Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres

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Miami Marlins

76-78, 31-45 Away

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San Diego Padres

85-69, 47-29 Home

Ty France's 3-run homer helps Padres to 8-2 win over Marlins and into tie for top NL wild-card spot

The Cubs and Phillies both lost just around first pitch in San Diego. Then the Padres erased a 1-0 deficit to win for the 11th time in 12 games.

Chicago, Philadelphia and San Diego are even at 85-69 for the three NL wild cards — five games ahead of Arizona with eight to play. But the Padres would lose tiebreakers against the Cubs and Phillies for the No. 1 spot and the right to host an opening round. The Cubs beat the Padres 2-1 in the wild-card round in Chicago last season.

Miami (76-78) was eliminated from the postseason race.

France, who signed a minor league deal during spring training, hit the first pitch he saw from reliever Tyler Zuber off the balcony on the third level of the Western Metal Supply Co. brick warehouse in the left-field corner with two outs in the fifth to bring in Fernando Tatis Jr. and Dustin Harris to make it 6-1.

France paused for a moment to watch his career-high 21st homer sail away and then tossed his bat and began his trot. France played at San Diego State for Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and is in his second stint with the Padres.

Tatis hit an RBI single with the bases loaded and one out, and Harris followed with a two-run single.

Agustín Ramírez, Miami's No. 9 batter, lined a homer off Nick Pivetta into the seats in left field with one out in the third, his fifth.

That was the only big mistake by Pivetta (3-2), who allowed one run and four hits in five innings while striking out four and walking one.

San Diego's Jackson Merrill homered in the eighth, his 26th.

Cade Gibson (5-2) took the loss in relief.

Up next Marlins RHP Eury Pérez (7-11, 3.99 ERA) and Padres RHP Casey Mize (6-9, 3.69) are scheduled to start Saturday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Stowers grounded into double play, first to shortstop to pitcher, Ramírez out at second.
	9th Inning	Ramírez reached on infield single to second, Edwards to second.
	9th Inning	Navarreto struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Edwards reached on infield single to second.
	9th Inning	Canning relieved Morejon
	8th Inning	Machado struck out swinging.

Statistics

MIA		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
10	Ground Balls	12
7	Strikeouts	10
2	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	12
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	35
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	20
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
19	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
137	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	19
37	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
4.1	Runs Created	7.4
.278	Batting Average	.343
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.417	Slugging Percentage	.543
.167	Secondary Average	.314
.297	On Base Percentage	.410
.714	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.953
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
4.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.3
25.0	Batter Rating	53.0
36.0	At Bats Per Home Run	17.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.70	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.79
.139	Isolated Power	.200
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.30
.027	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.077
-.111	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.029
4.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
80.0	MLB Rating	99.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0