Luis Arraez stroked three hits, knocking in the tying and go-ahead runs, as the San Diego Padres rallied from a six-run first-inning deficit to top the visiting Miami Marlins 8-6 on Tuesday.
Arraez lined a two-out single up the middle in the fifth, scoring Jake Cronenworth for a 7-6 lead. Cronenworth had led off with a single against Cade Gibson (0-3) and reached second on a single by Fernando Tatis Jr. against Anthony Bender.
Jackson Merrill added insurance in the eighth with a solo homer to right, his fifth of the year. San Diego finished with 13 hits, getting three from Xander Bogaerts as well as two each from Cronenworth and Tatis.
Stephen Kolek (3-1) became the first major league starter since Bartolo Colon in 1999 to give up six earned runs in the first inning and still win. Kolek allowed six hits, five in the first inning, and walked two to go along with three strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
Jeremiah Estrada worked the last 1 1/3 innings for his first save of the year and the second of his career.
Miami starter Max Meyer lasted only 3 1/3 innings, yielding seven hits and six runs, four earned. Meyer walked two and fanned none.
Marlins second baseman Ronny Simon committed three errors in the first four innings and was charged with another before the official scorer gave Bogaerts an RBI single in the third.
Simon was one of four Marlins to collect run-scoring singles in the big first inning. Kyle Stowers, Liam Hicks and Victor Mesa Jr. also knocked in runs with hits, while Connor Norby brought home a run on a fielder’s-choice bouncer and Javier Sanoja lofted a sacrifice fly to cap the rally.
Tatis got a run back right away, lining his fourth leadoff homer of the year and 13th homer overall inside the right field foul pole. The Padres sliced the deficit to 6-3 in the second on Tyler Wade’s RBI single and Simon’s throwing error.
Bogaerts’ run-scoring hit and a sacrifice fly by Cronenworth made it 6-5 after three innings. Arraez singled home Wade with the tying run in the fourth.
–Field Level Media
