Jase Bowen belted his first major league homer Friday night, Ty France knocked in three runs and three San Diego Padres pitchers combined for a two-hitter in a 7-0 blanking of the visiting San Francisco Giants.
A night after San Francisco ended San Diego’s five-game winning streak with a 4-1 triumph to open the four-game series, the Padres banged out 12 hits and scored in four of the first six innings to enjoy an easy victory.
On the mound, San Diego got a 1-2-3 first inning from opener Bradgley Rodriguez, then three one-hit innings from Yuki Matsui in the longest outing of his three-year major league career. German Marquez followed that up with five one-hit frames. Matsui (2-1) got the win, and Marquez logged the first save of his 11-year big league career.
Left-hander Carson Whisenhunt (2-2) absorbed a beating in 3 1/3 innings, yielding seven hits and six runs while walking four and fanning three.
The Padres wasted little time coming after Whisenhunt, taking a 1-0 lead after six pitches as Fernando Tatis Jr. doubled, Luis Rengifo singled and Manny Machado rifled a sacrifice fly to left. Luis Campusano cashed in Rengifo with a two-out RBI single to left.
San Diego made it 3-0 after three innings via an unusual play. With runners at the corners and one out, Xander Bogaerts’ bouncer was fielded by first baseman Rafael Devers at the bag. He whirled and fired to second for a tag play on Campusano, but Jackson Merrill touched the plate before the tag, enabling the run to score.
Bowen cracked his homer with one out in the fourth into the second level of the Western Metal Supply building. The Padres blew it open later in the inning when France lined a two-run single that scored Tatis and Rengifo, who walked and then worked a double steal.
France capped the scoring in the sixth with a sacrifice fly to center that scored Rengifo.
Campusano went 3-for-4, while Bowen and France each collected two hits.
