Padres vs. Twins Game Highlights (5/9/23) | MLB Highlights

Well the Padres got off to kind of a slow start offensively. But if you look to it April 20 it's all of a sudden the Padres started turn things around. They got a superstar back that day. The twins are hoping this return to their home ballpark will be just what the doctor ordered to get things back on track. Walker toes the rubber to two starts against these twins last season as a Red Sox pitched well one to know with a one point six four P.R.A. Slowly roll towards third Baird handed and in time nice play by Manny Machado able to run in and barehanded kind of a do or die play and Manny does Carlos Correa. He just got Machado. Here's Michael Taylor and there's a base hit to the opposite field. What's the order over and Max Kepler. This is down and he'll fill for first base and Kepler draws a two hour walk. So two on two out. And here comes Correa and Papa right side Jake Cronenworth is there. The grass makes the catch and Michael Walker works out of it. He strands a pair. Here's one Soto first pitch swinging driven to right field going back for it as Kepler is going to be over his head and off the wall. Juan Soto rounds first he's heading for second digging for two and he will cruise in with a one out double one is two for two second one out no balls to strike swung out and missed Bogart's waved at a ball outside strikeout number five. And Carpenter walked in the second inning and that is in the right field a base hit from second base comes Soto. He will score as the throw is sort of cut off. It was knocked down by Karell off and the Padres have grabbed the game's first run. Walker working with Lee for the first time in tonight's game. And then works out a walk. And a four pitch walk who's had a great chance in Cleveland with a hit batter to walks nobody out and got nothing out of it. See how they fare this time with Polanco coming to the plate lines it's a left Soto moving back and making the catch to one one away Jose Miranda do the left field corner deep to the wall. Fairball staying in the park Kirov being held at third it's an RBI double and we're tied and now Gallo Hitlerson twenty four at bats hit to the outfield to put the twins up three one and a swing and a miss needed that and a grounder towards Bogart's and shortstop his throw in time and the inning is over. Twins will tie it up on the Miranda double and strand to Michael Taylor made a nice running catch will lead off on the ground slowly hit Machado racing in barehanded again and he makes the play again. He has made two of those barehanded do or die type plays at both times. Manny does bring up Manny Machado and he has struck out twice tonight against Varlan to the five K's Varlan has Machado takes it the other way in the right field a base hit out of the reach of Polanco at second base one out single for Manny. He's going again and that's ball for Soto with a walk and the Padres have two on with one away such a big guy to get here with left hander Matt Carpenter on the deck. Varlan may be nearing the end of his night if he can get Bogart's changeup got him to down check swing roller up the line and Miranda makes the play and the inning Miranda with a bare hand nice play all on Machado and throws out Carpenter for the third out almost three times through the order he had turned over to Griffin Jackson Jackson face the bottom third of San Diego's lineup Kim Grisham and Nola one to pitch check swing grounder by the mound and over is Carol did he get the foot down. No he did not. And Kim reaches and we are in the seventh inning you get the leadoff man on and could be a big big turning point in the game shows but pulls it back takes ball for his first two Padres who breached here in the seventh inning after the first to reach for the Padres in the seventh to get Austin Nola Nola coming up next let's see if Nola is going to lay one down here Nola squaring pulls it back taking off for third and getting there is Kim one one gets it down fair this time here comes Cam and the pitcher goes to first they do get the out but he had that play in front of him and may have had a chance to get Kim but instead the Padres take it to one lead the heads up base running by Hassan Kim pays off in a huge way and a runner in scoring position as Trent Grisham is now standing on second on the sacrifice and Fernando Tatis Jr. at the plate now one out of the inning and Fernando grounds with a short stop they will flip the second and get Grisham who is off the bag kind of froze and they're able to get that lead runner so poor base one at that time by Grisham not grown on worth. There goes Tatis the pitch is a ball the throw is going to get through in the center field so Fernando just keeps on going stolen base and an eight two two will get him to third. That's why you've got to love the pop up slide second air the inning this one will be charged a basket. And that is ball for Cronenworth down to first base second walk in the inning allowed by Jacks and the ball gets away and coming in from third is Tatis. Wow Padres he'll take a three one lead down to third and ends up hit him hitting him. So the Padres have scored two runs in the city without the benefit of a base hit. That's hard to do. Two errors have been given to Christian Baskin in this in and there have been three total errors in the inning defensively for the Twins. It's been a mess from Minnesota and now Luis Garcia enters first man he'll face is Joey Gallo. That'll work right off the end of the bat but he powers it through the infield for a lead off single and that breaks an 0 4 twenty five and this twins team that's kind of what you needed to have happen here after that sloppy top half of the seventh base hit for Gordon softly in the left field and sound like it was right off the end of the bat but it'll work first and second for the top of the order. Twins are trying to rally down three one bottom seven Luis Garcia is out and on the pitch is right hander Steven Wilson. He offers that and strikes out Steven Wilson with a big strike out there at Kepler. Number two and now it's up to Correa Danny and Carlos was in this spot earlier tonight third inning two on two out there was no score at the time it popped out and now a big at bat late tonight. Swung on a miss strike three heater upstairs foul tip held on by Austin Nola. Steven Wilson comes in and punches out both batters that he faces that put an end to the Twins rally in the seventh Alex is lined out bounce down and walk tonight his second game of the season and he takes ball for all of a sudden just like that you get the time run come to the plate here and Jorge Polanco. It's a fly ball to center field Grisham moving back back pedaling. Plenty of room makes the catch for out number two the one to swing and a miss strike three got a foul tip held on by Austin Nola and that'll do it for the Twins. There's a liner in the center field for Nolan a base hit a one out knock for Austin Nola Tatis and the pitch struck him out swinging and Machado hoping to get a chance here in the ninth inning with two outs. That's inside ball for a Cronenworth has walked again and Machado will get a chance with two outs. He does drives one to deep left field back goes Gallo look it up and that ball is very good into the second deck for Manny Machado. It's a three run home run in the Padres take a six one lead Manny's in Minnesota and the folks here are starting to make their way to the exit six one Padres as Juan Soto looking for his fourth knock comes to the plate to right center field and it's in for a base hit the fourth hit of the night for Soto first four hit game as a member of the San Diego Padres his first four hit game since September 11th of twenty twenty one. Tim Hill the new pitcher for the San Diego Padres with the five run lead. No need for a hater shot to second base Kim to the back and throw to first. That's the ball game and the Padres are able to take game one of the series the final Padres six the twins won.