The Padres were spotted a baserunner in the 10th inning on Thursday night. They turned it into a six-run exclamation point on a wild 12-7 victory over the Giants at Oracle Park.\n\nSan Diego’s first trip to extra innings offered all the expected fireworks of extras in 2020. And then some.
For this season, teams begin each frame with an automatic runner on second base, in an effort to spark offense. But this Padres outburst was a product of much more than one baserunner. Their six-run 10th was the highest-scoring extra inning in the Majors this season.\n\n“Yeah, you can call me a fan of that \\[rule\\],” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said on his postgame Zoom session with a wry grin.\n\nCenter fielder
The floodgates opened from there. The Padres put six men on base before they recorded an out.\n\n“Hitting is contagious,” Pham said. “Manny had that great at-bat, staying within the strike zone. It set the tempo for us, and it put more pressure on them, because now they have two guys on, no outs. Their \\[pitcher\\] had to come to me.”\n\nPerhaps the biggest moment of the frame came courtesy of a gutsy decision from Tingler. With the bases loaded and sidewinding right-hander Tyler Rogers on the mound, Tingler lifted the righty-hitting
“GG is a pro’s pro,” Pham said. “I can’t say it enough -- a pro’s pro.”\n\n“That was a huge at-bat,” Tingler said. “It’s incredibly hard to come in off the bench and do that, and Greg’s already done it a couple times.”\n\nThe Padres weren’t done.
**Grisham does it all** \nOn top of making history as the Padres’ first automatic runner in extra innings, Grisham had himself quite a night. He tripled and scored in the fourth, then hit an RBI double and stole a base in the seventh.\n\nBut Grisham’s biggest highlight came in the bottom of the fifth after starter
**Bullpen woes** \nIn all seven games the Padres have played this season, they’ve carried a lead into the eighth inning. That was supposed to be their recipe for success after constructing one of the sport’s deepest bullpens.\n\nThus far, that bullpen hasn’t lived up to its billing.