Padres' 5-game winning streak ends in blowout loss to Giants
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The San Diego Padres' season-high, five-game winning streak ended with another great outing by San Francisco rookie Chris Heston and a barrage of Giants home runs.
Heston took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Hector Sanchez hit an impressive grand slam for one of three Giants home runs in a 9-3 victory over the Padres on Tuesday night.
Heston, who no-hit the New York Mets on June 9, allowed one hit and faced just two over the minimum in 7 1-3 innings. He received a standing ovation from the many Giants fans in the stands above the third-base dugout when he was pulled by manager Bruce Bochy after issuing a one-out walk in the seventh. He struck out six and walked two.
"He was on it," Padres interim manager Pat Murphy said. "He made some great pitches, quality pitches. He took enough off his breaking ball that he was awfully good."
Heston, who threw 116 pitches, and two relievers combined on a four-hitter. The Padres scored three unearned runs in the ninth.
Heston (10-5) didn't allow a hit until Melvin Upton Jr.'s broken-bat, bloop single over the outstretched glove of second baseman Joe Panik leading off the sixth. Upton was erased on a double play.
Otherwise, Heston shut down the Padres. The 27-year-old right-hander didn't allow a baserunner until he hit Matt Kemp with a pitch with two outs in the fourth. The pitch hit Kemp on the left arm and caromed off his right shoulder, knocking him to the ground. Kemp, who came in with a season-high, eight-game hitting streak, left the game after flying out in the seventh.
Sanchez's bat flip after his moonshot grand slam in the sixth angered the Padres. After Sanchez grounded out in the ninth, Padres pitcher Shawn Kelley said something to him as he headed back to the dugout and both benches and bullpens cleared. The umps restored order.
Sanchez's grand slam gave San Francisco a 9-0 lead.
Padres starter Odrisamer Despaigne allowed Hunter Pence's infield single leading off the sixth and made way for Dale Thayer. Thayer struck out Brandon Belt before allowing a single to Brandon Crawford and a walk to Gregor Blanco before Sanchez drove a 93-mph fastball an estimated 428 feet into the seats. It was his second career slam and the sixth by the Giants this season.
Pence hit a 434-foot home run that almost landed in the Giants' bullpen beyond the fence in left-center leading off the second. It was his fifth. Another run scored on a double play.
Crawford gave the Giants a 5-0 lead when he hit a three-run homer into the Jack Daniel's party deck atop the right field wall with one out in the fourth. It was his 13th.
Despaigne (3-7) allowed six runs and seven hits in five-plus innings, struck out one and walked two.
"I felt good but on the other side they attacked the zone," Despaigne said through an interpreter. "They have good hitters on their side and they made some contact and things went their way. I think they hit the ball hard sometimes when I had two strikes. I hadn't pitched in 11 days and it was 17 days since my last start and I think that was the difference today."
TRAINER'S ROOM
Giants: Bochy said LHP Jeremy Affeldt, on the DL with a strained left shoulder, threw another bullpen session and could be activated this weekend. ... Bochy didn't have an update on RHP Tim Lincecum, who had cortisone shots in both hips on Monday for a degenerative condition. Bochy said Lincecum, who's also on the DL, will try and throw in four days.
Padres: Assistant general manager Josh Stein said LF Justin Upton is expected to return to the lineup before this homestand ends Sunday. He's been out since Sunday with a strained muscle in his side. ... RHP Brandon Morrow, on the DL since early May, will throw a bullpen Wednesday and then is expected to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A El Paso this weekend.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Matt Cain (1-1, 5.06 ERA) is scheduled to make his fourth start of the season in the series finale. Cain had elbow surgery in 2014 and had been sidelined this season with a strained flexor tendon.
Padres: RHP James Shields (8-3, 3.92) hopes he doesn't have to wait as long for his ninth victory as he did his eighth. It took him eight starts in a span of six weeks to get his eighth win, a 4-2 decision over Colorado on Friday.
