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Padres’ second-inning surge survives Rockies’ relentless rally in 8-7 Coors Field slugfest
At Coors Field, the San Diego Padres built just enough cushion to survive the kind of Colorado Rockies comeback that kept tugging the game back toward even. San Diego won 8-7 because its loudest swings came early, and that margin barely lasted.
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Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado give Padres enough to hold off Giants, 6-4
A game with nine hits on each side usually stays unsettled until the end, and this one did. The difference at Oracle Park was that San Diego’s loudest swings came early and with runners on, giving the Padres a cushion they needed in a 6-4 win over the San Francisco Giants.
READ THE GAME ↗7 — 6Bogaerts’ four-hit night carries Padres past Giants’ four-homer rally in 7-6 Oracle Park escape
For most of Saturday, the San Diego Padres won this game the slow, stubborn way. Then the San Francisco Giants tried to steal it back with one violent inning, leaving a 7-6 finish at Oracle Park that felt much tighter than the Padres’ body of work over nine innings.
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