Padres fans got to see a triple play on Sunday, the first one ever at Petco Park. But as is so often the case with the Padres a really cool thing is erased by a loss.
The Phillies took a big lead, let it get away, got it back due to an error, and erased San Diego’s final legitimate scoring threat in a 6-5 win. Philadelphia took two of three games in the weekend series.
Philly scored four times in the 4th inning when they reeled off five straight hits with two outs against Padres starter Jarred Cosart. That hits barrage put the Fightin’ Phils up 5-1. San Diego got one back in the bottom of the 4th when Poway native Alex Dickerson went deep again, a solo job to cut the lead to 5-2. Dickerson has hit a home run in five of his last nine starts.
In the 6th innings Dickerson added a sacrifice fly that scored Travis Jankowski. Then fellow rookie Ryan Schimpf pulled one in to the Petco Porch down the right field line, his 10th dinger of the year to tie the game 5-5.
In the top of the 7th inning Cesar Hernandez hit a routine ground ball to shortstop but rookie Jose Rondon’s throw sailed high. The error put Hernandez on 2nd base and a few batters later Tommy Joseph brought him in with a base hit to put the Phillies back on top 6-5.
In the bottom half of the inning the Friars put the first two runners on with a pair of walks. Jabari Blash came on to pinch-hit and got a pitch on the hands. He grounded it down the 3rd base line to Maikel Franco, who picked up the ball, stepped on the bag and started a 5-4-3 triple play.
The Padres take Monday off then start a 3-game series on Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
