San Diego 3, Colorado 1
When: 4:10 PM ET, Sunday, April 2, 2023
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature:
62°
Umpires:
Home -
Nestor Ceja, 1B -
Brian O'Nora, 3B -
Pat Hoberg
Attendance:
43972
By Field Level Media
Trent Grisham and Xander Bogaerts homered in the third inning and Seth Lugo took a shutout into the seventh inning of his team debut as the San Diego Padres defeated the visiting Colorado Rockies 3-1 Sunday afternoon to earn a split of their season-opening series.
Grisham homered to center off Rockies starter Austin Gomber with one out in the third for the game's first run. The Padres center fielder drove an 0-1 pitch 419 feet for his 12th career homer against the Rockies.
Jose Azocar followed with an infield single up the third-base line to bring up Bogaerts, who hit his second homer in as many games -- pulling a breaking ball 413 feet, the ball landing in the second balcony of the Western Metal Building down the left field line at Petco Park.
Lugo, who joined the Padres as a free agent last December, allowed one run on four hits and no walks with seven strikeouts over seven innings. He threw only 93 pitches.
Colorado's only run was a one-out home run in the seventh by Ryan McMahon.
Kris Bryant and Charlie Blackmon hit back-to-back singles in the first to put Rockies at the corners with one out. But Lugo retired C.J. Cron on a comebacker and McMahon on a fly to center. After Blackmon's single, Lugo retired 14 straight Rockies before Brian Serven led off the sixth with a single.
Lugo was making his first regular-season start since 2020 after exclusively coming out of the New York Mets' bullpen in the past two seasons.
After Lugo departed, Luis Garcia struck out two in a scoreless eighth and Josh Hader picked up his first save of the season with a perfect ninth.
Free agent addition Bogaerts went 6-for-14 in his first four games with the Padres with two doubles, two homers and five RBIs.
The four-game series drew 174,915, a record for a four-game series at Petco Park. The game was played in two hours and three minutes.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Colorado |
|
San Diego |
Austin Gomber
|
Player |
Seth Lugo
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
6.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
4 |
Strikeouts |
7 |
4 |
Hits |
4 |
4.50 |
ERA |
1.29 |
Hitting
Colorado |
|
San Diego |
Brian Serven | Player |
Trent Grisham
|
1 |
Hits |
1 |
0 |
RBI |
1 |
0 |
HR |
1 |
1 |
TB |
4 |
.500 |
Avg |
.500 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Colorado
|
4 |
1 |
7 |
.129 |
8 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
San Diego
|
4 |
2 |
10 |
.148 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |