SAN DIEGO – Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and the rest of the San Diego Padres were too much for winless Madison Bumgarner and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Dinelson Lamet was brilliant in taking a no-hitter in the seventh inning and Tatis continued with his remarkable power stop with a two-run homer from Bumgarner, who allowed four of San Diego’s club record six long balls then the Padres de Diamondbacks 9- beat 9- 5 on Sunday.
Machado homerated twice from Bumgarner. Wil Myers, Francisco Mejia and Ty France also went deep for San Diego.
Lamet (2-0) allowed only one baserunner, on a hit from pitch, until Kole Calhoun homered on a 2-0 pitch that lay off the seventh. Lamet got two more outs before manager Jayce Tingler pulled him in favor of rookie Luis Patino.
Lamet pulled out the first 14 Diamondbacks fights, hitting 11 overall and running none in 6 2/3 innings. The hard throwing right-hander hit Andy Young with a pitch with two outs in the fifth, but otherwise Arizona held from the bases to Calhoun’s homer.
The Padres remain the only major league team without a no-hitter, having played 8,154 games without one since 1969.
“The saying we have is hope is the last thing you lose,” Lamet said. “I’m not there first pitch, first hitter, and thought, ‘OK, today I’ll throw a no-hitter.’ I’m going out to get outs. I’m getting a man forward, getting two strikes, I’m trying to get quick outs, I’m trying to get you out with as few pitches as possible. I’m attacking. So in my mind the result will be for himself take care. “
Machado said Lamet had been incarcerated since Saturday.
“He told me yesterday, ‘Hey, hold on to the fort today, because tomorrow I’ll come in with some gas and I’ll put out that fire.’ “Today since the first pitch he was ready to go,” Machado said.
Lamet confirmed that conversation, saying, “Luckily, we were able to go out there and I was able to put in a good effort and we won the game.”
San Diego took two of three in the series and is 5-2 against Arizona this season. With the Padres leading 9-1, Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly grabbed the eighth. He doubled Rookie’s lead Jake Cronenworth before pulling the ball away.
Arizona knocked out a couple of two-run homers from the San Diego bull in the ninth.
Machado homerated Bumgarner in the first and second, and Myers also tied against the wrestling of the left-hander, who was ready after two innings, corresponding to his career low.
France and Mejia homerated reliever Taylor Widener in the third.
The six homers were the most Padres has ever met at home. It was the first time they had hit six homers in the first three innings, and just the fifth time that happened in 20 years in the major.
Tatis, the son of the former big league infielder, rode a 2-2 curve, an estimated 418 feet in the second deck with two outs in the second, his eighth homer, for a 5-0 lead. The 21-year-old shortstop has hit five in the last four games and six in six games. He hit four in this series, including leadoff shots Friday and Saturday nights. He connected twice Saturday night.
Tatis has been based in 17 straight games dated to his last game of 2019, on August 13th. He missed the rest of the season with a stress reaction in his lower back, but still finished third in the voting rights of NL Rookie of the Year.
“At 21, he’s a freak athlete, he gets stronger, he lifts, he runs, he moves well,” Tingler said. “He can get barrel to ball, maybe on some more lanes he couldn’t. He worked on his swing, that made it short. You see how the ball comes off the ball. He can leave the ballpark.”
Machado homered with one out in the first and Myers hit a two-run shot with two outs. Myers’ fifth homer brought to France, on board for a walk.
After Tatis’ homer, Machado reconnected, his third.
France greeted Widener with a homer leading from the third, and Mejia struck a two-run drive from the right-hand field pole with two outs. They were the first of the season for both.
Bumgarner (0-3) wrestles with the Diamondbacks, who gave him an $ 85 million, five-year contract in December after spending a decade with the San Francisco Giants, helping them to three World Series to win titles in five seasons.
He had six runs and five hits in two innings, knocked out two and ran two.
Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said the 31-year-old Bumgarner left after recovering from spasms.
Bumgarner also lost on opening day, 7-2, against the Padres.
Young hit his first career homer, a two-run Patino with one out in the ninth, and Nick Ahmed had a two-run from Tim Hill.
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