Jorge Alfaro hit a two-run, bases-loaded single with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Padres 6-5 over the Diamondbacks Tuesday night.
SAN DIEGO — Silence resonated in the visitors’ clubhouse on Tuesday night, a stillness that tends to follow brutal defeats. The Diamondbacks suffered one of those, a 6-5 gut-punch of a loss to the San Diego Padres, a game that would hurt no matter the circumstances.
For the past two weeks, they have played their best baseball of the year, racking up wins with an inspiring, team-oriented style of play. As they crept ever closer to the .500 mark, they began to think not just that they could be a winning team — some players had begun to talk in hushed tones about sneaking into a National League wild-card race filled with struggling teams.
Josh Rojas, Daulton Varsho and Christian Walker each homered. Corbin Carroll reached base three times. Kelly worked seven innings for the seventh time in his past nine starts, then handed off a one-run lead to his bullpen. Kennedy got Ha-Seong Kim to pop to right for the second out, but Wil Myers lined a fastball into center for a single and Jose Azocar battled through nine pitches to work a walk, bringing Alfaro to the plate with the bases loaded.
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