A line drive that caromed off Manny Machado’s glove, an error by Eric Hosmer, a single dribbled 35 feet off the end of a bat, another play that could have been made by Hosmer.
These things brought Joe Musgrove’s Saturday night to an end in the fifth inning and got the Colorado Rockies on their way to a 3-0 victory over the Padres at sold-out Petco Park. (Box score.)
“We felt Joe and our pitching staff threw well enough to (win),” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said. “We just didn’t make some plays defensively … and offensively couldn’t get enough done to cross the dish. We got beat in a lot of facets of the game tonight.”
The Padres got virtually nothing going against German Márquez, who continued a stellar run up to his first All-Star appearance by throwing seven shutout innings.
“He was throwing the ball well,” Machado said. “Everything was moving. He was commanding his pitches. It was a tough game for us offensively. There’s going to be days like that. He brought his best out today He’s been bringing it out the last couple starts. We saw it tonight.”
Musgrove was attempting to stem a skid in which he allowed five runs in both of his previous two starts, and he was on his way through four scoreless innings.
He was helped by the defense early, as Tommy Pham made a sliding catch and Jake Cronenworth dove to turn a what would have been a run-scoring single into an out in the first inning. Trent Grisham made a running catch in the left-field gap to start the fifth.
Then Márquez lined a one-out single that got past Machado. Hosmer mishandled Raimel Tapia’s grounder, putting runners at first and second. Garrett Hampson reached on a grounder sent halfway up the third base line that loaded the bases. Hosmer’s rough inning continued when his dive failed to prevent Charlie Blackmon’s grounder from becoming a two-run single.
“Hos makes that play nine out of 10 times,” Musgrove said. “I had a chance to get out of it. I just didn’t execute pitches that well. … The defense saved me for the majority of that outing, for the first couple innings at least. You can’t expect those great plays to happen and be pissed off when they don’t make a play behind me.”
The Rockies added a run against Pierce Johnson in the seventh inning.
Márquez has allowed three runs on 12 hits over 36 innings in his past five starts.
Hosmer’s two-out double to left field in the second inning, Victor Caratini’s lead-off single in the third and Jake Cronenworth’s single leading off the seventh were the only hits off Márquez. Tommy Pham drew a one-out walk in the sixth but was caught stealing.
With Carlos Estevez having replaced Márquez, Hosmer led off the bottom of the eighth with another double and Caratini lined a one-out single to left before pinch-hitter Brian O’Grady struck out and Pham grounded out.
That was it, as the Padres totaled just five hits, their fewest in seven games.
“Unfortunately, he’s been throwing the ball really well,” Tingler said, “and he continued that tonight.”
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