San Diego (AFP) – Fernando Tates Jr. was waiting for the breakout game, and the boy did the El Niño game.
The 21-year-old budding star, who grew up in the game at his father’s feet in the big league, scored twice at home and led in five points to boost San Diego Padres to a thrilling 11-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday night that forced a playoff 3 in the series Their NL Wild Cards.
Will Myers has also gone twice and continues Mane Machado, but Tates – with his signature abundance and flair – was the one who threw the party in the empty Petco Park.
With his blond Majdelah draped around his helmet, Tates danced on the first baseline and pointed enthusiastically toward his teammates after lighting him back by lining up three runs in the left-field seats in the sixth inning. Machado followed, with a single shot, to equalize the match at 6.
After four hitters after Myers opened seventh with a single shot to lead 7-6, Tates was even more dramatic after driving two vehicles into the right-hand running field. Tates turned his racket, turned around and looked at his teammates before starting his jog, and then made several jumps after touching the board.
Tates and Myers are the second teammates in post-season history with many teammates in the same game, and they joined Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees on October 1, 1932 in the third game of the World Series – including Ruth’s famous “The Shot.” . “
Badriss is the first team in post-season history with five games at home from the sixth round onwards in the match.
This was the 23rd victory in 2020 for the cohesive Padres, who defended each other throughout the year.
Tates said of his first player: “I feel we need this big swing for the whole team in order to move forward. We missed a lot with the runners in the scoring center. I feel everyone who did it first, we would have gone fed that. Thank God I did it first. But I’m just happy the team recognized and won the match. “
He was serious after Homera II because he wanted to send a message.
“We are in the playoffs. The game is not over, the mission is not done until we get 27 times, we cannot back down, we cannot settle.” There was a lot of match left. I wanted to keep motivating my colleagues, just to let them know, to keep going. They are a team that they will answer, so we have to keep doing the work. “
San Diego’s powerful attack finally exploded after he was tired after losing 7-4 in the first game and five frosty innings Thursday night.
After hitting Tee Bases in fourth, Tatis – who is with Machado is a competitor in the NL MVP – came in in consecutive roles. Tates’ father played with the Cardinals for three seasons during his 11-season league career.
Myers added a two-trigger Homer in eighth.
Padres’ first post-season win was at Petco Park, which opened in 2004. The first four losses were for St. Louis, which wiped out Padres in the split series in 2005 and 2006 – the last time he made Padres post-season – like as well as in 1996. When Padres played at Jack Murphy’s Stadium.
The third game will be on Friday, and both teams will be linked after clubs have combined to use 17 archers.
It was the second time that Badriss had hit the hosts in a row in qualifying. The first was when Greg Vaughn and Tony Gwen made a call away from San Diego native David Wells in the fifth game of the first game of the 1998 World Series at Yankee Stadium. New York swept that streak.
Cardinals loyal Genesis Cabrera opened sixth place by walking on Austin Nola and rookie Jake Cronworth before hitting Trent Gresham and making way for Giovanni Gallegos. Tatis lined up on the field 2-2 in the left field seats to pull Padres down to 6-5. Machado followed him by lining up the field 3-2 to the left midfield for a draw.
St. Louis manager Mike Sheldt said, “It’s a good squad, and it has no secrets. We made them strong. Once the momentum started, we couldn’t make any rounds off.”
Tates finished second in the Premier League with 17 houses in the regular season, Machado 16 and Myers 15.
Emilio Pagan won and former Cardinal Trevor Rosenthal set up the ninth goal of the save.
Colten Wong took the lead in four runs for the Cardinals, who took a 6–2 lead in sixth place.
Cardinals writer Adam Wainwright allowed two runs and six strokes before chasing after him after 3 1/3 runs. He hit three and walked two.
Wong, who had only had one Homer in the regular season, gave the Cardinals a 4–0 lead without doubt, a two-stage shot deep into right-of-field off Zach Davis with a single exit per second. It was his fifth career after the shooting. Harrison Bader, who was hit five times on Wednesday, was on the single board track that Matt Carpenter recorded after the lead brace.
Yadier Molina, who appeared in NL’s # 100 post-season game, hit an RBI song first and added his career # 100 in postseason at nine before being raised for a pinch runner.
The Cardinal closed the gap with two unearned runs in the eight, both on sacrifice flies, after Tates made a throwaway foul in shortstop. Paul introduced Goldschmidt in the ninth, second of the series.
Wainwright said, “We played a great squad, a great team, and they came to us again and again and we never backed down. We hit back almost every time. Every time we put them in a hole they came right back.”
next one
St. Louis: RHP Jack Flaherty (4-3, 4.91 ERA Regular Season) is scheduled to start Match 3 on Friday.
San Diego: No start has been announced. “I have no idea,” said junior manager Jace Tengler moments after the second match concluded. Padres did not include injured junior Mike Klevinger and Dennelson Lammet in the wild cards list.
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