Told of Cronenworth’s prowess, Cruz said, “Ahhh. Yu Darvish Position: Starting Pitcher Bats: Right Throws: Right 6-5, 220lb (196cm, 99kg) Team: San Diego Padres (majors) More bio, uniform, draft, salary info 5x All-Star 11 21 11 11 Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Cronenworth has 16 career triples, second most in the majors since 2020. The triple was Cruz’s 15 th in a big-league career now in its 19 th season. He used his own model before the series in Chicago, when he switched to using Manny Machado’s. “The last two days I used ( Jake) Cronenworth’s bat,” Cruz said.Ĭruz said he frequently uses teammates’ bats. Turns out, Cruz was using the triple machine’s bat while in Mexico. Then the 42-year-old designated hitter went out in his first at-bat Sunday and hit the triple that a night before would have completed the cycle. Nelson Cruz joked Saturday after going 5-for-6 with a homer, a double and four RBIs that he was happiest about his prowess on the basepaths. I didn’t put the ball in play.” Triple man “The first at-bat I don’t feel like I got jammed. “I have no clue how it happened,” he said. Had he broken the bat his previous time up, when he fouled off one pitch and struck out on a foul tip? Nola was 2-for-7 with two walks in the series here and is batting. “I wanted to join the party,” Nola said of the homer, which traveled a projected distance of 440 feet. He then lined the next pitch from Cobb at 104.6 mph off the bat over the wall in center field. And finally, I said, ‘Let me check and just see.’ I hit it on the ground and was like, ‘There’s a huge crack in the middle of the bat.’” It sounded weird, but I must have thought it was the plate or something like that. “I hit it on the plate every time, and I heard a sound every time. “I’ve never had that happen in my life before,” Nola said. Well, there was no discernible way Nola broke it Sunday.īut his second time up, after taking four pitches, three of them for balls, he decided to investigate a strange sound. “Maybe that’s what it was,” Nola said with a laugh. Perhaps Nola’s bat had been broken all season. “Here, it’s hard with the breaking stuff,’ said Garcia. It was quite a pitching turnaround from Saturday, when all but two of the 12 pitchers used between the two teams allowed at least one run and 26 were yielded in all at a ballpark 7,349 feet above sea level. He kept his slider down and relied in his two fastballs that both average almost 97 mph. Where the Giants brought in their closer with one out in the eighth, the Padres were able to bridge between Darvish and closer Josh Hader by getting two innings from Luis Garcia. The use of a hard sinker and splitter was also big for Giants starter Alex Cobb, who allowed three runs and struck out seven in five innings. Tatis will move to the outfield, probably in right.“We started realizing the hard movement down is getting the ball out of the air,” catcher Austin Nola said of a mid-game alteration in plans. ![]() will be eligible to return April 20 from an 80-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. They signed shortstop Xander Bogaerts to a $280 million, 11-year deal in December, even though Fernando Tatis Jr. Darvish heads a rotation that also includes hometown product Joe Musgrove, who signed a $100 million, five-year deal in July. The deal is the latest by the free-spending Padres. He was 2-1 in the postseason.ĭarvish was traded by the Cubs to the Padres in 2020. He finished the year 16-8 with a 3.10 ERA and 197 strikeouts. Preller on Friday.ĭarvish helped the Padres reach the NL Championship Series last season, which was one of the best in his 11-year big league career. The Padres planned a news conference with Darvish and general manager A.J. He’s set to stay under contract with San Diego until he’s 42. The right-hander, who has a baffling array of pitches, will make $108 million over six years, including the $18 million he was already due in 2023 before he was set to become a free agent. SAN DIEGO (AP) - Yu Darvish signed a new contract with the San Diego Padres on Thursday that guarantees the 36-year-old ace an additional $90 million and will keep him with the club through the 2028 season.
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