In his first start since coming off the disabled list, Padres RHP Ian Kennedy gave up eight runs and didn't make it out of the fifth inning in a lopsided loss to the Dodgers. In his second start, he could have done the exact same thing and his team still would have won the game.
The Padres scored 14 runs on 14 hits and, in a true shocker for one of the better defensive teams in baseball, four Rockies errors to beat Colorado 14-3 on Friday night at Petco Park.
After his awful outing last weekend, Ian said he'd, "... figure it out by Friday." He certainly did. Kennedy went 6.0 innings and only allowed two runs, both on solo homers, to get his first win of 2015.
The Rockies started the game with the fourth-best fielding percentage in the league but in this game they came completely unglued. Colorado made three errors in the fourth inning alone, helping the Padres score four times and take a 5-0 lead. Keep in mind, this is a team that had made just 12 errors in 21 full games this year.
Despite the defensive melt down, the Rocks were still alive when the 8th inning started. Then the Padres bats went batty.
The Padres batted around in the 8th before recording a single out. It looked like this:
Walk, walk, bunt single, error, single, single, single, double, single. Will Middlebrooks made the first out of the inning, but it was still a productive one. His sacrifice fly scored Derek Norris with the Padres' 14th and final run of the night.
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