San Diego flips script, generates more production on road in 2022
In baseball, playing at home is supposed to be the great un-equalizer. Feast while sleeping in your own bed. Refresh and reinvigorate with short commutes and fans screaming until opponents melt in their overheated spikes.The cellar-dwelling Diamondbacks dodged a sweep the Padres sorely could have used Sunday as mental salve and a springboard into the All-Star break after weeks of struggling.
hardest in which to triple and bottom-third in home runs. Marine layer? Barometric pressure? Carne asada smoke?“The ball doesn’t carry as much here, but we’re not really a power team right now,” Melvin said. “… We just haven’t played well enough at home. We need to play better at home if we’re going to go where we want to go.”In just three fewer games at home entering Sunday, the Padres’ average was .256 away from Petco and .224 inside the supposedly comfy confines. The OPS, 87 points lower.
Fan frustration crescendoed in the seventh, when suddenly wobbly MacKenzie Gore erased just one of the four hitters he faced, walking Josh Rojas on four pitches to load the bases.
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