Top NL Cy Young Award contender Zac Gallen beat the San Diego Padres for the second straight start and Tommy Pham and Gabriel Moreno homered to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-1 victory in the opener of a four-game series between teams trying to keep their wild-card hopes from slipping away.
Arizona came into the night 1 1/2 games out of the third wild-card spot, while the Padres were 4 1/2 back. The Diamondbacks had been seven games above .500 on July 31 before losing nine straight games, including the opener of a three-game series against the Padres in Phoenix last weekend. They won the next two against the Padres and then took two of three at Colorado.
The Padres took two of three against the AL-leading Baltimore Orioles earlier this week but have failed to play up to the expectations that come with having baseball’s third-highest payroll and making it to the NL Championship Series last fall. Rich Hill , a 34-year-old lefty acquired from Pittsburgh at the trade deadline, lost his third straight start for the Padres. He retired the first 10 Diamondbacks batters before walking Corbin Carroll with one out in the fourth. Pham then drove the next pitch to center field, his 12th.
It was Pham’s fifth homer against the Padres in 15 games since the start of the 2022 season. He was with the Padres in 2020-21. Moreno sent a drive into the home run porch in the right field corner leading off the fifth, his fourth.The Padres broke through against Gallen in the fifth. Cronenworth sent a drive to deep center that bounced off Alek Thomas’ glove as he and Pham, the left fielder, nearly collided. He scored on Trent Grisham’s single.With Hurricane Hilary moving up Mexico’s Pacific coast, both teams are keeping an eye on the forecast for the weekend, particularly Sunday.
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