Padres’ lone big inning not enough as Giants jump on Márquez, keep hitting

Fernando Tatis Jr reached twice, including stealing a base and scoring the opening Brown and Gold run of the three-score third, but Willy Adames became the first Giant to record a four-hit game this season, leading the game off with a solo home run and finishing with two runs scored and two RBI. Jun Hoo Lee added three hits and three RBI for the visitors, who pounded out 16 hits in the evening. The success in the third came thanks to San Diego (1-4) grinding their way through 25 pitches and aided by two free passes.

Tatis and Manny Machado each worked one-out walks, then Jackson Merrill singled home Tatis. Machado came home on an infield ground out by Xander Bogaerts, then Miguel Andujar drove home Merrill by jumping on a high sinker and shooting it out into right field. The Padres let early opportunities against Giants’ (2-3) starter Webb come up empty, as San Diego had seven base runners over the first three innings.

But Webb retired the last ten batters he faced to earn his first win win, finishing with three hits and 3 runs allowed with five strikeouts and four walks in six innings with 104 pitches. Otherwise, the Padres again weren’t able to get much going as they did not get the lead-off runner aboard until Nick Castellanos’ double in the seventh against reliever JT Brubaker. Three of five runners were stranded in scoring position, as both of the hits with runners in scoring position came in the third inning of the eight chances overall.

Meanwhile San Francisco jumped on Germán Márquez early in his San Diego debut, as Adames cracked the second pitch of the game off the top of the wall and over down the left field line on a low knuckle curve. It was the first of 16 hits in the game for the visitors. It was part of a three-run first for Giants, as Heliot Ramos drew a one-out walk and Matt Chapman dumped an up-and-in sinker out to left center with two down.