Eric Hosmer Homer To Deliver The Padres Waterlogged Win

The San Diego Padres dried out their lumber and used their bats to club the Reds. After a Reds' comeback Eric Hosmer's 16th home run of the season off Raisel Iglesias in the ninth inning nailed down the Padres 7-6 win as the escaped the flooded plains of the Ohio river.

It was Hosmer's third home run of the series all opposite field jobs that allowed the Padres to split the four-game series that featured five hours and 42 minutes of rain delays.

"We don't make too many excuses for the home runs we give up.a lot of homer but that was an Great American Ball Park homer.  Hosmer's a good hitter but this might be the only ball park it goes out of," Jim Riggleman said. "Raisel has been off about six days.  He put a pitch in there and Hosmer hit it."

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Tyler Mahle made the start in place of Homer Bailey, who was banished to the bullpen to "work out his lack of fastball command" for the rest of the season.

"It was not my plan to throw 70 pitches in three innings," Mahle said.  "I felt alright. It obviously didn't go the way I planned it but I felt o.k. I threw too many pitches and too many with men on base. I'm trying to do the same thing I did early in the season but its not going the way I wanted to."

Mahle's main problem was issuing walks.  He issued three in his three innings. Austin Hedges followed one of those walks with his 12th home run of the season.

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"We were going to limit Tyler to four or five innings at most but 74 pitches in three innings is an indication he isn't sharp," Riggleman said. "Tyler had some tenderness in his shoulder a month ago. I'm not sure the ball is coming out of his hand the way it did earlier in the season."

The Padres staked their starting pitcher, Jacob Nix, with two runs off the Reds Lucas Sims, who came from the Atlanta Braves in the trade for Adam Duvall.  Sims gave up a single to Eric Hosmer.  Luis Urias hit his second home run to give Nix a four-run lead.

Nix had no hit stuff for three innings until Jose Peraza led off the fourth with a single. Jpey Votto's ground out moved Peraza to second.  Tucker Barnhart's single pulled the Reds a run closer.

The Padres put up two more against Sims.  Franmil Reyes singled.  Cory Spangenberg walked.  Both scored on a double by Freddie Galvis.

The Reds lumber also dried by then.  They took Nix to the wood shed in the fifth.

Blake Trahan entered on a double switch that brought in Matt Wisler, another pitcher in the Duvall trade,   Trahan opened the fifth with a single.  Billy Hamilton dumped a single in front of the lumbering Reyes in right field that probably should have been caught. Scott Schebler singled to load the bases.  Peraza double to score two runs.  Votto ended Nix's day with his second home run in two days after he broke a 36-game home run drought.  It was the 11th home run for Votto.

David Hernandez turned in a scoreless sixth and seventh for the Reds.

Jose Castillo held the Reds in check.

Jared Hughes pitched a 1-2-3 eighth.

The game was held up in the middle of the eighth inning.  The game resumed after an hour and 32 minutes.

Tucker Barnhart doubled off Craig Stamman, of Dayton to open the eighth inning.  Pinch hitter Mason Williams struck out after failing to bunt Barnhart to third.  Eugenio Suarez, who was getting the day off came off the bench to pinch hit.  He struck out swinging on a 3-2 pitch.  Billy Hamilton's routine fly out ended the mild threat.

"We need to get the runner to third.  That's baseball Mason was trying to get him over and just couldn't do it," Riggleman said.


Kirby Yates had to navigate the top of the Reds' lineup to varnish the rain extended series.  The scoreless inning earned Yates his seventh save.

The last tie for the Reds was on June 30, 2005 against the Houston Astros.  The game was called in the seventh inning with the game tied at 2-2.  The last tie for San Diego was on September 28, 1983 against the Dodgers in the middle of the 14th inning with the game tied 4-4.

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