Padres rally to beat Orioles
BALTIMORE -- Matt Kemp finished with four hits, and Derek Norris homered and drew a key bases-loaded walk as the San Diego Padres rallied for a 10-7 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night.
Baltimore held a 6-3 lead heading into the seventh when its bullpen and defense faltered. Three walks, a wild pitch and an error helped San Diego score four runs and take a 7-6 lead.
Kemp (4-for-6, two RBIs) began the seventh with a double against Mychal Givens and slowed at third base, but he scored when Orioles right fielder Mark Trumbo booted Yangervis Solarte's single.
Norris (two RBIs), who had homered earlier, later walked with the bases loaded to cut the lead to one. Melvin Upton Jr. tied the game by scoring when reliever Oliver Drake threw a wild pitch to Christian Bethancourt on his first pitch in the majors this season.
Bethancourt followed with a slow grounder to second that Jonathan Schoop momentarily bobbled but recovered in time to make the play. But Ryan Schimpf scored from third on the play with the go-ahead run.
Givens (5-1) faced five batters and didn't record an out, allowing four runs on three hits with two walks. Orioles starter Tyler Wilson left after six innings with that three-run lead but Givens struggled.
The Padres (30-42) added some insurance with three runs in the ninth off closer Zach Britton. Alexei Ramirez (RBI single), Travis Jankowski (squeeze bunt) and Kemp (RBI single) each drove in runs.
Britton had allowed just three runs all season before this game.
San Diego now has won three straight, and its bullpen helped slam the door on the Baltimore offense after starter Luis Perdomo allowed six runs in five innings.
Kevin Quackenbush (5-3) and Brad Hand both threw a shutout inning, and Ryan Buchter added two-thirds of an inning before Fernando Rodney came on with two outs and the bases loaded and recorded the final four outs for his 15th save.
Rodney allowed his first earned run of the season in the ninth inning.
Baltimore (40-30) got much of its offense thanks to a pair of two-run homers from Pedro Alvarez (five RBIs). Adam Jones and Hyun Soo Kim also each drove in a run.
The Padres manufactured a run in the first to take a quick lead after a 38-minute rain delay. Travis Jankowski started the game with a single, stole second and scored on Kemp's one-out bloop single to right.
Baltimore answered with two runs on a two-out rally in the third. Jones tied the game with an RBI double before Kim singled and gave the Orioles a 2-1 lead.
San Diego tied it when Norris led off the fourth with a homer to left. The Padres took a 3-2 lead later in the inning on a Wil Myers RBI single.
That lead did not last long either, as Alvarez lined a two-run homer to left in the bottom of the fourth after Schoop's lead-off single.
Alvarez struck again in the fifth with his second two-run homer, extending Baltimore's lead to 6-3.
NOTES: The Orioles recalled RHP Oliver Drake from Triple-A Norfolk and outrighted IF Paul Janish back to the same team. Drake has 10 saves with 2.02 ERA in 27 games with the Tides this year. Janish will have three days to decide if he'll take the assignment. If not, he becomes a free agent. ... This will be the Orioles' first interleague game and series in 2016. Baltimore is the last major league team to play an interleague game. ... OF Jon Jay was not in the San Diego lineup due to his injured forearm -- he was hit by Washington LHP Gio Gonzalez during Sunday's game and came out afterward -- and manager Andy Green said they'll take another look at him Wednesday. But Green thinks it's "a little early" to worry about this becoming more of a long-term situation. ... The Padres came into this game with a .285 average in June, the best in the National League. They were averaging 5.4 runs per game.