The most fun team of the year, that year approaching its end.
And then.
TATIS!!!
The @Padres are back in it. pic.twitter.com/1XwJFbksfQ
— MLB (@MLB) October 2, 2020
We got a ball game!
Tatis and Machado go back to back to tie it up! pic.twitter.com/lG1mSBnI78
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) October 2, 2020
Machado back 2 backkkk
— David Ortiz (@davidortiz) October 2, 2020
Fernando Tatis Jr., star of stars in this 2020 season, goes deep with a three-run homer to left. And then Manny Machado. Back to back, for the fourth time on the year.
Duo of duos. Team of teams.
And the home-run happy Padres are alive again.
Tatis and Machado, who went back-to-back three times in the regular season have done it again and we…are…tied.
— jesse agler (@jesseagler) October 2, 2020
Chipped away. Stuck around. Brought it back. pic.twitter.com/On8PlYA6cd
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) October 2, 2020
Here’s the radio call:
Manny Machado ties the game at 6 with a back to back home run following Fernando Tatis' 3-run bomb: pic.twitter.com/XCoCJBuKYP
— 97.3 The Fan (@973TheFanSD) October 2, 2020
Manny Machado's home run was the 2nd time in Padres history they've hit back-to-back homers in the playoffs (1998 vs Yankees).
That was the 4th time Fernando Tatís Jr. and Manny Machado hit back-to-back home runs this season. pic.twitter.com/awMZiLeE0C
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 2, 2020
From the Tatis home run onward, the floodgates as they say burst open. Rushing a torrent behind home plate, jet-streaming baseballs up into the upper decks above the left-field walls.
In the seventh inning, Tatis homered again.
And then Wil Myers homered.
An inning after that, Myers homered again.
The Padres win it, 11-9. The way they’ve won all season, as if it were the only way their season would be saved.
The best game of this 2020 postseason so far.
Battled back.#PadresWin pic.twitter.com/mXkm376APG
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) October 2, 2020