Tampa Bay 5, San Diego 3
When: 12:10 PM ET, Thursday, June 24, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Fieldin Culbreth, 1B -
Marty Foster, 2B -
Gary Cederstrom, 3B -
Ed Hickox
Attendance:
21877
By SportsDirect Inc.
B.J. Upton, Kelly Shoppach and Carlos Pena homered as the Tampa Bay Rays avoided a home sweep Thursday afternoon with a 5-3 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Upton led off the bottom of the first inning with a solo shot before the Padres answered with three runs in the second. Willy Aybar's two-run single in the fifth tied the game at 3-3 and Shoppach launched a homer to left field, his first of the season, to put Tampa back in front in the sixth.
Pena added a solo homer in the seventh, his 16th of the campaign, to make a winner out of Matt Garza (8-5). The right-hander tossed eight innings, surrendering three runs on six hits en route to his third win in the past four decisions.
Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 17th save.
It was just the fourth victory in the last 13 games for Tampa, which improved to 19-17 at Tropicana Field. The Rays host the Arizona Diamondbacks this weekend, then play their next six games on the road, where they're a major league-best 24-12.
Oscar Salazar had a two-run homer and Jerry Hairston Jr. added a run-scoring single in defeat for San Diego, which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.
Wade LeBlanc (4-5) absorbed the loss, allowing four runs on 11 hits over 5 1/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Diego |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Wade LeBlanc
|
Player |
Matt Garza
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
5.1 |
IP |
8.0 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
11 |
Hits |
6 |
|
6.75 |
ERA |
3.38 |
Hitting
| San Diego |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Jerry Hairston Jr. | Player |
Kelly Shoppach
|
|
2 |
Hits |
3 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
0 |
HR |
1 |
|
2 |
TB |
7 |
|
.667 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Diego
|
6 |
1 |
9 |
.188 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
12 |
3 |
23 |
.353 |
18 |
10 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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