{"id":457912,"date":"2023-09-02T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457912"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T06:48:41","slug":"tatis-and-soto-home-runs-push-padres-for-a-7-3-win-over-giants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tatis-and-soto-home-runs-push-padres-for-a-7-3-win-over-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatis and Soto home runs push Padres for a 7-3 win over Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Tatis and Juan Soto hit consecutive home runs in the first inning for San Diego Padres&#8217; 7-3 win over San Francisco on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>This drops the Giants into a tie with Arizona for the final NL wild card and the battle for it promises to be epic. The Giants had won four of five coming in, including 7-2 in the opener of this series Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Wacha held the Giants to two runs and six hits in six innings and the Padres bounced back from a very disappointing performance on Thursday night to win for just the second time in eight games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Wacha&#8217;s six strikeouts<\/p>\n<p>Michael Wacha dishes six strikeouts in six innings pitched in a start vs. Giants<\/p>\n<p>Giants @ Padres<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BringTheGold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BringTheGold<\/a> | September 1, 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TEHJWnLaTC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TEHJWnLaTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego Strong (@PadresStrong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PadresStrong\/status\/1697828218366230680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Padres entered the game 8 1\/2 games out of the last wild-card spot and a season-high 11 games under .500. They\u2019ve been a huge disappointment after reaching the NL Championship Series last fall and even increasing their salary budget up to about $250 million, the third-highest in the majors. Despite all that, they\u2019ve been under .500 since May 12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Tatis and Juan Soto hit consecutive home runs in the first inning for San Diego Padres&#8217; 7-3 win over San Francisco on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":457914,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17268,16903],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[17864,18537],"acf":{"announce":"This drops the Giants into a tie with Arizona for the final NL wild card","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457919,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457912\/revisions\/457919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457912"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457912"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}