Ninth-inning home runs from Kyle Higashioka, Brandon Lockridge, Donovan Solano sink Arizona
San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Vasquez throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning during a baseball game, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Phoenix. Saturday’s return to the mound in a meaningless game for the Padres provided a reminder to a Diamondbacks team still trying to play its way into October.
Then Kyle Higashioka pulled a first-pitch slider out to left for his 17th homer and Lockridge, who might make the postseason roster as a pinch-runner extraordinaire, followed with the first homer of his career. Before the inning was over, Donovan Solano mashed a two-run homer off right-hander Scott McGough for his eighth of the season and fourth hit of the game.
Vásquez’s ERA had swelled to 5.18 by the time he was last optioned to Triple-A El Paso on Sept. 1, but he’d thrown five quality starts among his first 19 trips to the mound as the Padres waded through a large chunk of the season without Joe Musgrove and Yu Darvish.
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