Padres walk off with extra-innings win after wild one against Braves

Kevin Acee, The San Diego Union-Tribune on Jun 24, 2026

Published in Baseball

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The Padres have a serious issue in their starting rotation.

That reality brazenly slapped them in the face again Tuesday.

And then it became a side story, at least for the night.

That is how crazy things got between the Padres and Braves.

The Padres won 7-6 when Mason Miller worked two scoreless innings and Manny Machado grounded a walk-off single up the middle to score Jackson Merrill in the 10th inning.

That was eight innings after the Braves took a 4-0 lead and the Padres took a 5-4 lead.

That is correct. The craziness commenced when for the second time in five games the Padres were part of a runaway inning.

They were on the wrong side of an 11-run inning Friday in Texas when the Rangers responded with six runs in the bottom of the first inning after the Padres scored five at the start of what ended up a 9-7 loss.

On Tuesday, the Padres came out on top of a nine-run second inning.

Griffin Canning jogged in from the bullpen to start that inning after Wandy Peralta worked a scoreless first as the Padres’ opener.

Canning would get just two outs, allow four hits, hit a batter, walk another and allow three runs before he departed.

His 40th pitch completed a walk that loaded the bases. That drew more than a few boos from the seats and brought Craig Stammen from the dugout.

The game didn’t really get wild until a while after that.

Kyle Hart walked the next batter to make it 4-0 before ending the inning on a groundout.

That is how the bottom of the third began for the Padres as well.

And then six consecutive batters reached base, and they scored five runs against Braves starter JR Ritchie.

The comeback began with walks by Xander Bogaerts and Will Wagner before singles by Rodolfo Durán and Sung-Mun Song cut the Braves’ lead in half and a double by Fernando Tatis Jr. got the Padres to 4-3 and got Song to third base.

An infield single by Samad Taylor flipped the lead.

Song easily scored on the grounder up the middle, and when shortstop Mauricio Dubón bounced a throw that got past first baseman Matt Olson, Tatis raced around third and beat a throw home by Olson.

The Braves tied the game 5-5 in the fourth and retook the lead in the fifth.

Michael Harris II singled, went to second on a wild pitch by Hart and scored on Ozzie Albie’s double in the fourth. Dubón homered in the fifth off Yuki Matsui, who had come in to get the final out of the fourth and ended up working through the sixth.

Jackson Merrill missed a game-tying home run by a foot and instead got a double leading off the fifth inning when his fly ball to right field hit the top of the wall and bounced back to right fielder Mike Yastrzemski.

Merrill finished the inning at second after a fly ball by Machado and strikeouts by Gavin Sheets and Bogaerts.

Tatis did not miss a home run as the first batter in the seventh, sending a sinker from Carlos Carrasco 406 feet to center field to tie the game 6-6.

No matter what unfolded the rest of the way, the Padres will be left to figure out what to do about Canning, whose ERA swelled to 7.38 after he yielded his ninth multi-run inning among the 45 innings he has begun for the Padres this season.

He is but one of the flat tires on the rotation bus.

The Padres got seven shutout innings from Michael King in a 1-0 victory over the Braves on Monday. It was the first time a Padres starter went seven innings since King did it on May 18 and just the third quality start by a Padres pitcher in 24 games.

The Padres rotation, including the two times Canning has worked after an opener and the two times Lucas Giolito has done so, has a 4.76 ERA over the past 25 games.