With dad watching, Ryan Weathers leads Padres over Mets 4-2

Tue, Apr 11, 2023
MLB News (AP)

NEW YORK (AP) - Ryan Weathers got his first big league win in two years as his father, former major league pitcher David Weathers, watched from a second-row seat and the San Diego Padres beat the New York Mets 4-2 on Tuesday night.

Manny Machado hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the fifth inning against David Peterson (0-2), and Xander Bogaerts boosted the lead to 4-1 with a two-run homer into the left-field second deck in the ninth off Dennis Santana.

Ryan Weathers (1-0) held the Mets to one run and three hits in five innings. The 23-year-old left-hander escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs jam in the first by striking out Pete Alonso on a changeup and getting Mark Canha to ground into a double play.

Weathers surrendered his only run on Canha's fourth-inning sacrifice fly, keeping the Mets off balance with 46 fastballs, 24 changeups, 17 slider-like sweepers and two sliders. He prevented further damage in the fourth by picking off Alonso at first, Weathers' 10th pickoff in 108 1/3 big league innings.

Weathers was the seventh overall pick in the 2018 amateur draft and made his big league debut in October 2020. He went 4-7 in the following year, losing his last five decisions after a July 6 victory at Washington, and made just one major league appearance last year, when he went 7-7 with a 6.73 ERA at Triple-A El Paso. Inserted into the rotation following an injury to Joe Musgrove, he left with a 3-2 lead in a no-decision as San Diego beat Arizona on April 3.

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David Weathers, now 53, pitched in the big leagues from 1991-2009, spending 2002-04 with the Mets and winning a World Series with the Yankees in 1996.

Machado had been 0 for 6 in the series before he reached to the outside corner for the third straight slider and drove the ball off the chalk on the left-field line with two outs in the fifth. Luis Campusano, who had his first career three-hit game, singled leading off and Brandon Dixon, in his first appearance this season, singled with one out.

San Diego rebounded from Monday's series-opening loss as Brent Honeywell, a cousin of former big league pitcher Mike Marshall, combined with Weathers, Luis Garcia, Steven Wilson and Josh Hader on a five-hitter.

Wilson walked a pair of batters in the eighth but got Starling Marte to hit into a forceout and struck out Francisco Lindor. Hader walked two and gave up Tommy Pham's RBI single in the ninth, then got his fourth save when Tomas Nido hit a comebacker and rookie Francisco Alvarez struck out.

STYLE WATCH

San Diego will wear retro Pacific Coast League uniforms in a 1948 design with navy blue script on the chest outlined in red on Monday to honor the 75th anniversary of catcher Johnny Ritchey breaking baseball's color barrier on the West Coast.

CITI LIVING

This homestand marked the debut of a 17,400-square foot Samsung videoboard in the outfield at Citi Field, more than three times the size of the 5,670-square foot Daktronics board in place since 2015. ... Part of the right field fence is 8 feet, 8 inches shorter from home plate this year because of the new speakeasy that juts out farther than the prior picnic area.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Padres: RHP Musgrove (broken left big toe) played catch and the Padres plan to decide Thursday when his next rehab start will be, possibly Friday. His rehab was slowed when he had a cortisone shot in his pitching shoulder after falling while fielding. ... LHP Drew Pomeranz (left flexor strain) is to make his first rehab appearance Thursday for El Paso. ... OF David Dahl (strained right quadriceps) probably won't be ready for rehab games until Monday at the earliest.

Mets: RF Marte went 1 for 4 after straining his neck Sunday and missing a game. ... RHP Justin Verlander (strained upper back muscle) will head to the Port St. Lucie training complex when the team leaves Wednesday for a West Coast trip.

UP NEXT

LHP Blake Snell (0-1, 7.88 ERA), the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner, starts the series finale for San Diego and RHP Tylor Megill (2-0, 1.64 ERA) will be on the mound of the Mets.

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