Eight-run inning propels Padres past Giants
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wil Myers crushed a three-run home run to cap an eight-run sixth inning Saturday night that allowed the San Diego Padres to erase a deficit en route to a 12-4 triumph over the San Francisco Giants.
Allen Cordoba added a three-run homer of his own as part of a 14-hit attack that allowed the Padres to put up a season-best run total and even the three-game series after having lost the opener 4-3 on Friday night.
The Padres exploded against the San Francisco bullpen after Giants starter Matt Cain had pitched five innings of one-run ball and left with a 3-1 lead.
A run-scoring double by Ryan Schimpf and an RBI single by Austin Hedges drew the Padres even against Giants right-hander Chris Stratton (0-1).
After Stratton walked Erick Aybar to load the bases, he was replaced by right-hander Neil Ramirez, who proceeded to walk pinch hitter Hector Sanchez to force in the tie-breaking run.
Manuel Margot's single and Cory Spangenberg's fielder's choice grounder produced two more runs, before Myers unleashed a rocket two-thirds of the way up the left-field bleachers at AT&T Park, increasing the San Diego lead to 9-3.
The homer was Myers' sixth of the season.
Cordoba's home run, his second, also came against Ramirez and made it a 12-4 game an inning later.
Right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (3-3), lifted for a pinch hitter during the big sixth inning, got the win. He allowed three runs and five hits in his five innings.
Myers had three hits and Schimpf scored three runs for the Padres, who had lost six of their previous seven games overall and eight of their last nine on the road.
Schimpf, Hedges, Aybar, Margot and Yangervis Solarte had two hits apiece in San Diego's second win in six games on their current trip.
Conor Gillaspie had a double, single and two runs scored, and Eduardo Nunez collected a pair of hits for the Giants, who haven't won consecutive games since April 9-10.
NOTES: The Padres hadn't scored more than eight runs in any previous game this season and had totaled just 10 runs in the sixth inning of their first 25 games. ... San Diego's previous high for runs in an inning this season had been five in the ninth in an 8-5 win Wednesday at Arizona. ... The Giants have given up five or more runs in an inning four times this season. ... San Francisco's 12 runs allowed equaled a season high. ... The St. Louis Cardinals announced Friday that Padres bench coach Mark McGwire will be inducted into the franchise's Hall of Fame. The ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 26 and will also honor C Tim McCarver and 3B/OF Pepper Martin. ... Before the game, the Giants reinstated SS Brandon Crawford (groin) from the bereavement list and immediately placed him on the 10-day disabled list, retroactive to Wednesday.