RECAP: Padres 10, White Sox 4
- Updated: March 23, 2015
Matt Kemp and the Padres took on the Chicago White Sox this afternoon in Peoria (Image via Twitter)
A bases loaded double by Cameron Maybin broke open a scoreless game in the fifth inning and gave the Padres a cushion that turned into a 10-4 victory against the visiting Chicago White Sox in Peoria on Monday afternoon.
Tyson Ross toed the rubber for the Padres in the day game, and was sharp early as neither team got anything going to lead off the afternoon. Ross and White Sox starter Jose Quintana traded zeros to start, with both offenses slow to wake up on an early Monday first pitch.
After four and a half scoreless frames, the Padres loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the fifth on Quintana. Maybin’s double scored two, with Alexi Amarista thrown out at home on the play. Nevertheless, the Padres finally broke through for the first lead of the day, and Quintana’s day was done after a Yonder Alonso single brought home Maybin to give the Padres a 3-0 lead.
The Padres pushed two more across in the inning when Matt Kemp doubled to bring home Alonso, and Carlos Quentin singled to drive in Kemp off reliever Jake Petricka, pushing the lead to 5-0 and breaking the game wide open.
Ross left as the beneficiary of that lead, throwing five scoreless innings and allowing only one hit and one walk against five strikeouts, lowering his spring ERA to 2.84 in the process.
After Kevin Quackenbush threw a scoreless sixth inning, the White Sox got a run back in the seventh off Joaquin Benoit when Emilio Bonifacio scored on an Alexei Ramirez double to cut the lead to 5-1, Padres.
In the bottom of the seventh, Cory Spangenberg put the game out of reach with a bases clearing three-run triple to center field off reliever Frankie Montas, scoring Jake Goebbert, Abraham Almonte and Rocky Gale.
A Goebbert double – the 14th Padre hit of the game – in the bottom of the eighth scored Mike McCoy and extended the lead to 9-1 off Sox reliever Daniel Webb. Goebbert then scored on an Almonte sacrifice fly to give the Padres double-digit runs on the afternoon.
After Quackenbush and Benoit, Dale Thayer worked a scoreless eighth inning. In the ninth, Padres reliever Marcos Mateo loaded the bases with two outs and gave up an Andy Wilkins double to make the score 10-4, but eventually worked out of the jam and finished the game.
The Padres finished with ten runs on seventeen hits, while holding the White Sox to four runs on just seven hits.
The Padres return to action against the Mariners tomorrow in Peoria at 1:15 pm PT.
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