The short-handed Padres struggled to stay with San Francisco Tuesday as they opened up a 6-game homestand.
Two Giants in particular thwarted the Padres efforts and helped the visitors pick up a 5-1 victory at Petco Park.
Brandon Crawford collected 5 RBI on a 3-run homer, a sacrifice fly and a double.
Other than Crawford’s 3-run bomb in the 2nd inning, Padres starter Colin Rea held the Giants to just 3 other hits in 5 innings.
Tempers flared at the end of the 3rd inning when Giants starter Madison Bumgarner struck out Wil Myers.
Words were exchanged and Bumgarner appeared to be offended with Myers as he started to walk off the mound.
Both dugouts cleared and the pitchers even came racing in from the bullpens, but no punches were thrown and no suspensions are expected.
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Bumgarner wound up going the distance, finishing with a complete game and 11 strikeouts. He only allowed 5 hits.
One of those was by Matt Kemp. The rightfielder smashed his 10th homer of the season to help the Padres avoid the shutout.
It looked like the Padres were headed to their 10th shutout of the year when Kemp drove an 0-2 offering from Bumgarner off the West Metal Supply Company building. But that was the extent of the Padres offense on this night.
Padres reliever Tayron Guerrero also made his Major League debut in the 8th and gave up one run in 2 innings of work.
San Diego continues its string of 12 straight games against division opponents when Drew Pomeranz opposes San Francisco’s Johnny Cueto at 7:10 p.m.
