Max Kepler, Geraldo Perdomo and Nolan Arenado homered Monday night while Brandon Pfaadt sailed through five shutout innings as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks routed the San Diego Padres 8-0.
Pfaadt (2-1) allowed four hits and walked none while striking out six in his second straight win. Two relievers finished up the shutout, teaming up for an eight-hitter.
Walker Buehler (5-5) absorbed his second straight loss, yielding seven hits and seven runs in five innings with a walk and four whiffs. Since beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on June 26, Buehler has permitted 16 runs in nine innings, bumping his ERA up from 3.81 to 5.07.
After snapping an eight-game losing streak Sunday night with a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego trailed just four pitches into this game. Ketel Marte lined a leadoff triple to center and Perdomo was plunked by a pitch.
Perdomo took off for second with Corbin Carroll hitting. Buehler stepped off the rubber and would have gotten an out with an accurate throw but airmailed shortstop Sung-Mun Song for an error that scored Marte.
After a one-out walk to Gabriel Moreno, Kepler slapped a two-out single to left that gave Pfaadt a 2-0 lead before he threw a pitch.
Arizona broke it open in the third with four runs. Carroll doubled with one out, Moreno followed by a single and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. delivered an RBI single. Kepler then bombed a three-run homer to right, his first of the year, that traveled an estimated 417 feet.
Perdomo made it 7-0 in the fourth with his sixth homer that sailed an estimated 377 feet to right. And Arenado started the sixth with his 10th homer of the season, a 361-foot fly ball that bonked off the Western Metal Supply Co. building beyond the left field wall.
San Diego never got a runner into scoring position until Jackson Merrill legged out an infield single to start the seventh and reached second on a one-out groundout by Song. But Rodolfo Duran fanned to end the inning.
–Field Level Media
