The Padres did to the Giants what the Chiefs did to the Chargers on Sunday.
The second meeting in the three games series continued in San Francisco Tuesday night. The Friars started the series on a good note with a win against the Giants on Monday night with hopes of carrying that over.
Left handed pitcher Clayton Richard was on the mound for the Padres facing Giants righty Albert Suarez.
It was a scoreless game in the third inning until infielder Luis Sardiñas singled to left field and brought in Derek Norris to give the Padres the 1-0 lead.
The Giants responded at the bottom of the inning when outfielder Hunter Pence doubled to deep right field and plated Kelby Tomlinson to tie up the ball game.
In the fifth inning, two more runs capped off by an Angel Pagan homer gave the Giants the 4-1 lead. The score board stayed that way until the ninth inning when the Padres got a sudden change of luck, in this case, a pitcher.
Hunter Strickland was supposed to relieve Will Smith and lock up the win for the Giants. Instead, he allowed the Friars to load the bases and then walked Wil Myers which scored Norris and cut San Francisco’s lead to 4-2.
Local
Up next was Yangervis Solarte who grounded out to the pitcher and brought in Jon Jay which made it a one run ball game. With two men on base Ryan Schimpf added the cherry on top when he blasted a three run homer to center field and put the Padres ahead 6-4.
Kevin Quackenbush was the closer for the Friars. He took the mound and the last three outs of the game. The Padres pulled off the comeback and win the second game of the series 6-4.
The Friars will go for the sweep in San Francisco on Wednesday.
