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 Alexi Amarista added an RBI for the Padres, who finished 48-33 at
home and a major league-best 28-1 when scoring four or more runs at
Petco. Wieland (1-0), who returned this season after undergoing
Tommy John surgery in 2012, allowed three runs, three hits and three
walks while striking out five in 5 1/3 innings.
Charlie Blackmon homered while Michael Cuddyer and Corey Dickerson
also drove in runs for Colorado, which is a major league-worst 21-57
on the road and 2-13 in their last 15 such games. Yohan Flande (0-6)
yielded four runs, four hits and struck out four in four innings of
the final start of his rookie season.
Blackmon led off the game by bashing a 1-2 pitch out to right for
his 19th home run of the year and sixth on the road. San Diego
quickly responded as Yangervis Solarte started the bottom of the
frame with a double and, after Yasmani Grandal was hit by a pitch
with two out, Medica crushed a 1-2 offering on a line into the first
deck of the Western Metal Supply Co. building in left - his ninth
homer - to put the Padres on top 3-1.
San Diego increased its lead in the fourth when a fielder's choice
grounder by Amarista scored Grandal, who led off with a single and
moved to third on Medica's double that was originally ruled foul but
overturned after a video review. Wieland departed after walking
Justin Morneau in the fifth, and Cuddyer and Dickerson greeted R.J.
Alvarez with run-scoring singles before Alvarez escaped further
trouble by retiring Wilin Rosario and Josh Rutledge.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: The Padres' Joaquin Benoit pitched a perfect ninth
inning to earn his 10th save in 11 chances. ... Morneau went 0-for-3
to lower his National League-leading average to .317, one point
better than Pittsburgh's Josh Harrison and four ahead of the
Pirates' Andrew McCutchen. ... San Diego improved to a major
league-best 33-20 in one-run games. ... Colorado won the season
series 10-9.
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