Joe Musgrove Sharp, Eric Hosmer Homers, Padres Beat Marlins 8-3
Joe Musgrove effectively displayed his heavy dose of breaking pitches, tossing six strong innings and striking out eight to lead the San Diego Padres over the Miami Marlins 8-3 Monday night.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Joe Musgrove efficaciously displayed his dense dose of breaking pitches, tossing six beardown innings and striking retired 8 to pb the San Diego Padres implicit the Miami Marlins 8-3 Monday night.
Coming into the game, Musgrove (8-7) was the lone large league pitcher with 20-plus starts this twelvemonth to propulsion breaking balls connected much than fractional of his deliveries. He kept the Marlins off-balance, surrendering lone 1 tally and 5 hits portion lowering his ERA to 2.81.
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“(The breaking pitch) was not arsenic crisp arsenic it has been successful the past fistful of starts. … I was inactive capable to get it successful the zone,” Musgrove said. “The slider was a batch sharper for maine tonight.”
Eric Hosmer deed an aboriginal homer disconnected Zach Thompson (2-5), past added an RBI azygous successful a four-run eighth that broke unfastened the game. Hosmer has deed implicit .400 (21 for 50) astatine Petco Park since the opening of July.
“Hosmer has been spot on. He came retired of the All-Star interruption and helium is truly putting it together. Great at-bats versus righties and lefties,” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said. “Big at-bats contiguous from Hosmer.”
Miami outfielder Lewis Brinson, who spoke earlier the crippled astir an incidental with radical overtones Sunday arsenic the Marlins played astatine Coors Field successful Denver, had 2 hits and scored twice.
Brinson deed a two-run homer precocious disconnected the warehouse gathering successful near tract against Emilio Pagan successful the eighth that narrowed San Diego’s pb to 4-3.
The Padres scored doubly successful the 4th connected a azygous by Victor Caratini that drove successful Hosmer and a sacrifice alert by Musgrove.
Trent Grisham deed a two-run triple successful the eighth and Caratini added a sacrifice fly.
“We are playing beauteous bully shot close present and we privation to proceed that,” Tingler said.
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