Team drives in seven runs with two outs against NL Central leaders to show potential for an offense about to regain Fernando Tatis Jr.
in on-base-plus-slugging numbers and had grounded into more double plays than all but one team in baseball.
Struggling infielder Jake Cronenworth, who was hitting .196 this season with four extra-base hits, drove in runs in four of his five trips to the plate on a single, two homers and an RBI walk. The small-sample-size bump pushed him to .240 and sent his on-base-plus-slugging total rocketing nearly 200 points, to .841.
Cruz alone delivered a clinic on diversified scoring production. He singled in that run with two gone in the first, drove in Juan Soto with a sacrifice fly in the seventh and walked in a third in the eighth. The showing part has been the thing. Against the Brewers, the Padres started three innings with two outs. In all three, they breathed life into the slow starts to dig out runs.“We’ve got to sustain it, right?” Melvin said. “We’ve got to do it more.”
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