SAN DIEGO, Calif — Manny Machado provided an illustration of how wildly wonderful baseball can be when his “instincts” worked out for the Padres in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.
It didn’t take long for the day to change drastically.
The Padres split a doubleheader with the Rockies at Petco Park, winning the first game 2-1 in 10 innings on Machado’s walk-off scramble from second base to home and losing the second 6-2 after their rookie pitcher finally hit a bump and their fielding fell apart.