Slade Cecconi's rocky outing, anemic offense, doom the D-backs
Slade Cecconi came into tonight with a stellar 2.25 ERA through two starts. He left the game with that number more than doubled to 4.96 as the D-backs lost to the Padres 7-1. The loss dropped the Diamondbacks record to 14-19 and suddenly their season seems to be spiraling out of control.
By the time Cecconi got back to the top of the order his velocity had begun to drop to about 92-93 and his command was slipping. Jurickson Profar worked an eight pitch walk. Then on the second pitch to Fernando Tatis Jr., Cecconi put a 92 MPH fastball right in the middle plate. 419 feet later the Padres had a 2-0 lead. A hung changeup to Jake Cronenworth followed and that pitch was knocked over the wall in right for back to back homers.
Cecconi was relieved by Matt Bowman who was making his Diamondbacks debut. Arriving just a few hours before the game after, Bowman was thrown right into the middle of a Padres rally. It was an inauspicious beginning, as he gave up a two-run bomb to Machado running the Padres tally up to 7-0. Dylan Cease continued his strong season for the Padres by holding the D-backs lineup in check, allowing just one run on three hits through 6.2 innings of work. Eugenio Suarez drove in Joc Pederson with a single for the lone run. Cease didn't walk a batter and struck out six, lowering his ERA to 2.55 and improving his record to 4-2.
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