Rengifo lights the fuse in San Diego
Two outs, second inning, and Luis Rengifo picked his moment. He turned on a pitch and sent it 366 feet into the San Diego night, the first grand slam of his career and his third home run of the year. Padres 5, Brewers 1, just like that. There was history in it, too. Milwaukee had beaten him 7-1 back on May 14. This was payback, served with interest.
San Diego finished the job 11-2 and made it four wins in a row. Seventeen hits. Every man in the starting lineup had a knock before the sixth inning was done.
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Tatis climbs the franchise ladder
Fernando Tatis Jr. wanted a piece of it. His solo shot in the fourth was number 12 on the season and number 164 for his career, enough to slip past Nate Colbert into second on the Padres all-time home run list. Luis Campusano piled on in the fifth with a two-run blast of his own.
Walker Buehler (7-5) gave San Diego six steady innings, three hits, one run, five strikeouts. That kind of length had come only three times in his first 24 starts. Kyle Harrison (9-3) had the opposite night. Ten hits, eight runs, gone after four and two-thirds. By the eighth, Milwaukee had catcher Gary Sanchez on the mound.
Back in the wild-card scrum
Now it gets interesting. San Diego pulls level with the Phillies and Diamondbacks for the last two National League wild-card spots. Plenty of baseball left to play. But the Padres are heating up at the right time, and the bats keep coming from the first pitch to the last.
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