RECAP: Padres 8, Mets 7
- Updated: July 30, 2015
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With two outs, nobody on, and one strike against Derek Norris in the ninth inning of a 7-5 game, the rains came in New York and the San Diego Padres and New York Mets went into a delay — surely, only to return a half hour later with the formality of throwing the final pitch(es) to finish up the game.
It was not to be, though — Norris singled, then Kemp singled, and with the rain pouring again, Justin Upton hit a two-out three run bomb to give the Padres an 8-7 victory on Thursday afternoon against the New York Mets.
Then, the rains came again, and with the Padres leading 8-7 after the miracle, another nearly two-hour delay ensued, with the game in doubt; had the game not been resumed in the bottom of the ninth inning, it would’ve reverted back to the last full inning completed, and given the Mets a 7-5, eight inning victory.
But, eventually, the rains stopped, and the Padres took the field in the bottom of the ninth with a one run lead for Craig Kimbrel. Kimbrel shut down the Mets after more than 6 hours and 20 minutes of baseball and rain delays, and the Padres won 8-7 after having been down 7-1 earlier in the game.
The New York Mets jumped on Andrew Cashner with two home runs, and a key error by Clint Barmes effectively ran the San Diego Padres out of the game in the sixth inning, but the wild ninth inning changed everything for both clubs.
The Mets scored first in the top of the first, when Daniel Murphy hit a sacrifice fly off Padres’ starter Andrew Cashner to make it a 1-0 game. And then, for four innings, nobody scored — Cashner and Mets’ starter Jon Niese shut down their respective lineups until the bottom of the fifth inning.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Mets got three more runs off Cashner when Curtis Granderson hit a home run with two on to give New York a 4-0 lead. It was the 16th home run of the season allowed by Cashner up to this point.
The Padres finally answered back in the top of the sixth inning, when Matt Kemp scored Melvin Upton, Jr. on an RBI single off Niese to finally get the Friars on the board.
The bottom of the sixth saw the Mets score three more runs, highlighted by a homer from Juan Uribe off Cashner, and continued against the Padres’ bullpen after a costly error by Clint Barmes. Barmes’ error extended the inning far enough for the Mets to get a Juan Lagares sacrifice fly, and a Rueben Tejada RBI single, and go into the eighth inning leading 7-1.
The game changed — at least for a minute — in the top of the seventh when Derek Norris slugged a one-out grand slam to left field off Hansel Robles, bringing the Padres to within two runs at 7-5 through seven innings.
However, the Padres were unable to do much of anything in the eighth — after leaving a runner stranded on second base — and in the ninth, a rain delay with two outs and one strike on Norris upended the game’s rhythm.
After half an hour off, Norris — and then Kemp — each singled on very weak contact, and the Padres had two runners on with two outs for Justin Upton crush his home run that would put the Padres up 8-7.
The Padres continue their long road trip with a three-game series against the Miami Marlins in South Beach, followed by a four-game trip to Milwaukee to face the NL Central’s cellar dwelling Brewers.
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