San Diego Padres at Tampa Bay Rays

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San Diego Padres

72-63, 31-35 Away

Final
4 - 9

Tampa Bay Rays

80-54, 44-23 Home

Diaz, Mullins homers power AL-leading Rays to a 9-4 win over the Padres for 80th victory

San Diego Padres vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

Shane McClanahan (10-6) allowed three hits and four runs, three earned, with two walks and four strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. The 29-year-old left-hander improved to 8-1 at home.

Chandler Simpson had two hits, two stolen bases and scored twice as the Rays (80-54) won for the fourth time in five games and became the first team in the American League to reach 80 wins.

Casey Mize (5-8) allowed seven runs, two earned, on six hits in five innings. Jackson Merrill homered for San Diego, which is 8-2 in its last 10 games.

Diaz hit an opposite field homer to right for his 20th of the season, opening the scoring in the third. He moved into fifth place in franchise history with 119 homers and into fourth place for RBI with 470.

Tampa Bay sent nine batters to the plate in the fourth, scoring five runs on two hits — both two-out singles by Taylor Walls and Diaz — to open a 6-0 lead.

Jonny DeLuca made it 7-2 with a two-out single in the bottom of the fifth, before Merrill hit a two-run homer in the sixth to make it 7-4.

Caminero singled in a run in the sixth and Mullins hit a solo home run in the seventh.

Up next Padres RHP Walker Buehler (8-6, 4.63 ERA) is scheduled to face Tampa Bay RHP Nick Martinez (13-4, 2.93 ERA) on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Fermin lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Hays grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Bogaerts flied out to right.
	8th Inning	Piper struck out swinging.
	8th Inning	Caminero grounded into fielder's choice to third, Aranda out at second.
	8th Inning	Aranda singled to center.

Statistics

SD		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
12	Ground Balls	13
5	Strikeouts	6
4	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	3
3	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	9
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
32	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	18
0	Caught Stealing	0
126	Pitches	141
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	18
35	Plate Appearances	40
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
1.0	Runs Created	7.1
.125	Batting Average	.306
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.219	Slugging Percentage	.500
.188	Secondary Average	.333
.200	On Base Percentage	.350
.419	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.850
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
1.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.4
23.0	Batter Rating	56.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	18.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.60	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.53
.094	Isolated Power	.194
0.60	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.086	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.050
.063	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.028
8.0	Runs Produced	17.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
70.5	MLB Rating	99.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0