Reiver Sanmartin retired the first eight batters he faced in the game but the streak turned 180 degrees after that. Ha-Seong Kim hit his second home run of the season to put the San Diego Padres on track for a 9-6 win. It was the 10th time in the last 11 meetings that the Padres defeated the Reds.
The first seven Padres had hits in the fourth inning. Kim drew a bases loaded walk and Sanmartin was finished. All eight scored. Jake Cronenworth hit a bloop single. Manny Machado singled off the wall in right field to put runners at first and third. Jurickson Profar doubled down the line in right to score Cronenworth. Eric Hosmier lined a three-run home run to the right field stands. The next three batters didn't exactly crush the ball after that. Will Myers had a bloop single. Luis Campusano had in infield hit. As did Trent Grisham to load the bases in front of Kim's walk.
"The big hit was Hosmer's home run," David Bell said. "Really Reiver located his pitches pretty well. He got a lot of soft contact. Those balls were going for hits. That made it tough on him. All in all he was really making pitches."
Jeff Hoffman took the ball from David Bell and he got Austin Nola to fly out to short right. Cronenworth promptly cleaned the bases with a triple down the right field line.
The Reds scored first for what it's worth off Joe Musgrove.
Nick Senzel hit a two-out single. He advanced to second when Nola, the catch mer hit Colin Moran's bat trying to return the ball to the pitcher. Nola was charged with an error, the third of the season for the Padres, who started the season with 16 errorless games. They made two on Sunday against the Dodgers.
Moran followed with an RBI single to plate the unearned run.
The Reds got two more unearned runs in the bottom of the fourth to close to within a half dozen runs.
Joey Votto walked and Kyle Farmer singled to open the inning. Nick Senzel reached on catcher's interference. Nola was charged with his second error. Moran hit a ground ball to second that looked like a double play but Kim's return throw to first skipped past Hosmer. The Padres second error of the inning allowed Farmer to score. Moran was credited with his second RBI because the r scorer, can not assume a double play by rule. After 16 games without an error, the Padres made five in the last two games.
The Reds caught a break to end the Padres fifth without a run. Hosmer and Myers singled. A slow ground ball by Campusano put runners at second and third. Hoffman struck out Grisham. Hoffman's pitch to Kim bounced off the base of the backstop. Aramis Garcia rebounded the ball and beat Hosmer to the plate for the out tag.
The Red inched closer with two earned runs in the fifth. Jonathan India in his first game back from a strained hamstring opened the inning with a double. Tyler Naquin doubled for one run. Naquin got to third when Tommy Pham fouled out to right. Votto's ground out scored Naquin.
"We got down 9-1 and were able to get their closer up in the bullpen. We didn't win the game and that's kind of the point. I get it but over the course of a long season those things really do matter," Bell said.
Musgrove pitched six innings. He allowed seven hits and a walk. Only two of the five runs Musgrove allowed were earned.
Sanmartin is now 0-3 on the season but the Reds still want him to keep doing what he's doing.
"We will continue to encourage him," Bell said. "He has a great way about him. He will continue to work. He has nice movement on a few different pitches. Locating them are what are going to make him successful. He was doing that. He just has to continue to do it. Don't get away from it now. The results were not what he wanted. Reiver has to trust what he does. When he does it, he is going to have a lot of success here."
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