SAN DIEGO — Yu Darvish pitched seven spectacular innings for his first win of the season, Gavin Sheets hit a two-run homer and the San Diego Padres beat the NL East-leading New York Mets 5-0 on Wednesday for a three-game sweep.
Manny Machado added a two-run, bases-loaded single for the Padres, who received their fifth straight sport as they proceed to chase the defending World Sequence champion Los Angeles Dodgers within the NL West.
Slugger Juan Soto was out of the lineup for the Mets a day after fouling a ball off the highest of his left foot.
Darvish , who turns 39 on Aug. 16, held the Mets to 2 hits, struck out seven and walked none in his fifth begin. After permitting Mark Vientos’ single with one out within the first, Darvish retired the subsequent 13 batters. He had been sidelined by proper elbow irritation from mid-March till making his season debut on July 7.
Darvish bought a pleasant ovation as he headed to the dugout after pitching an ideal seventh in what grew to become the Padres’ massive league-high fifteenth shutout.
It was Darvish’s 111th massive league win, which, mixed together with his 93 in Japan, allowed him to interrupt out of a tie with Hiroki Kuroda and take sole possession of first place on the mixed all-time listing.
Sheets’ homer off Clay Holmes got here after Jose Iglesias reached on shortstop Francisco Lindor’s throwing error with two outs within the third. Sheets then drove an 0-2 pitch an estimated 427 toes to right-center, his fifteenth.
Holmes retired the primary two batters within the second earlier than permitting a single by Martin Maldonado, hitting Fernando Tatis Jr. on the highest of the left hand with a pitch and strolling Luis Arraez. Machado then singled to left for a 2-0 lead.
Machado hit a three-run homer in a 7-1 win on Tuesday evening.
Holmes lasted solely 3 2/3 innings, permitting 4 runs — two earned — and eight hits. The Mets have been swept in a collection of three or extra video games at San Diego for the primary time since 2008.
Sheets’ homer gave Darvish some respiration room.
It was the tenth time in Darvish’s 14-year profession that he pitched seven-plus innings whereas permitting no runs and two or fewer hits.
Mets LHP David Peterson is scheduled to begin Friday evening within the opener of a three-game house collection in opposition to San Francisco. The Padres have not named a starter for Friday evening’s opener of a three-game house collection in opposition to St. Louis.
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