Arizona 4, San Diego 1
When: 9:40 PM ET, Thursday, September 8, 2011
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jim Reynolds, 1B -
Andy Fletcher, 2B -
Tim Welke, 3B -
Tim Tschida
Attendance:
21402
By SportsDirect Inc.
Ian Kennedy struck out a season-high 11 batters over 7 2/3 innings to become the National League’s first 19-game winner and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the visiting San Diego Padres 4-1 on Thursday.
Paul Goldschmidt and Justin Upton each hit solo home runs for the Diamondbacks, who moved 7 1/2 games ahead of San Francisco in the National League West.
Arizona has won a franchise-record 13 straight home games and 14 of its last 16 overall. The Diamondbacks’ magic number dropped to 12 with 18 games to go.
Kennedy (19-4) gave up seven hits and no walks as he came within one strikeout of tying his career high. J.J. Putz worked a scoreless ninth inning for his 38th save.
Padres starter Cory Luebke (5-9) lost his fourth consecutive start despite striking out nine over 5 2/3 innings. Seven of the 11 home runs that Luebke has allowed this season have come against Arizona.
San Diego, which has lost 12 of its last 14 games, avoided a shutout on Will Venable’s run-scoring single that chased Kennedy in the top of the eighth.
Arizona has won eight of the 12 meetings against the Padres this season.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Diego |
|
Arizona |
|
Cory Luebke
|
Player |
Ian Kennedy
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
5.2 |
IP |
7.2 |
|
9 |
Strikeouts |
11 |
|
3 |
Hits |
7 |
|
3.18 |
ERA |
1.17 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Diego
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.242 |
15 |
13 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Arizona
|
6 |
2 |
12 |
.207 |
11 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
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