SAN DIEGO -- The high-flying, tater-mashing, bat-flipping Padres have finally arrived in the postseason. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell. Resourceful Rays are once again a club to copy, Postseason baseball is as passionate as ever, Fernando Tatis Jr. It was fifth career post-season shot. Myers hit a go-ahead leadoff shot in the seventh off losing pitcher Daniel Ponce de Leon and a two-run homer in the eighth. Wong, who had just one homer in the regular season, gave the Cardinals a 4-0 lead with a no-doubt, two-run shot to deep right field off Zach Davies with one out in the second. Those players are great players.”. Who else but Tatis, Manny? San Diego dug itself an early four-run deficit for the second consecutive night, as starter Zach Davies was chased after two innings. , The Canadian Press. With Austin Nola aboard on a walk, Tatis hit a no-doubt, opposite field shot to right with two outs in the seventh. The Cardinals scored two unearned runs in the eight, both on sacrifice flies, after Tatis committed a throwing error at shortstop. SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. and Wil Myers each hit two home runs and Manny Machado also connected for the San Diego Padres, who rallied to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-9 Thursday night to force a deciding Game 3 in their NL wild-card series. Genesis Cabrera opened the sixth by walking Nola and rookie Jake Cronenworth before striking out Trent Grisham and making way for Giovanny Gallegos. Fernando Tatis Jr. on Twitter Fernando Tatis Jr. on Instagram Last edited on 10 October 2020, at 21:39 Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise … The Padres still trailed by four in the sixth when Cardinals manager Mike Shildt called for Giovanny Gallegos to face Tatis with two men aboard. He's become the head of the household when it comes to MLB. Tatis added to that cushion with his two-run shot and his ensuing bat flip -- an instant challenger of Jose Bautista’s for the best in postseason history. Tatis hit a three-run homer with two outs in the sixth and Machado followed with a tying shot. And he’s doing it with his usual bat-flipping flair. The first four losses were to St. Louis, which eliminated the Padres in the division series in 2005 and 2006 — the last time the Padres made the post-season — as well as in 1996, when the Padres played at Jack Murphy Stadium. Gallegos hung a slider, and Tatis sent it whistling into the left-field seats. Thing is, it might not even be Tatis’ all-time best postseason bat flip. SD needs spark? Paul Goldschmidt homered in the ninth, his second this series. Fernando Tatis, Jr., grew up in a baseball family. Kolten Wong homered and drove in four runs for the Cardinals, who led 6-2 in the sixth. The Padres are the first team in post-season history with five home runs from the sixth inning onward in a game. Fernando Tatis Jr. angered some old-school baseball guys by swinging 3-0 during a blowout. Tatis' monumental bat flip fires up Friars. And not a moment too soon. Game 3 will be Friday, and both staffs figure to be strapped after the clubs combined to use 17 pitchers. The Padres weren’t done after Tatis’ second homer. Tatis sent an opposite-field blast soaring toward the right-field deck at Petco Park. Tatis had arrived. New York swept that series. Tatis lined a 2-2 pitch into the left-field seats to pull the Padres to 6-5. Those people need to sit down and shut up. Nine purposeful steps before Tatis burst into his home run trot. Tatis and Myers are the second teammates in post-season history with multiple homers in the same game, joining Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series — including Ruth's famed “called shot.”. With five home runs, a franchise postseason record, the Padres earned their first playoff win at Petco Park. Tatis, a 21-year-old budding superstar and NL MVP contender along with Machado, had a breakout game after struggling for much of the final two weeks of the regular season and with runners on base in this series. “Pretty cool to be in a category with those names, even Tatis. After striking out with the bases loaded in the fourth, Tatis homered in consecutive innings and drove in five runs. The Padres were alive. It was the second time the Padres hit consecutive shots in the playoffs. San Diego’s powerful offence finally burst to life after slumbering through a 7-4 loss in Game 1 and a listless first five innings Thursday night. “They can put up runs in a hurry. Two days into his first postseason, Tatis is already rewriting those record books. “They’ve got big bats,” said Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong, who took Davies deep. “I got no idea,” manager Jayce Tingler said moments after Game 2 wrapped. Fernando Tatis Jr.’s emphatic bat flip -- following his second home run of the game -- served as the perfect exclamation point. AJ Cassavell covers the Padres for MLB.com. Move over, Jose Bautista. “That home run may have just lifted a little bit of weight off the shoulders,” Tingler said. The first was when Greg Vaughn and Tony Gwynn connected off San Diego native David Wells in the fifth inning of Game 1 of the 1998 World Series at Yankee Stadium. We were doing our best to keep them down, but a team this good, they’re going to step up eventually.”. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/big.baseball Twitter https://twitter.com/BIG_baseball_YT Yadier Molina, appearing in his NL-record 100th post-season game, hit an RBI single in the first and added his 100th career post-season hit in the ninth before being lifted for a pinch-runner. After using 17 pitchers through two games, it’s anyone’s guess how they’ll piece together nine innings. He referenced a bat flip from a walk-off blast he hit for Estrellas in the Dominican Winter League in January 2019 (a team managed by Fernando Tatis Sr.). “If you’re in the record books with those guys, you’re doing something right,” Tatis said.
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