Padres score 5 in 11th inning, beat Diamondbacks to even series

PHOENIX — The Padres got a big night from their new left fielder, who set them up for a victory.

Then their new relief pitcher allowed a mammoth game-tying home run on a blazing fastball.

So they played a little more, scored five runs in the top of the 11th against Jake Woodford, the sixth relief pitcher to work for the Diamondbacks, and held on to win 10-5.

David Morgan, the Padres’ seventh reliever of the night, retired the Diamondbacks in order in the bottom of the 11th.

Robert Suarez got the win after recording the final two outs of the ninth inning and working a scoreless 10th.

The 11th inning began with Luis Arraez’s bloop single to left field, driving in automatic runner Fernando Tatis Jr. from second base. Arraez went to third on Manny Machado’s line drive single to left field and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jackson Merrill.

A single by Xander Boagerts moved Machado to second, and both runners moved up two bases on a single by Ramón Laureano that made it 8-5. Bogaerts scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by Jake Cronenworth. Singles by Jose Iglesias and Freddy Fermín brought Cronenworth around.

It was Laureano who doubled in the seventh inning to put the Padres up 5-3. He finished the night 3-for-6 with a triple, a double and three RBIs and is 8-for-23 with a home run, two triples, a double and five RBIs in his five games with the Padres.

The extra innings were necessary after Mason Miller, acquired from the Athletics at last Thursday’s trade deadline, yielded a game-tying homer to Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in the eighth inning.

Miller left a 103.9 mph fastball up in the zone, in just about the same place he left a 104.1 mph fastball a pitch earlier.

Gurriel fouled off the first one, which was the fastest pitch thrown by a Padres pitcher since at least 2015. He turned the second one around at 107.1 mph off the bat, and the ball sailed 439 feet to the seats beyond left field for his second two-run homer of the night.

It was the fastest pitch hit for a home run since at least 2008, when StatCast began tracking pitch velocity.

That followed scoreless innings by Adrian Morejón, Jason Adam and Jeremiah Estrada.

But a clean getaway was not meant to be in a game that started loud before it got quiet and then got wild.

The Padres drew four consecutive two-out walks to tie the game in the sixth inning.

Machado led off the seventh against Kendall Graveman with a double that fell to the base of the wall and just out of left fielder Jake McCarthy’s reach. Merrill followed with a walk, and Laureano drove them both in with a one-out double.

Their comeback in the sixth — on three walks by Kyle Nelson and one by Andrew Hoffman — came after Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson struck out the first two batters of the inning.

Kyle Nelson found the strike zone with just three of his 15 pitches to Cronenworth, Iglesias and Fermín. Tatis drew the final walk by taking a 3-1 pitch that nicked the strike zone but was called a ball.

The inning ended when Arraez hit a fly ball out to left field.

Adam, the Padres’ second reliever of the night, began the sixth inning by getting two routine grounders to shortstop. But only the first of those turned into an out.

The second, hit by Gurriel, was fielded cleanly by Bogaerts, who then sailed a throw over Arraez at first base that bounced into the Padres’ dugout. With Gurriel at second base after the error, Adam walked Tyler Locklear before getting another grounder to Bogaerts behind second base. Bogaerts stepped on the bag and threw to first — well up the line, pulling Arraez off the bag. But Arraez leaped to catch the ball and put a swiping tag on McCarthy.

Darvish ran into some trouble for three batters between the second and third innings and then had two pitches get away from him in a span of three batters in the fourth.

That was enough for him to depart having thrown 72 pitches in those four innings, having allowed three hits and walking two batters while striking out five.

Darvish paid the price for a two-out walk and a fastball in the heart of the zone in the first inning when Gurriel sent that fastball 404 feet to the seats beyond left field.

The Padres tied the game before an out was made in the second inning.

It took six pitches for Bogaerts to launch a 419-foot home run, Laureano to drive a 109.5 mph line drive that split the fielders in right-center and rolled to the wall as he ran to third and Cronenworth to line a double to left-center.

Cronenworth ended up stranded on third base after a groundout, strikeout and fly ball out to left field.

McCarthy led off the bottom of the third with a triple to right-center field, and it certainly appeared it was going to be that kind of game.

But a groundout to third base kept McCarthy at third base before a grounder by Thomas resulted in second baseman Cronenworth throwing out McCarthy at home. Thomas was then thrown out when he took off trying to steal and Darvish threw behind him to Arraez, who fired to Bogaerts covering second for the out.

The Diamondbacks’ next hit was Geraldo Perdomo’s double leading off the fourth inning, a slicing fly ball that bounced in and out of Laureano’s glove as he slid on his knees. A yanked sinker well outside and off catcher Elías Díaz’s glove allowed Perdomo to get to third, leaving Darvish to try to get out of the same jam he escaped in the second inning — a runner on third with no outs.

Despite not allowing another hit and striking out three batters, he would not be successful because another wild pitch allowed Perdomo to run home with the go-ahead run.

The Padres had gotten four, five and five innings from their starting pitchers the previous three games.

But with an extra man in their bullpen following the afternoon call-up of Sean Reynolds to replace starter JP Sears, Padres manager Mike Shildt had Morejón up and ready before Darvish ended the fourth.

Morejón began the bottom of the fifth and kept the deficit at one.

The Padres had Ryne Nelson up to 75 pitches entering the fifth inning with a chance to get into the Diamondbacks’ shaky bullpen. But Nelson got through that inning in 13 pitches and was able to get two outs deep in the sixth before being pulled after an even 100 pitches.