The San Diego Padres are 7-0 after a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians at Petco Park on Wednesday afternoon.
The large story of the sport was middle fielder Jackson Merrill’s two-run homer within the third to provide the Padres a 4-0 lead. His 388-foot shot into proper middle could not have come at a greater time, as a result of earlier within the day the Padres had given him an enormous nine-year, $135M contract extension that he instantly made good on.
Merrill, 21, is hitting .417 this early season with an OBP of .444. He has 10 hits, two house runs and eight RBI to date.
That house run bought the headlines and it was the feel-good story of the day, however the backdrop to all of it is that San Diego’s 7-0 begin is historic.
That is one of the best begin in franchise historical past by the Padres, and so they’re enjoying unimaginable baseball. They swept the Atlanta Braves to start out the season and have now swept the Guardians.
The Padres are second in MLB in workforce batting common at .299 and first in workforce ERA at 1.50. They’re doing it with each offense and protection.
“It’s simply been nice baseball all the way in which round,” Fernando Tatis Jr. stated, in line with AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. “We’ve an amazing ballclub over right here, and we got here out of the gate on the best foot.”
“It’s simply good baseball each evening,” supervisor Mike Shildt added. “… We are able to beat you in a variety of alternative ways.”
Maybe extra spectacular than their historic begin is the truth that the Padres have been in a position to match the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers (additionally 7-0) within the NL West.
Up subsequent for San Diego is an away sequence in opposition to the Chicago Cubs.
