King’s night began to unravel when Elehuris Montero singled through the left side and Jake Cronenworth mishandled a grounder by Nolan Jones, turning a potential double-play that emptied the bases into the Rockies having two runners on with no outs. A single by Brenton Doyle followed, and Brendan Rodgers grand slam followed that.

The next two batters reached, on a single and double, putting men at second and third and prompting Shildt to call for an intentional walk that again loaded the bases.

King struck out Elias Diaz before walking Montero to bring in another run.

King’s night was finished.

The right-hander had gotten through the first inning on nine pitches. He had walked a batter and given up a run in the second. But he was through three innings fairly swiftly, having yielded three hits and the one walk with four strikeouts on 57 pitches.

That he was the starting pitcher who departed without finishing four pinning was quite the flip.

The Rockies’ Ryan Feltner allowed 10 hits and walked two in his four innings.

The Padres scored twice in the first on a walk by Xander Bogaerts, singles by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar’s sacrifice fly.

A pair of two-out singles in the second yielded nothing, but they added two more runs in the third on a single by Ha-Seong Kim, an RBI double by Luis Campusano and RBI single by Jackson Merrill.

A two–out single by Tatis and walk by Cronenworth had Feltner on fumes in the fourth, but he ended the inning by striking out Profar.

Then came the decisive inning for the Rockies. They would add a run in the fifth against Stephen Kolek.

The Padres got a walk and two singles against three Rockies relievers over the final five innings.

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