ATLANTA – Manny Machado’s two-run double in the eighth gave San Diego the lead and the Padres rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.
The Braves blew a 5-0 lead, wasting a strong start from Reynaldo López for their fourth straight loss, their longest losing streak of the season. Machado’s double Joe Jiménez (1-1) brought in Jurickson Profar and Jake Cronenworth to cap a four-run inning. Cronenworth previously scored two runs in the inning.
Marcell Ozuna and Matt Olson hit back-to-back homers in the third inning for Atlanta, which had 12 hits after combining for two runs and 11 hits while losing the first two games of the series.
Ronald Acuña Jr. had three of the Braves’ nine hits in four innings against Dylan Cease, who previously hadn’t given up more than six hits in a game this season.
Home runs by Ozuna and Olson to open a three-run third marked the first time Cease allowed more than one long pass in a game this season. He gave up just three in his first nine starts.
Olson and Michael Harris II had single scores in the first.
López allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings in the matchup against Cease, his former Chicago White Sox teammate.
Jhony Brito (1-2) gave up a hit in the scoreless seventh for the Padres. Robert Suarez, helped by shortstop Ha-Seong Kim’s dive on a Harris fly ball in shallow center field, pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save.
San Diego right-hander Randy Vásquez was scheduled to face Atlanta’s Chris Sale in Monday night’s second game.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: Second baseman Xander Bogaerts apparently injured his left shoulder and left the game in the third inning. Bogaerts was injured diving for Acuña’s loaded single. Tyler Wade replaced Bogaerts. … Right-hander Logan Gillaspie, promoted from Triple-A Texas-El Paso to serve as the 27th man in the doubleheader, pitched two scoreless innings.
Braves: Right-hander Daysbel Hernández bounced back from a tough spot in a scoreless ninth after being promoted from Triple-A Gwinnett to serve as the 27th man. … Right-hander Jackson Stephens was voted a free agent after declining his outright assignment to Gwinnett. … Catcher Travis d’Arnaud (head contusion) was expected to return for the second game. Catcher Sean Murphy (left oblique strain), who has been out since March 30, is expected to begin his rehabilitation mission.
NEXT
Padres: Right-hander Joe Musgrove (3-3, 6.37) is expected to return from the 15-day injured list after recovering from right elbow inflammation when the Padres open a three-game series at Cincinnati on Tuesday night .
Braves: Right-hander Charlie Morton (3-1, 3.52) will face right-hander Javier Assad (4-0, 1.49) when the Braves open a three-game series in Chicago on Tuesday night.
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