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 heart fielder Jackson Merrill’s two-run homer within the third to present the Padres a 4-0 lead. His 388-foot shot into proper heart could not have come at a greater time, as a result of earlier within the day the Padres had given him a large 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 thus far.
That house run obtained 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 the very best begin in franchise historical past by the Padres, and so they’re taking part in unbelievable baseball. They swept the Atlanta Braves to begin the season and have now swept the Guardians.
The Padres are second in MLB in group batting common at .299 and first in group ERA at 1.50. They’re doing it with each offense and protection.
“It’s simply been nice baseball all the best way round,” Fernando Tatis Jr. mentioned, in accordance with AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. “We have now an excellent ballclub over right here, and we got here out of the gate on the correct foot.”
“It’s simply good baseball each night time,” supervisor Mike Shildt added. “… We are able to beat you in plenty of other 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.
