AN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres’ whirlwind day started with team keeping their ace pitcher, then finished with the club extending their season-high win streak with a comeback victory.
In between star Jake Peavy vetoing a proposed trade to the Chicago White Sox earlier on Thursday and the victory, the Padres traded for outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr., the son of San Diego Hall of Famer outfielder Tony Gwynn.
Scott Hairston capped off the day by singling in the winning run as the Padres scored twice in the ninth for a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night.
Hairston’s bases-loaded single with two outs off Brian Wilson gave the Padres their season-high sixth straight win and a three-game sweep of the Giants.
“It’s been a crazy 24 hours,” Peavy said before San Diego’s comeback win.
The day would end with the Padres sweeping the Giants and Gwynn Jr. scoring the game-winning run on Hairston’s single after a pinch-hit walk.
“I’m glad to be back,” said Gwynn Jr., who grew up in the Padres’ locker room during his father’s 20-year career, all spent in San Diego. “It still hasn’t really kicked in yet. But my nerves were actually pretty good being up at the plate in the ninth inning.”
San Diego retained Peavy when he turned down a trade to the Chicago White Sox, choosing to remain with his longtime team. The Padres and White Sox had reached an agreement, but needed the 2007 Cy Young Award winner to waive his no-trade clause.
Rays 6, Athletics 5
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Pinch-hitter Ben Zobrist tied the game with a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth and Carl Crawford then won it with an RBI single in the Tampa Bay Rays’ 6-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
Zobrist got the Rays even at 5 with the homer off Andrew Bailey.
After Dioner Navarro doubled and B.J. Upton walked against Brad Ziegler (0-1), Crawford lined the game-winning single to center.
Adam Kennedy had an RBI single and Ryan Sweeney drew a bases-loaded walk off Joe Nelson (1-0) to give Oakland a 5-3 lead in the top of the ninth.
Tampa Bay’s Matt Garza allowed two runs and seven hits in 6 2-3 innings. Oakland left-hander Dallas Braden gave up three runs and six hits over seven innings.
Two walks and Jason Giambi’s single off the wall in center field against Tampa Bay closer Troy Percival loaded the bases in the ninth. Kennedy’s single made it 4-3 and Sweeney followed with his RBI walk.
Jason Bartlett gave the Rays a 3-2 lead with his sixth homer, a solo shot in the sixth. He had just one homer in 128 games last season. Bartlett went 1 for 4, and is hitting .376 this year.
Oakland tied it at 3 on Orlando Cabrera’s RBI single off Dan Wheeler in the eighth.
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