SAN FRANCISCO — The Padres beat the Giants 4-2 thanks to one big hit and some little ones, as well as a sliding catch by Jurickson Profar that took away another big hit.
The decisive run scored in the seventh inning on a Manny Machado grounder that was mishandled by Giants reliever Tyler Rogers.
New Padres closer Taylor Rogers worked a scoreless ninth, giving the Padres their fourth consecutive victory and making the Rogers brothers the first set of twins to pitch in the same game for opposing teams and just the fifth to ever appear in the same major league game. Taylor earned the save while Tyler was charged with the loss.
Ha-seong Kim led off the seventh with a slowly rolled single to shortstop, Trent Grisham reached on a bunt single and Austin Nola’s fly out to right field moved Kim to third. Machado followed with a grounder that Tyler Rogers hoped to turn into a double play but bobbled and had to settle for the out at first while Kim ran home.
Jake Cronenworth’s single scored Grisham for the final run in the ninth.
Profar’s bases-loaded single that bounced high off the plate and traveled about 15 feet into the infield grass in the fourth inning tied the game 1-1, and Nola’s 383-foot home run in the fifth put the Padres up 2-1.
Profar’s sprint down the line to beat pitcher Alex Wood’s throw by a blink in the fourth inning was a prelude to his 100-foot run and sliding catch on the warning track in left center to end the seventh and preserve the Padres’ lead.
After Padres starter Nick Martinez pitched five strong innings, in which he allowed just a run in the second and retired seven of the final eight batters he faced, the Giants tied the game off Steven Wilson in the sixth.
It appeared they might do the same against Craig Stammen in the seventh.
With Mike Yastrzemski, who had singled, running from first base with two outs, Darin Ruf sent a high fly ball 383 feet to the gap in left center. With Stammen having turned to watch in a squatting position, Profar covered 100 feet in 5.6 seconds, sliding feet-first across the warning track as he caught the ball about 5 feet in front of the wall.
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