ATLANTA — Yu Darvish dominated a slumping Braves offense and prolonged his profession excessive scoreless innings streak to 25 whereas incomes his 2 hundredth skilled win because the San Diego Padres hammered Atlanta 9-1 on Sunday evening.
Darvish (4-1) gave up solely two hits, struck out 9 and walked one on 99 pitches in seven innings, and lowered his ERA to 2.08.
“Yu has been elite the final 4 instances out,” Padres supervisor Mike Shildt mentioned. “He is been nothing wanting magnificent.”
Darvish grew to become the third Japanese-born pitcher to achieve 200 profession wins between MLB and Nippon Skilled Baseball, becoming a member of Hiroki Kuroda (203) and Hideo Nomo (201). Darvish, who has received his previous 4 begins, has 107 main league victories and 93 within the NPB.
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“These two different pitchers, clearly we all know how good they’re,” Darvish mentioned via an interpreter. “Simply to be a bit bit nearer to them, I really feel honored and it offers me confidence transferring ahead.”
Darvish is the primary pitcher age 37 or older to throw 25 consecutive scoreless innings in a season since Bartolo Colon, who tossed 30 such innings in 2015.
Randy Jones owns the Padres’ single-season file with 30 consecutive scoreless innings, set in Might 1980.
Jake Cronenworth, Luis Campusano and Ha-Seong Kim hit dwelling runs for the Padres, who entered with no extra-base hits of their earlier three video games. Jurickson Profar was 3-for-4 with a stroll, two runs scored and an RBI.
Luis Arraez was 2-for-4 with a stroll, a run and a stolen base to increase his on-base streak to 23 video games, the longest energetic stretch within the majors.
Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (1-2) struggled from the outset and allowed six earned runs in three innings. He gave up 9 hits, walked three and struck out three.
Braves reserve shortstop Luke Williams pitched an ideal ninth.
In the meantime, the Padres’ pitching has dominated the Braves via the primary two video games of the four-game sequence, limiting Atlanta to 2 runs and 11 hits whereas recording 29 strikeouts.
“[Darvish] was finding each pitch and we could not get him tonight,” mentioned Braves DH Marcell Ozuna, who was 1-for-4 and prolonged his hitting streak to 11 video games. “He was good.”
The Padres entered the sequence after being swept by the last-place Rockies.
“That is simply baseball,” Cronenworth mentioned. “That is a very good workforce over there. They’ve had 100 wins for the final ‘X’ quantity of years. We got here in after an off day and reset and performed good baseball.”
San Diego took a 3-0 lead within the first inning. Cronenworth hit a two-run homer into the Chop Home restaurant in proper area with two outs. Manny Machado, Xander Bogaerts and Jackson Merrill all adopted with singles to drive within the third run.
The Padres added 4 runs within the fourth, helped by a dropped fly ball by Ronald Acuna Jr. in proper area. Fernando Tatis Jr. had a two-run double, Profar had a run-scoring double and Bogaerts had a sacrifice fly on what would have been the third out had Acuña not dropped Machado’s sinking fly within the earlier at-bat.
ESPN Stats & Info and The Related Press contributed to this report.