SAN DIEGO — Rookie Jackson Merrill’s second homer of the day was a game-ending drive off Mason Miller with one out in the ninth inning, and the San Diego Padres beat the Oakla…
SAN DIEGO — Rookie Jackson Merrill’s second homer of the day was a game-ending drive off Mason Miller with one out in the ninth inning, and the San Diego Padres beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 on Wednesday as Fernando Tatis Jr.’s career-high 17-game hitting streak ended.
Merrill was drafted out of high school as a shortstop in 2021. He had a great spring training and made the opening-day roster as the starting center fielder, which was vacated when Trent Grisham was sent to the New York Yankees along with Juan Soto in a blockbuster trade on Dec. 7. Tatis said his mindset was “Just having a good at-bat. It’s baseball. To help the team. I was just playing baseball the right way. The right way about this game is the ‘W’ at the end and that helps a little bit for us to win.”
“The talent that we have, it’s almost expected,” King said. “The games where it’s not there, you come in and you’re shocked we didn’t put up a 450-foot home run. You think about all the guys we have, the talent that we have, and the two guys that did it were the two that you probably weren’t expecting to hit home runs today. One through nine in this order is dangerous and it’s fun when they’re all clicking.”The A’s opened the sixth with five straight singles and then a walk.
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