Diamondbacks avoid sweep by battering Matt Waldron, Padres
Published in Baseball
It has been fairly straightforward for the Padres.
Pitch well at the start, generally they win. Get behind because a starting pitcher struggles, they lose.
Sunday afternoon, after four consecutive victories in which the team's starting pitchers were sensational, Matt Waldron was knuckled under.
"Yeah, I think from the start, that wasn't where I wanted it to be," Waldron said. "But just yeah, that was my worst performance of the year."
Waldron turned in the shortest and altogether ugliest of his 13 career starts, as the Diamondbacks beat the Padres 11-4 to avoid a sweep.
It was quite a game before it became a rout.
Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson set down the Padres in order in the first inning.
By the time there was another 1-2-3 half-inning, the Diamondbacks led 6-4 at the end of the third.
An inning later, the game was no longer close.
Waldron departed after yielding doubles to the first two batters in the fourth inning, having already surrendered seven runs. His final line would be eight runs allowed, seven of them earned, eight hits, three walks, a wild pitch and two passed balls on squirrelly knuckleballs that caromed off catcher Kyle Higashioka's glove.
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