SAN DIEGO — The Padres have a real live capable offense, evidently.
It’s the kind of offense they thought they finally built. It’s the kind of offense that can pick up a pitcher (or two) that has gotten knocked around a bit.
A 13-7 victory over the Giants on Wednesday afternoon at Petco Park was far more dramatic than the final score made it seem.
After Sean Manaea allowed three runs in the top of the third, the Padres batted around and scored six runs in the bottom of the inning.
After Nabil Crismatt was charged with three runs in the top of the sixth, the Padres batted around and scored seven runs in the bottom of the inning.
It was just the second time this season the Padres came back to win a game in which they trailed by four runs. It was the first time they won a game in which they trailed twice.
This came after Manny Machado’s walk-off three-run homer Tuesday night covered closer Josh Hader blowing a three-run lead in the ninth inning.
The Padres had 16 hits Wednesday and 11 Tuesday.
Between getting 10 hits on Aug. 3 — in the first game celebrated trade-deadline acquisitions Josh Bell, Brandon Drury and Juan Soto were in the lineup — and Tuesday, the Padres batted .168 over a five-game losing streak.
The Padres hit two home runs Wednesday and two Tuesday. In the previous five games, they were homerless.
The Giants led 1-0 when an eventful third inning commenced.
Manaea, who surrendered a home run to J.D. Davis in the second inning, allowed three runs (two earned, all of dubious origin) in the third.
A single by Austin Wynns preceded a walk to Luis Gonzalez, in which Manaea threw 11 pitches and just two balls outside the strike zone. Two pitches that would have been the third strike were called balls by home plate umpire. (Rackley also called a pitch clearly in the zone a ball, but third base umpire Jeremy Riggs ruled Gonzalez had swung.)
With those two runners on, Austin Slater lined a ball to right field that it appeared Soto might catch but instead he seemed to attempt to fool the runners into thinking he might catch. The ball bounced in front of Soto and then skipped past him, allowing both runners to score and Slater to jog into third.
Wilmer Flores followed with a bloop single to center field that scored Slater and made it 4-0.
Austin Nola began the bottom of the inning with a 10-pitch walk, and the Padres did not make an out until six more batters had reached safely and four had scored.
Jurickson Profar’s infield single, Soto’s single and Machado’s bases-loaded double halved the Giants lead. Bell walked to reload the bases, and RBI singles by Drury and Jake Cronenworth tied the game.
Trent Grisham’s one-out single gave the Padres the lead, and Nola’s soft fielder’s choice grounder extended the lead to 6-4.
It was tied 6-6 after the Giants score twice against Nabil Crismatt in the sixth inning.
Crismatt began the inning by hitting Davis. Mike Yastrzemski followed with a double laced down the left-field line, and Davis scored on Thairo Estrada’s sacrifice fly. Wynns then rolled a ball to the right side that Bell, the first baseman, and Cronenworth, the second baseman, both converged on as Crismatt broke late for first. Cronenworth’s throw was like that of a quarterback trying to lead a receiver on a slow-developing play. It sailed behind Crismatt and to the dugout railing, allowing Yastrzemski to score and Wynns to go to second.
Robert Suarez entered, and his balk moved Wynns to third. That ended up being significant, because the single to left field by Slater that followed almost certainly would not have scored Wynns from second and Wilmer Flores followed by grounding into an inning-ending double play.
After Profar and Soto began the bottom of the sixth with outs, Machado and Bell singled and Drury homered to put the Padres ahead for good. Cronenworth singled and scored on Ha-Seong Kim’s double. Grisham drove in Kim with a single, and Nola homered before Profar made the third out.
