Red-hot Manny Machado laced a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning on Wednesday to give equally red-hot San Diego Padres a 4-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Petco Park. With the win, the Padres swept the three-game series from Chicago, and now have won eight straight games overall.
Machado has homered in four of his past five games, hitting a total of five home runs in that span to double his season total to 10 in less than a week. Emilio Pagan, with an inning of scoreless relief, picked up the victory after Chris Paddack started and threw seven strong innings for San Diego. Kirby Yates retired the side in the ninth for his 11th-save.
San Diego (23-20) scored first on Tommy Pham’s third-inning triple, followed by a sacrifice fly from Trent Grisham. Ty France hit his fourth home run of the year, a solo shot against Dallas Keuchel in the fourth, to make to 2-0. The White Sox got even in the seventh thanks to an error and an RBI single by Leury Garcia.
But in the eighth, Grisham singled to open the inning against reliever and loser Aaron Bummer. Machado then went deep to give San Diego the lead and eventually a win that was their 10th in the last 12 games overall.
