One of their stars was gone, and then another of their stars was gone.
They beat the Brewers 9-5 on Friday and will wait to see how long they’ve lost Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jurickson Profar.
The Padres’ third consecutive win brought them back to .500, one game past the midpoint of the season, and reinforced their belief that anything is possible.
“It’s exactly like we’ve done all year,” said Jake Cronenworth, who went 5 for 5 with four runs batted in and two runs batted in. “An incredible job.”
Tatis left in the fifth inning with a left tricep injury, he was hit by a pitch from Colin Rea in the third inning. Tatis, who has been playing through a right quad strain for several weeks, looked seriously wobbly even when running in the outfield.
Profar, who has played more than a month with patellar tendinitis in his left knee, walked immediately after reaching second base on a one-out double in the seventh inning.
Schilt indicated that neither player was expected to miss significant time. Profar said he will take Saturday off but will be able to play Sunday.
Profar’s replacement, Jose Azocar, running at second base, scored when Jake Cronenworth singled to left for the first of the Padres’ three runs in the seventh, giving them an 8–5 lead.
Cronenworth, whose walk-off homer decided Thursday’s series opener, tied Friday’s game 4-4 with a home run in the sixth. He also scored his first run in the second innings and took 5 out of 5.
The Brewers scored four runs and struck out Padres starter Dylan Cease in the fifth inning, before Luis Arraez’s two-run homer gave the Padres a 4–3 lead in the bottom of the fifth and took a 5–4 lead into the sixth. Lee when Manny Machado gave chase. Cronenworth’s homer followed with a double and scored on Donovan Solano’s pinch-hit single.
They took the lead in the top of the seventh.
It wasn’t their troubled bullpen that did it. It was shortstop Ha-seong Kim’s second throwing error of the game.
The bullpen, which was covering more than four innings for the sixth time in seven days, was quite amazing.
The season went on in the fifth with two outs and two on and the Brewers had already scored three times to take a 3–1 lead.
Tom Cosgrove, recalled from Triple-A El Paso on Friday, entered and allowed one run to score.
Tyler Black started the inning with a walk and advanced to second before Cease got his ninth strikeout.
Jackson Chourio chased the shortstop with a grounder that put Black on second until Arraez tried to scoop Ha-Seong Kim’s bounce throw and the ball went away from him. At that time, Black moved to third position.
They scored when Bryce Turang sent a slow roller down the third base line that Manny Machado fielded and threw home. The throw was high, and by the time catcher Kyle Higashioka brought down the tag, Black had touched the plate.
Umpire Jensen Visconti called black out, but the call was overturned after review.
William Contreras and Christian Yelich then singled, making the score 3–1, and at the corner, Cease threw out cleanup hitter Willie Adams with his 106th pitch of the night.
The first batter Crossgrove faced reached on catcher’s interference to load the bases. The next batter, Rhys Hoskins, hit a grounder down the third base line that Machado jumped to block but had no chance. This gave the Brewers a 4-1 lead.
The Padres took a 1–0 lead in the second inning on singles by Cronenworth and Machado and a fielder’s choice grounder by Jackson Merrill that scored Cronenworth.
Their comeback against Rei began with a two-out walk to Higashioka in the bottom of the fifth, followed by Erez’s second home run of the season.
Cronenworth’s homer and Machado’s double ended Rea’s night with one out in the sixth, and left-hander Jared Koenig was struck out before Solano dropped a single to center field.
Stephen Kolek came in to replace Cosgrove and gave up two one-out singles, the first by Yelich and the second by Adams on a slow roller that stopped when he reached third base.
Sal Fralick followed with a grounder to Kim, who stepped on second base and then threw wide to first. As Yelich homered with the game tied at 5–5, the ball hit the side wall.
After Cronenworth gave them the lead, singles by Machado and Merrill loaded the bases, before Solano walked Cronenworth and Kim’s fielder’s choice grounder forced in Machado.
Cronenworth’s final hit, a two-out double in the eighth, was followed by an RBI single by Machado.
With one out and two on in the eighth, Kolek’s replacement, Enyel de los Santos, got an inning-ending double play. He then finished the ninth, allowing only a two-out single and providing a second consecutive day of rest for a tired Robert Suárez.
“That fourth run was huge,” Schilt said. “And D’Lo did his thing, which makes it a lot better.”
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