Padres are not having the letdowns they did earlier in the season; Manny Machado is on one of his runs; Brett Sullivan relishes contribution with a homer just inside Pesky’s Pole
Padres reliever Enyel De Los Santos celebrates with catcher Brett Sullivan after getting the final out in Saturday’s victory over the Red Sox. Except maybe showing that they can be who they said they would be.
What is different recently is that they have scored at least five runs in nine of their past 10 games. Before this stretch, they had gone more than two consecutive games scoring five or more runs just twice all season. But No.7 seven hitters win games from time to time. The guys batting in the middle of the order — and especially the ones who make $31 million a year — are there to lift their team to a bunch of wins.Machado’s .331 average and .874 OPS in 36 games since May 19 is not quite at the level of his previous tears.about what he has worked through this season. But what he is doing now is a significant improvement over the .217 average, .611 OPS he had through his first 42 games.
And Sullivan hit his second career home run, 359 feet down the right field line and over the three-foot wall about 15 feet to the fair side of the right field foul pole, which is 302 feet from home plate and is known as Pesky’s Pole. and just try to do what he was doing.” Luis Arraez saw one of the slowest pitches in MLB history yesterday, a 31.9 mph offering from Red Sox first baseman Dom Smith, who was pitching in the ninth inning.After lining Smith’s looping offering into center field for a single, Arraez wasn’t interested in it being the fourth-slowest pitch recorded in the Statcast era . He was just happy to have a hit against a position player.The major leagues’ leading hitter since 2019, with a .
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