Facing elimination in the first round of the postseason, the San Diego Pedres rallied Thursday to win Game 2 of their NL Wild Card Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Pedres returned with an 11-9 victory in the exclusive ‘Slam Diego’ fashion.
In the sixth inning, Pedres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., a three-run homer from cards reliever Giovanni Gallegos. Third baseman Manny Machado claimed his solo shot in the next at-bat to tie the game at-6. Machado’s 414-foot home run recorded an exit speed of 110.4 miles per hour and Tatis blasted it at 377 feet with an exit speed of 103.3 miles per hour.
It was a sign of things to come.
Veteran Will Myers got involved in Homer’s fun when he started the seventh inning with a solo blast to give San Diego a 7–6 first lead of the series. After four batsmen later returned to the Thirty Plate, the 21-year-old Wonderkind criticized the game’s second home run, a two-run shot that could have taken the lead to 9-7. He enjoyed the moment by flipping the bat vigorously.
Myers added a shot straight into the center field in the eighth inning – and two more insurance runs – and added another long ball. The explosion was ultimately one of the game’s toughest hit balls, with an exit velocity of 107.1 mph.
Myers shot was necessary for San Diego, as Paul Goldsmith sat for the Cardinals in the ninth, and it was historic. T. Tiss and Myers became only the second pair of teammates to record multi-homer games in the same postseason contest. The pair they joined? 1932 Babe Ruth and Lou Lou Gehrig of the Yankees.
All together, Thursday night runs five houses in Pedres Connected to the second most By the MLB team in the postseason. The Chicago Cubs (six home) were the only team to record more in Game 3 of the 2015 NLDS.
Probably even more impressive, because Sarah Langs of MLB Point out, the fact that San Diego, became the first team in postseason history with five or more home runs from the sixth inning in the game.
No team has recorded more comeback wins in this year’s brief res0-game season, and now they have added once again with Thursday’s win. He will probably take the game-let-take, but eventually Pedres has announced his presence at the stage in October and will decide to see if he is going to stay in Friday’s Game 3.
