SAN DIEGO — The native boy made good, however it wasn’t sufficient.
After Spencer Jones put the Yankees forward with a leadoff single within the prime of the tenth towards Padres flamethrower Mason Miller, his homecoming heroics bought spoiled within the backside of the body.
Luis Campusano hit a walk-off two-run shot towards Paul Blackburn to raise the Padres previous the Yankees 3-2 in a playoff-like environment on Friday evening at a sold-out Petco Park.
Blackburn had not allowed a run in his final 13 ¹/₃ innings earlier than Friday evening, or a house run since July 29. However he picked a nasty time to snap each streaks, leaving a first-pitch sinker over the center of the plate with one out that Campusano crushed to left subject to finish it.
Jones had led off the highest of the tenth with a single on Miller’s 100 mph fastball that put the Yankees up 2-1, however was later thrown out making an attempt to steal third.
On an evening once they misplaced Trent Grisham to a proper hamstring harm, the Yankees (80-61) fell to 4 video games again of the Rays for the division with 21 video games to play, with the Pink Sox shifting inside 3 ¹/₂ video games of them for the highest AL wild card.
Max Fried was sharp in his second begin again from the injured record for a recurrence of his left elbow bone bruise, constructing as much as 72 pitches throughout 5 ²/₃ innings of one-run ball. The left-hander pounded the strike zone, permitting him to be environment friendly and get deeper into the sport regardless of the restricted pitch rely.
With the Yankees shifting their pitching round to benefit from off days Thursday and Monday, Will Warren piggybacked Fried for his second aid look of the season and was equally robust. The appropriate-hander tossed 2 ¹/₃ scoreless innings, permitting only one base runner earlier than handing off to David Bednar to begin the underside of the ninth.
However the Padres bullpen matched with zeroes in aid of Walker Buehler, together with lefty Adrian Morejon and Miller — who had been related to the Yankees main as much as the commerce deadline earlier than each remained in San Diego. Morejon struck out the facet within the eighth inning earlier than Miller retired the facet within the ninth with two extra punchouts, one on a 102 mph heater to Cody Bellinger.
The Padres (74-67) then almost gained it within the backside of the ninth when the profitable run bought to 3rd on a double and a handed ball from Austin Wells. However Bednar struck out Austin Hays to ship it to extras.
The Padres struck first on a play that in the end led to Grisham exiting the sport. Ty France led off the underside of the second with a double after which moved to 3rd on a sacrifice bunt. Xander Bogaerts got here up with two outs and hit a 255-foot bloop to middle subject that Grisham, whose beginning depth was 332 ft, couldn’t monitor down in time, trying like he was unable to get into one other gear.
The ball landed to place the Padres up 1-0 and after the inning ended, Grisham returned to the dugout and tapped a coach on the again earlier than taking place the steps with him to the clubhouse and never returning.
Within the meantime, Ben Rice tied the sport within the prime of the third when he clobbered a 444-foot shot to the batter’s eye off Buehler. Rice’s thirty sixth residence run of the season was his second longest, trailing solely a 447-footer final month in Baltimore.
Fried caught a slight break within the backside of the third when Manny Machado hit a two-out single to left subject and tried to stretch it right into a double. He beat the throw there, however got here off the bag briefly when popping up from his slide whereas Jazz Chisholm Jr. saved the tag on him, ensuing within the third out of the inning.
That, partly, helped Fried go additional than he did in his first begin again from the IL final Saturday, when he threw 63 pitches throughout 3 ²/₃ innings towards the Pink Sox. His four-seam fastball velocity was down in that sport, averaging 93.8 mph, however it ticked again as much as 94.4 (nearer to his season common of 95) on Friday.
Coming into the sport with two outs within the backside of the sixth, Warren walked the primary batter he confronted on 4 pitches earlier than settling in and single-handedly offering the bridge to the ninth inning.
