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Story by Liz Alper
Photo via @Padres on Twitter
February 28, 2017 (Peoria, Ariz.) - They say spring training is meaningless. The 0-3 Padres may want to challenge that theory as they went back to Peoria to face the Giants. It didn't help that Madison Bumgarner was on the mound for San Francisco against Jhoulys Chacin for the Padres.
It started off as the same story. The Giants started early with Conor Gillaspie’s single in the first to score Joe Panik to give San Francisco a 1-0 lead.
The Padres tied the game at one on a Jose Pirela triple that scored Austin Hedges in their half of the first. Jabari Blash hit a sac lineout to left and Pirela tagged and the Padres took their first lead of spring training, 2-1.
But of course, that didn't last long. In the third, Chris Marrero singled to deep center to score two and give the Giants the lead again, 3-2. Buddy Enright walked Nick Hundley to score Marrero and the Giants led 4-2 and that was the end of Enright’s day. The Giants still added one more to make it 5-2.
Blash was the Padres’ saving grace in the fourth, blasting a three-run homer to left to tie the game at five.
Two innings later, Blash went the other way with a grounder to right to score Pirela and the Padres took a 6-5 lead.
Newbie Nick Buss doubled in the seventh to score Hector Sanchez and the Padres took a 7-5 lead. They tacked on two more on right fielder Mac Williamson’s error to take a 9-5 lead and kick Josh Osich out of the game. They carried it to the end to win their first game of spring training 9-5.
The Pads play two split squad games tomorrow. One team will stay in Peoria to face the Athletics for a 12:10 p.m. start. Sonny Gray will start for the A’s against Trevor Cahill for the Pads. The other split squad will head to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick to play the Rockies at 12:10 p.m.
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