks and extend his career-high scoreless streak to 22 innings with some help from a double-play grounder and Sánchez picking off Guerrero at first base.
Kevin Kiermaier’s line drive to left field ended the second inning on Snell’s 39th pitch of the game. He was at 54 pitches after a scoreless third and 76 after an eventful fourth inning in which two infield singles and a walk loaded the bases with one out before Snell struck out Kiermaier and got leadoff batter George Springer on a popup.
Tom Cosgrove began the bottom of the seventh inning by allowing a single to Espinal and a home run to Kirk. Another single followed before Cosgrove recorded his only out. Fellow rookie Alek Jacob entered and retired the next two batters.The Padres got a break in the second inning when Espinal, at second base, booted a grounder by Sánchez that moved Xander Bogaerts, who had singled, to third with one out.
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