Marlins manufacture 11th-inning uprising against Padres
SAN DIEGO -- Miami scored two runs in the top of the 11th inning Saturday night on a swinging bunt single and two errors to break a 2-2 tie as the Marlins defeated the San Diego Padres 6-3 at Petco Park.
Pinch hitter Justin Bour led off the inning with a single to center off Padres left-handed rookie reliever Jose Torres.
Dee Gordon then chopped a ball 30 feet up the first base line. Torres fielded the bunt and threw to first. But with first baseman Wil Myers charging the plate, Padres second baseman Yangervis Solarte was late in covering first against the speedy Gordon.
As Torres' throw carried all the way into the right-field corner, Bour raced around to score on the pitcher's throwing error. Gordon kept running and scored when Hunter Renfroe bobbled the ball in the right field corner.
Right-handed reliever Brad Ziegler, who worked out of a jam in the bottom of the 10th, picked up the win in his first decision of the season. A.J. Ramos got his third save. Torres (1-1) took the loss.
Giancarlo Stanton greeted reliever Miguel Diaz with a 378-foot, two-run homer -- his second homer of the game and third in two nights -- to cap a four-run 11th to extend Miami's lead to 6-2.
The Padres scored a run in the bottom of the 11th after failing in the bottom of the ninth and 10th after putting the winning run at second with one out.
In the 10th, third baseman Martin Prado's leaping, two-out catch of an Erick Aybar liner denied the Padres a fourth straight win.
Stanton earlier opened the second inning by drilling the first pitch he saw for his first homer of the game. Stanton, who won the Home Run Derby at Petco Park on the eve of last July's All-Star Game with a record 61 bombs, drove an 84 mph fastball 372 feet to left.
Prado also homered against San Diego right-hander Jered Weaver with one out in the sixth to tie the score 2-2. Prado’s first homer of the season traveled 384 feet.
The homers raised the total allowed by Weaver to seven in four starts. All 10 runs of Weaver's allowed in the first 23 innings of the season came on homers. His game was finished after allowing four hits and a walk with three strikeouts in six innings.
In between the two Miami homers was a two-run homer by Padres catcher Austin Hedges in the bottom of the fourth. It was Hedges' fifth homer in a span of seven games played.
Through 3 1/3 innings, a game-opening double by Manuel Margot and a two-out single by the rookie center fielder in the third were the baserunners allowed by right-handed Miami starter Dan Straily. Yangervis Solarte doubled ahead of Hedges' 370-foot drive to left.
Straily departed after striking out a career-high 14 Padres. Nine of those strikeouts were among the 11 straight hitters he retired after Hedges' home run. Straily allowed four hits and no walks.
NOTES: RHP Luis Perdomo will come off the disabled list Sunday for the Padres to start the finale of the three-game series. Perdomo has been out since his first start with posterior right shoulder inflammation. ... Padres rookie CF Manuel Margot is 8-for-15 with two doubles, a triple, two homers and a walk as the Padres' leadoff hitter this season. ... RHP Dan Straily's career high in strikeouts before Saturday night was 11. ... Straily became only the third pitcher with 14 strikeouts on fewer than 100 pitches, joining Stephen Strasburg (2010) and Javier Vazquez (2003).