Carlos Santana on Monday hit a pair of two-run homers and the Pittsburgh Pirates went deep four times against Yu Darvish in an 8-4 win over the San Diego Padres.
Liover Peguero also had a two-run drive and Jack Suwinski added a solo shot for the Pirates.
“We just got pitches up in the zone,” manager Derek Shelton said. “We were fortunate Darvish left some balls up and we didn’t miss them.”
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Ha-Seong Kim homered twice for San Diego, the first multihomer game of his career.
Darvish (7-7) allowed seven runs and eight hits over 4-1/3 innings.
Kim opened the scoring in the first with a leadoff shot to left-center. In the third, Suwinski tied the game with a solo drive and Santana homered on a full count to score Andrew McCutchen, who reached on a single and stole second.
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Peguero hit his first career homer in the fourth. His shot down the left-field line put Pittsburgh up 5-1 and scored Jared Triolo, who reached on a base hit.
“Just an amazing moment. Also, a privilege getting a hit like that off of someone like Darvish,” Peguero said.
He became the sixth Pirates player to hit his first major league home run this season.
“I used to go to bed when I was a kid thinking of stuff like this,” Peguero said.
Santana homered and drove in McCutchen again in the fifth to put Pittsburgh ahead 7-1. It was Santana’s 11th homer of the season and his 16th multihomer game — first since Sept. 19 last year for the Seattle Mariners.
“He means a ton to us, especially right now, as young as we are and as young as we are with younger Latin players. I think it’s one of the reasons that we identified him this offseason,” Shelton said.
Suwinski had three hits, including his 21st home run.
Peguero added insurance in the fifth to extend Pittsburgh’s lead to 8-1, legging out an infield single that plated Endy Rodriguez for his third RBI of the game.
In Phoenix, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Taiwanese-American rookie Corbin Carroll had a sacrifice fly in their 10-6 loss to the St Louis Cardinals.
Arizona has dropped five straight, continuing an extended slide. The D-backs are 5-13 this month, which could change the team’s approach to the rapidly approaching trade deadline on Tuesday next week.
Elsewhere, the surging Baltimore Orioles edged the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2, the Houston Astros pipped the Texas Rangers 10-9, the Milwaukee Brewers bested the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 and the Toronto Blue Jays topped the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 in 11 innings.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Guardian 5-3, the Minneapolis Twins outplayed the Mariners 4-3 in 10 innings, the Colorado Rockies dominated the Washington Nationals 10-6 and the Detroit Tigers defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-1.
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