Scoring runs was not supposed to be a problem for the Padres this year. But, entering Saturday's matinee against the Brewers, the Friars had scored just 11 runs in five games.
Baseball is a funny game.
San Diego's bats erupted for 10 runs on 12 hits in a 10-3 blowout to snap a mini 3-game losing skid. The man of the hour was Jake Cronenworth, who had a pair of 2-run home runs and drove in six runs all by his lonesome. The 2-time All-Star raised his OPS more than 200 points in that game alone.
Xander Bogaerts continued the red-hot start to his Padres career with a 3-hit day. San Diego's new shortstop is sitting in the top-10 in the league in pretty much every major offensive category, something we were kind of expecting out of outfielder Juan Soto. The slugger didn't have a hit and saw his average drop to .182 but is still impacting the game with his eye. Soto walked three times and scored three runs.
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The Padres are back to .500 at 8-8 and can split the series with Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon when Yu Darvish takes the mound against Wade Miley.
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