Field Level Media
03 Aug 2025, 10:49 GMT+10
(Photo credit: David Frerker-Imagn Images)
Pedro Pages cracked a three-run homer to tie the game and Masyn Winn snapped a tie with a two-run double as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals rallied from an early 4-0 deficit to topple the San Diego Padres 8-5 on Saturday.
Michael McGreevy (3-2) shrugged off a rough beginning to earn the win, allowing seven hits and four runs over six innings. He walked one and fanned four, retiring seven of the last eight men he faced. JoJo Romero got the last four outs for his first save despite yielding a two-out RBI single to Freddy Fermin in the ninth.
Randy Vasquez (3-5) permitted eight hits and five runs in four-plus innings, walking none and striking out three. San Diego had won six straight games started by Vasquez (though he did not get a decision in any of them). The result also ended the Padres' six-game winning streak.
It appeared Vasquez might win for the first time since May 14 when he took a 4-0 lead into the fourth inning. But St. Louis, which scored just one run in the previous 30 innings, pieced together four hits for four runs to tie the game.
Willson Contreras led off with a double and reached third on a one-out single by Winn. Nolan Gorman looped an RBI single just past shortstop Xander Bogaerts to cash in Contreras and Pages tied the game with his seventh homer, drilling a hanging curve over the left field wall.
Winn untied the game an inning later, lining a breaking ball from reliever Jeremiah Estrada into the left field corner for a double that scored Ivan Herrera and Alec Burleson. In the ninth, Burleson stroked an RBI single that plated Victor Scott II and Contreras lofted a sacrifice fly that scored Brendan Donovan.
It was all Padres in the first three innings. They led 1-0 three batters into the game on Luis Arraez's double, which extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games, and Manny Machado's RBI single.
Ramon Laureano's second-inning triple plated Bogaerts to make it 2-0 and Fermin scored Laureano with an infield out.
Jackson Merrill upped the margin to four in the third with a two-out solo homer, his eighth of the year.
--Field Level Media
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