Team meeting follows ninth loss in 11 games, which drops Padres to 4 games below .500 as they again cannot capitalize on numerous chances
The cheers inside Petco Park for several big moments Wednesday were as loud as 32,416 could make it.But at the end of another bad loss to a bad team, what was left of the crowd inside the downtown ballpark that has been filled so often this season let the Padres know how they felt with a loud and long serenade.“The way that we’re finishing the game,” Fernando Tatis Jr. said later, “I would boo ourselves too.
“We’re getting opportunities,” Jake Cronenworth said. “That’s not the problem. We have a really good offense. But when it’s time to execute and do the smart things in those big spots, we can’t just expect that it’s going to happen. We need to go out there and do it.”“We’ve just got to do a better job,” Matt Carpenter said of the reason for the clubhouse conferencing. “You can feel the angst from the fans, and we feel it.
“A little bit of a snowball situation kind of happening,” Carpenter said, “where you get an opportunity in a game and guys want it so bad that they take themselves out of the at-bat by doing something that they otherwise normally wouldn’t do.” In earning their 14th victory in 45 games this season, the Royals took a 1-0 lead on a dribbled single, a softly hit groundout and a double against Yu Darvish in the fourth inning. After Cronenworth’s first home run in 28 games and the Padres’ first home run in 38 innings tied the game 1-1, Vinnie Pasquantino’s two-run homer off Darvish put the Royals up 3-1in the sixth. They added a run on back-to-back two-out doubles, driving Darvish from the game in the process.
Juan Soto walked to start the seventh inning against Aroldis Chapman and was at third with one out when Chapman walked Kim and Odor. Grisham followed with his fourth strikeout, and the inning ended when Chapman threw a 96 mph fastball well over the head of catcher Salvador Perez and Soto tried to score, only to have the ball bounce directly back to Perez, who tagged out Soto 10 feet short of the plate.
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