Left-hander Wes Benjamin debuts with perfect inning, fellow lefty Tom Cosgrove bounces back; Fernando Tatis Jr. reaches base twice
The Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. waits to bat during a spring training workout on Feb. 19, 2025. Fernando Tatis Jr. singled in his first at-bat and walked his second time up. He is 2-for-7 this spring. … Jason Heyward was 0-for-2 and is hitless in 10 at-bats this spring.
… Yuli Gurriel was 1-for-3 with his first double of the spring. Gurriel, who started at first base and is a candidate to serve as the Padres’ DH this season, is 3-for-12 in six games. … Outfielder Oscar Gonzalez had a pinch-hit single in the ninth inning and is batting .348 this spring. … Jake Cronenworth walked. He is just 2-for-13 this spring, but six of the past seven balls he has put in play have been hard hit .Michael King loaded the bases with one out in the first inning — on two walks and a hit batter — but made it through two innings without allowing a run. The right-hander threw 31 pitches and struck out three in his Cactus League debut. … Left-hander Wes Benjamin, signed to a minor-league deal on Feb. 25 after spending the past three seasons pitching in Korea, worked a 1-2-3 inning in his first game of spring. … Closer Robert Suarez allowed a single and struck out two in a scoreless inning. That followed an outing Sunday in which he walked three and allowed two hits while retiring one batter. Suarez threw six changeups among his 23 pitches Wednesday. He also threw a new pitch, a sort of slurve that was registered by Statcast as a cutter but was 7-10 mph slower than the cutter Suarez has thrown in past seasons. … Left-hander Tom Cosgrove struck out two in working his first clean inning in four outings this spring. … Alek Jacob also struck out two in a perfect inning. He has allowed one run and struck out six in his three Cactus League innings.Former Padres catcher Austin Nola subbed in at first base for the Rockies on Wednesday. He is in their camp on a minor-league deal. … Padres minor-league pitcher Jake Higginbotham had a rough outing , but he was certainly confident about the strike zone. He challenged two ball calls by home plate umpire Nic Lentz, winning one of them.Right-hander Dylan Cease, who finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting in 2024, makes his Cactus League debut Thursday, 12:05 p.m. PT in Surprise, Ariz., against the Rangers.Illumina cuts workforce at San Diego headquartersChina hits Illumina with import ban. What does that mean for the San Diego gene sequencer?High rents, fewer vouchers, longer waits: Federal cuts could worsen housing affordability in San Diego, officials saySan Diego’s self-described ‘king of coke’ sentenced for trafficking drugs, recruiting cartel hitmenRady Shell summer season will include Smokey Robinson, Beck, Cynthia Erivo and the Beach Boys
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