San Diego Padres star Manny Machado reached a big private milestone on Saturday afternoon by clubbing the three hundredth dwelling run of his profession in a 6-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
There was nothing low-cost about it, both.
Machado reached the milestone by crushing a 425-foot no-doubter dwelling run to the second deck of Residents Financial institution Park to briefly give the Padres a 4-3 lead within the eighth inning.
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Machado is the one participant in Main League historical past to have signed two totally different $300M contracts (each with the Padres) so it’s considerably becoming that he hit dwelling run No. 300 with the staff.
The unhealthy information for the Padres is that lead can be quick lived as their bullpen was unable to carry onto it, permitting three runs to the Phillies within the backside of the eighth inning.
The Padres have been one in all baseball’s greatest disappointments this season and are 4 video games underneath .500 heading into the second half of Saturday’s doubleheader. They’d World Collection expectations after one other spherical of star participant additions this offseason however have been unable to place all of it collectively.
Machado has had a superb season, however it isn’t as much as the usual he has set for himself offensively. That’s simply one of many many causes San Diego has struggled a lot.
Philadelphia additionally had a sluggish begin to the season after final 12 months’s journey to the World Collection, however have quickly turned issues round and are one of many hottest groups in baseball over the previous two months.
