Padres walk off with 7-4 win in 10
SAN DIEGO -- Ryan Schimpf, who tied the score with a two-run homer in the eighth inning, hit a three-run walk-off homer with one out in the 10th on Friday night to give the San Diego Padres a 7-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Petco Park.
Yangervis Solarte drew a one-out walk from Diamondbacks left-hander Patrick Corbin. Alex Dickerson followed with a single. Schimpf then drove the first pitch to him from Corbin 409 feet into the right-field stands.
The win was the second straight for the Padres over the Diamondbacks in the four-game series between the worst teams in the National League West.
Right-hander Kevin Quackenbush (7-4), who struck out Jake Lamb with the bases loaded to end the top of the 10th, got the win. Corbin (4-13) took the loss.
The Diamondbacks had taken a 4-2 lead in the top of the eighth on a two-run single by Jean Segura only to have the Padres tie the score in the bottom of the inning on a two-run homer by Schimpf.
The eighth inning followed a trend. Arizona scored single runs in the top of the second and seventh and two in the eighth. The Padres answered with single runs in the bottom of the second and seventh and two runs in the bottom of the eighth. Both two-run hits in the eighth were by the second baseman for each team.
Mitch Haniger and Chris Owings opened the Arizona eighth by drawing back-to-back walks off Ryan Buchter, although Haniger was picked off by the left-handed Padres reliever. Rickie Weeks pinch-hit for Arizona starter Zack Greinke and doubled to put runners on second and third.
Segura greeted Padres reliever Brandon Maurer with a tie-breaking, two-run single.
Yangervis Solarte doubled off right-handed Arizona reliever Enrique Burgos with one out in the bottom of the eighth and scored on Schimpf's 13th homer of the season -- a 395-foot drive to left-center field.
Greinke, who had his nine-decision winning streak stopped by Boston in his previous start, got a no-decision Friday after allowing two runs on seven hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in seven innings.
An extremely wild throw to third by Norris on a double steal allowed the Diamondbacks to snap a 1-1 tie in the top of the seventh.
Jean Segura opened the seventh with a single off Padres reliever Brandon Morrow and was sacrificed to second by Bourn's perfect bunt. After Morrow intentionally walked Paul Goldschmidt, left-handed reliever Brad Hand came on to face left-handed-hitting Arizona third baseman Jake Lamb.
With Lamb at the plate, Segura and Goldschmidt took off on a double steal on a 0-and-1 pitch with Norris opting to throw to third in an attempt to get Segura. But his throw was closer to short than third and Segura easily scored to give the Diamondbacks a 2-1 lead.
The Padres retied the score in the bottom of the seventh.
Bethancourt opened the inning with a single, moved to third on Norris' single and scored on a sacrifice fly by Nick Noonan. Pinch-hitter Alexei Ramirez followed with a single, but Greinke dodged further damage by getting leadoff hitter Travis Jankowski to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The game was a deliberate pitching duel through six innings.
The Diamondbacks struck first in the top of the second against Padres right-handed starter Jarred Cosart.
Yasmany Tomas opened the inning with a double to left center, reached third on Welington Castillo's single to right and scored on Chris Owings' one-out, slow-roller single to short.
With runners on first and second and one out, Arizona was in position to do more damage. But Padres first baseman Wil Myers turned an attempted sacrifice bunt by Greinke into a forceout at third and Cosart retired Jean Segura on a grounder to short to end the inning.
Arizona's leadoff runner reached in three of the six innings started by Cosart and the Diamondbackds had at least two baserunners in three innings.
Back-to-back, two-out singles by Mitch Haniger and Owings in the sixth resulted in Cosart's departure with Morrow retiring Greinke on a broken-bat grounder to second. Cosart allowed one run, eight hits and two walks with seven strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.
The Padres scored in the bottom of the second off Greinke. Ryan Schimpf hit a one-out double into the right-field corner and came home on Christian Bethancourt's broken-bat single just over the head of Segura at second base.
NOTES: The Diamondbacks have moved the rehab assignment of OF A.J. Pollock from Class A Visalia to Triple-A Reno, where he is expected to play Saturday. ... Padres RF Jabari Blash missed a third straight start Friday night due to a jammed ring finger on his left hand. He can play defense, but he can't hit. ... Both teams are going with four position players on their bench. ... The Padres will stick with a six-man rotation through Aug. 24 before they have two days off in a span of five days.