Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres

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Miami Marlins

76-80, 31-47 Away

Final
3 - 7

San Diego Padres

87-69, 49-29 Home

Cronenworth homers twice, Padres beat Marlins 7-3 to lower wild-card magic number to 2

Jake Cronenworth hit a pair of two-run homers and drove in five runs for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Miami Marlins 7-3 on Sunday to move closer to clinching their third straight postseason berth.

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit his 25th homer for the Padres, who won for the 13th time in 14 games and swept the Marlins for the second time this season.

San Diego reduced its magic number to two for earning a wild-card spot.

The Padres and Cubs remain tied at 87-69 for the top wild-card spot with six games to go, although Chicago holds the tiebreaker. Philadelphia stayed one game back.

The top wild-card team will host a best-of-three opening series. The Cubs beat the Padres 2-1 in the wild-card round last year in Chicago.

Cronenworth lofted a two-run shot into the home run porch in the right-field corner off Sandy Alcantara (13-11) with two outs in the second.

He connected again to right off Bradley Blalock with two outs in the eighth, his seventh. It was his second career multihomer game.

Walker Buehler took a one-hitter and a 4-0 lead into the seventh before allowing Javier Sanoja's three-run homer to left with two outs, his 10th.

That was it for Buehler (9-6), who allowed three runs and three hits while striking out six and walking two in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. He retired 11 straight at one point.

Tatis homered into the Padres bullpen in left-center off Blalock leading off the seventh. It's his fourth career 25-homer season.

Cronenworth and Samad Taylor hit consecutive RBI singles in the fourth.

Alcantara allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings, struck out three and walked one.

Up next Marlins RHP Janson Junk (6-9, 4.50 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series at the Chicago Cubs.

The Padres haven't named a starter for Tuesday night's series opener at the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Marsee fouled out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Hernández grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Conine fouled out to third.
	9th Inning	Miller relieved Rodriguez
	8th Inning	Song grounded out to first.
	8th Inning	Cronenworth homered to right center (391 feet), Bogaerts scored.

Statistics

MIA		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	11
6	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	10
0	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	7
2	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
7	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
10	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	1
113	Pitches	129
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	21
32	Plate Appearances	35
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
1	Extra Base Hits	5
0.6	Runs Created	6.8
.138	Batting Average	.303
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.241	Slugging Percentage	.636
.207	Secondary Average	.394
.219	On Base Percentage	.343
.460	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.979
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
0.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.6
19.0	Batter Rating	52.0
29.0	At Bats Per Home Run	11.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
3.53	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.69
.103	Isolated Power	.333
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.094	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
.069	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.091
6.0	Runs Produced	14.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
69.0	MLB Rating	97.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0