Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
San Diego 7, Philadelphia 3
When: 9:10 PM ET, Thursday, September 18, 2014
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature: 74°
Umpires: Home - Jim Wolf, 1B - Brian Gorman, 2B - David Rackley, 3B - Adam Hamari
Attendance: 18076

Padres 7, Phillies 3: Will Venable and Alexi Amarista homered and Robbie Erlin allowed one run in six innings as San Diego clinched a four-game series win over visiting Philadelphia.

Seth Smith had two hits and an RBI while Cory Spangenberg drove in a run for the Padres, who took three of four in the series to improve to 43-32 at home. Erlin (4-4) made his first start since May 17 and scattered five hits while striking out four and not walking a batter.

Kyle Kendrick (9-13) was reached for three runs on six hits and five walks in five innings for the Phillies. Domonic Brown and Cesar Hernandez each singled in a run while Ben Revere added an RBI single in the ninth among three hits for Philadelphia, which has dropped four of five.

Amarista took a 2-2 changeup into the front row in right in the second to open the scoring and lifted a sacrifice fly to left in the fourth to plate Yasmani Grandal with the go-ahead run. Smith sent a grounder through the shift into right-center for an RBI single in the fifth to push it to 3-1.

Cameron Maybin doubled to lead off the sixth off Antonio Bastardo and moved up on a groundout before Spangenberg sliced a bloop single into left to make it a three-run cushion. Venable doubled the advantage on one swing in the eighth, when he sent a 2-0 fastball from Cesar Jimenez out to center.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Erlin, who missed nearly four months due to elbow trouble, was starting in place of Tyson Ross (soreness). … Smith went 2-for-4 in his return to the lineup after being limited to pinch hitting due to hamstring soreness the last two nights. … The Phillies continue their 10-game road trip at Oakland on Friday while the Padres welcome the San Francisco Giants to town.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Philadelphia   San Diego
Kyle Kendrick Player Robbie Erlin
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 6.0
2 Strikeouts 4
6 Hits 5
5.40 ERA 1.50
Hitting
Philadelphia   San Diego
Ben Revere Player Yasmani Grandal
3 Hits 2
1 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 2
.600 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Philadelphia 11 0 15 .289 17 8 2 0 1 1
San Diego 12 2 19 .375 15 4 7 5 1 1