RECAP: Padres 3, Athletics 1
- Updated: June 18, 2015
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Two solo home runs and a strong pitching performance by Ian Kennedy lifted the San Diego Padres to a 3-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics Thursday afternoon in the Bay Area — Pat Murphy’s first win as the new manager of the Friars.
Kennedy went six innings, allowing just one run on only four hits and a walk, while striking out four hitters, on 92 pitches (59 strikes). He earned his fourth win of the year for the Padres, who are now 33-36 after several very difficult games against the A’s earlier in this four game home-and-home series.
The Padres struck first in the fourth inning, when Matt Kemp hit a solo home run off Kendall Graveman to give the Friars a 1-0 lead.
The Padres doubled that lead in the top of the sixth, when Derek Norris hit his own solo homer on a Graveman offering, making it 2-0 heading into the bottom half of the frame.
Norris’ home run turned out to be very important, because in the bottom of the sixth, Josh Phegley hit a solo home run for the A’s to make it a 2-1 game.
That was all the A’s could push across, with Justin Upton‘s sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth inning the final score in a pitcher’s duel of a game.
The Padres salvaged a victory in a series that otherwise had been very difficult for them, losing the first three games of the series after firing manager Bud Black on Monday morning.
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