Padres shut out Brewers in series opener

Kevin Acee, The San Diego Union-Tribune on Jun 6, 2025

Published in Baseball

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MILWAUKEE — A bunt, a couple singles. A run-saving play up the middle. Pitches when they simply had to be made. Another home run by Manny Machado.

The Padres found another away to construct another slim margin of victory.

They scored in the third inning, got a little breathing room from Machado’s sixth home run in 14 games, survived a whole bunch of stress in between and left American Family Field on Friday night with a 2-0 victory in the opener of a three-game series against the Brewers.

It was the major league-leading 22nd time the Padres have won a game by no more than two runs.

The margin was double that of any of the Padres’ previous four games — wins Monday and Tuesday and losses Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco.

The Padres’ 11th shutout victory was put together by starting pitcher Randy Vásquez and relievers Wandy Peralta, Jeremiah Estrada, Adrián Morejón and Robert Suarez.

They all delivered in high-leverage moments.

But for a time, it seemed as if a few of them were determined to let the Brewers walk away with a win.

Vásquez did not get burned playing with fire. He just didn’t allow himself to be around long enough to be in line for the win.

He had allowed just one hit but walked four batters and had stranded a runner on second base twice when he got into trouble again in the fifth.

The beginning of his end was an 0-1 sinker that hit No.9 batter Joey Ortiz on the tricep with one out. Bryce Turang followed with a single before Jackson Chourio flied out to Jackson Merrill on the warning track, moving Ortiz to third.

That brought Peralta into the game for a left-on-left matchup with Christian Yelich, who he struck out.

Peralta then began the sixth with a walk before getting a strikeout and being replaced by Estrada, who walked the first batter he faced before ending the inning with a strikeout and a fly ball to center field.

Estrada got the first two outs of the seventh and gave way after yielding a single to Chourio.

The lefty Morejón was called on to face Yelich.

Morejón got up 0-2 on Yelich and Chourio stole on the next pitch. After another ball, Yelich grounded a ball up the middle that would have scored Chourio had second baseman Jake Cronenworth not ran into the grass to backhand the ball. That Yelich got an infield single proved inconsequential when Morejón struck out clean-up batter William Contreras.

Morejón also worked a 1-2-3 eighth inning before Robert Suarez extended his major league-leading saves total to 20 with a quick ninth.