Losers of five out of six, the San Diego Padres were well on their way to just another defeat on Wednesday afternoon. Then the bats woke up and engineered a late rally, capped off in the bottom of the ninth.
Reds Vs. Padres: Orlando Hudson Single Sees San Diego Walk Off
An Orlando Hudson line-drive single with two down and the bases loaded in the ninth powered the Padres to a 3-2 walk-off win over the visiting Cincinnati Reds, salvaging the final game of a three-game series.
This game wasn't going San Diego's way for quite some time. Starter Tim Stauffer was pulled in the fifth inning with the score 2-0 Cincinnati, with Joey Votto having doubled home Drew Stubbs. And while the bullpen was able to stop the bleeding, the lineup wasn't able to get anything going against Travis Wood. The Padres didn't get their first runner into scoring position until the fifth, and they weren't able to plate one until the seventh, on a Nick Hundley sac fly.
It was 2-1 in the eighth until Jorge Cantu knotted things up with an RBI groundout. Runner Orlando Hudson had advanced from first to third on an error by catcher Ryan Hanigan.
That set the stage for the ninth. After the Reds went down 1-2-3, the Padres loaded the bases with one out against Nick Masset. Masset got Jason Bartlett to ground into a force at home, but then Hudson stepped up and ripped the winning hit into left, completing the Padres' late rally.
The Padres’ bullpen threw 4.2 shutout innings, while the Reds’ bullpen allowed two runs and six baserunners in two innings. San Diego now heads to Houston, while Cincinnati returns home to take on Pittsburgh.
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