Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres

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Miami Marlins

76-79, 31-46 Away

Final
6 - 7

San Diego Padres

86-69, 48-29 Home

Rookie Salas has walk-off single in 10th as Padres beat Marlins 7-6, reduce magic number to 3

Miami Marlins vs. San Diego Padres: Game Highlights

Salas, the Padres' top prospect who was called up Sept. 1, punched a single up the middle on an 0-2 pitch from Josh Ekness (2-4) and his teammates mobbed him in a wild celebration that ended up in the outfield.

Cronenworth, the automatic runner, advanced on a wild pitch. David Morgan (4-1) got the victory.

The winning hit came an inning after pinch-hitter Griffin Conine drove a towering, tying homer off Mason Miller with one out in the ninth.

The Padres won for the 12th time in 13 games and remained tied with the Chicago Cubs at 86-69 for the National League's top wild-card spot, although the Cubs hold the tiebreaker. The Philadelphia Phillies lost 10-3 to the New York Mets to drop a game back.

The earliest the Padres can clinch a wild-card spot is Tuesday night at the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

Miller was trying for a five-out save when Connine hit a 102-mph four-seamer an estimated 427 feet to right, his 17th.

Fernando Tatis Jr. tied it at 5 with a solo homer leading off the fourth off Eury Pérez for the Padres, who on Sunday will go for their second sweep of the Marlins this season.

Ty France then punched an opposite-field double over the outstretched glove of right fielder Esteury Ruiz with two outs in the sixth to bring in Dustin Harris, who was aboard on a one-out opposite field double to left. Harris extended his hitting streak to nine games.

The Marlins roughed up Casey Mize through three innings to take a 5-1 lead, including Otto Lopez's two-run home run, his 11th, in the second.

San Diego's Samad Taylor homered off Pérez in the second, his second, and the Padres scored three in the third, including on Jake Cronenworth's bases-loaded walk.

Up next Marlins RHP Sandy Alcantara (13-10, 3.85 ERA) and Padres RHP Walker Buehler (8-6, 4.58) were scheduled to start Sunday in the series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	10th Inning	Salas singled to center, Cronenworth scored.
	10th Inning	Salas hit for Fermin
	10th Inning	Song struck out swinging.
	10th Inning	Cronenworth to third on wild pitch by Ekness.
	10th Inning	Ekness relieved Vodnik
	10th Inning	Hernández lined out to center.

Statistics

MIA		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	12
14	Strikeouts	11
6	Runs Batted In	6
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	11
5	Stolen Bases	3
9	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
37	At Bats	38
2	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
21	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
1	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
15	Fly Balls	16
1	Caught Stealing	0
203	Pitches	180
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	19
47	Plate Appearances	45
324.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	4
8.3	Runs Created	8.2
.270	Batting Average	.289
.500	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.459	Slugging Percentage	.500
.541	Secondary Average	.421
.413	On Base Percentage	.378
.873	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.878
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
7.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.9
47.0	Batter Rating	50.0
18.5	At Bats Per Home Run	19.0
0.83	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.32	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.189	Isolated Power	.211
0.64	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.45
.191	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
.270	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.132
12.0	Runs Produced	13.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.4
91.3	MLB Rating	95.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0