Adam Frazier had three RBIs in an eight-run second inning and the San Diego Padres held on for an 8-5 win against the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday to earn a split of the two-game series.
San Diego right-hander Yu Darvish earned the win after dropping seven consecutive decisions for the first time in his major league career.
Darvish (8-9) allowed one run and three hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking one.
The Padres (74-65) moved one game ahead of the Cincinnati Reds for the second National League wild-card position.
Juan Lagares and Jo Adell hit two-run homers to close the gap in the late innings for Los Angeles (69-71).
Angels manager Joe Maddon planned to use a string of relievers, and Mike Mayers (4-5) was the first. He nearly got through the second inning with minimal damage after Frazier doubled in a run and was later thrown out at home for the second out of the inning.
Sam Selman replaced Mayers, but couldn’t get the final out of the inning, surrendering a hit batter, an RBI single by Jake Cronenworth and the first of four straight walks by the Angels.
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Jake Petricka replaced Selman and walked three straight batters with the bases loaded to make it 5-0.
A wild pitch by Petricka brought home another run before Frazier grounded a two-run single through the right side to make it 8-0.
Brandon Marsh tripled to start the fourth for Los Angeles. He came home on a fielding error by third baseman Manny Machado to make it 8-1.
Dinelson Lamet took over for Darvish in the seventh and gave up a two-run homer to Lagares to make it 8-3.
Adell, who broke up a no-hit bid by Blake Snell with a two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning on Tuesday in a 4-0 Los Angeles win, hit an opposite-field, two-run homer in the eighth for the game’s final scoring.
–Field Level Media