The San Diego Padres are 7-0 after a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians at Petco Park on Wednesday afternoon.
The large story of the sport was middle fielder Jackson Merrill’s two-run homer within the third to present the Padres a 4-0 lead. His 388-foot shot into proper middle could not have come at a greater time, as a result of earlier within the day the Padres had given him a large nine-year, $135M contract extension that he immediately made good on.
Merrill, 21, is hitting .417 this early season with an OBP of .444. He has 10 hits, two dwelling runs and eight RBI up to now.
That dwelling run bought the headlines and it was the feel-good story of the day, however the backdrop to all of it is that San Diego’s 7-0 begin is historic.
That is the very best begin in franchise historical past by the Padres, they usually’re enjoying unbelievable baseball. They swept the Atlanta Braves to begin the season and have now swept the Guardians.
The Padres are second in MLB in group batting average at .299 and first in team ERA at 1.50. They’re doing it with each offense and protection.
“It’s simply been nice baseball all the way in which round,” Fernando Tatis Jr. mentioned, in accordance with AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. “We have now an ideal ballclub over right here, and we got here out of the gate on the precise foot.”
“It’s simply good baseball each night time,” supervisor Mike Shildt added. “… We are able to beat you in lots of alternative ways.”
Maybe extra spectacular than their historic begin is the truth that the Padres have been capable of match the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers (additionally 7-0) within the NL West.
Up subsequent for San Diego is an away sequence towards the Chicago Cubs.
