Joe Musgrove allowed just one run while going seven innings for the first time this season and Ha-Seong Kim, Xander Bogaerts and Juan Soto each homered and drove in three runs Friday night as the San Diego Padres defeated the visiting Washington Nationals 13-3.
Musgrove (6-2) scattered six hits and struck out seven without issuing a walk in the opener of a three-game series.
Kim homered to lead off the Padres’ first inning against Nationals left-hander Patrick Corbin, then singled in two runs in his team’s six-run fifth inning. After Manny Machado’s RBI groundout, Bogaerts capped the burst with his three-run bomb off Corbin.
The Padres sent nine hitters to the plate in both the fifth and their four-run seventh.
Over their past two games, the Padres have scored 23 runs on 26 hits while going 11-for-24 with runners in scoring position. San Diego is batting a major-league-worst .205 in those situations this year.
Corbin (4-9) gave up seven runs on seven hits, three walks and a hit batter with two strikeouts in five innings. Reliever Chad Kuhl gave up four runs on four hits in the seventh. Soto doubled in one run, Nelson Cruz singled in two, and Trent Grisham singled in another.
Soto followed an inning-opening double by Fernando Tatis Jr. in the eighth with his 14th homer of the season. It came off right-handed Nationals reliever Thaddeus Ward.
Washington was trailing 7-0 when it finally scored off Musgrove in the sixth. Jeimer Candelario doubled with two out and scored on a single by Joey Meneses.
Nationals pinch hitter Michael Chavis opened the ninth with a homer off Ray Kerr. They added a third run on back-to-back, two-out doubles by Derek Hill and CJ Abrams. Eight of the Nationals’ 10 hits went for extra bases.
Kim put the Padres ahead 1-0 on Corbin’s third pitch of the game with the first game-opening home run of his career. His seventh long ball of the season was a 411-foot drive to straightaway center.
–Field Level Media
