SAN DIEGO – The Cubs’ 10-4 loss to the Padres on Tuesday rapidly spiraled uncontrolled within the late innings because the bullpen took over. However the turning level was far subtler than the house runs and multi-run hits that got here later.
It was a blooper hitting the grass in between two Gold Glovers.
“A superb workforce like that, you make a pair errors, and so they’re going to capitalize on it,” left fielder Ian Happ stated. “So, yeah, come again tomorrow and play a greater baseball sport.”
The Cubs had a 3-1 lead within the sixth inning when starter Jameson Taillon handed over the ball to reliever Brad Keller with one out and a runner on first.
Taillon’s pitch rely was as much as 89 after an 11-pitch stroll to Manny Machado.
“I’ve been somewhat beneath the climate the previous couple of days, so I sort of figured they weren’t going to push me to love 105 pitches tonight,” Taillon stated after holding the Padres to a few hits Monday. “Which I’m grateful for as a result of I used to be just a bit drained and fatigued all night time.”
Keller bought Padres cleanup hitter Gavin Sheets to hit a blooper into shallow left subject. Particularly contemplating the Cubs’ status for sure-handed protection, it regarded like an out.
Happ, shortstop Dansby Swanson and third baseman Matt Shaw all broke in direction of the ball, with Shaw peeling off when it was clear it wasn’t his. However nobody referred to as for it, and neither Happ nor Swanson, who each appeared inside vary, made the ultimate effort. The ball fell between them.
“Excessive popup, ought to have been caught,” Happ stated. “Down the road – I used to be enjoying sort of extra straight up, not as a lot in direction of the road – however that’s a play the place I’m in search of the opposite two guys, and I ought to have put my head down and gone and bought it.”
As an alternative of two outs and a runner on first, there was one out with runners on first and second. Keller walked the following batter, Xander Bogaerts, to load the bases. So, when Jose Iglesias chopped a swinging bunt to the left facet of the infield, it turned an RBI single as Keller picked up the ball with no play.
The Padres had minimize the Cubs’ result in one run and nonetheless had the bases loaded. Then Jason Heyward hit a pointy floor ball up the center, a diving shortstop Dansby Swanson slowing it down however unable to provide you with it, to tie the sport.
Keller struck out the following two batters to get out of the inning. However the sport had basically modified.
“Brad threw the ball very properly, and we simply missed an on the market, after which they bought some fortune on their facet, and a few luck on their facet, and that damage us there,” supervisor Craig Counsell stated. “After which from there on, we didn’t throw the ball nice.”
Proper-hander Nate Pearson gave up three runs within the seventh inning and solely recorded one out. Eli Morgan relieved him.
Morgan bought out of the inning however then gave up a pair of house runs and a single within the eighth earlier than he left with an athletic coach. Counsell stated Morgan was coping with some proper elbow points.
“We’re going to need to see how he feels tomorrow, after which see what which means,” Counsell stated.
Ethan Roberts completed the sport, permitting one inherited runner to attain on a fielder’s alternative. He was the one Cubs pitcher who wasn’t charged with a run Tuesday.
Counsell confirmed {that a} roster transfer was seemingly coming.
