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PADRES POSTCAST: TATIS TAKES OVER! Padres Crush 4 Homers, 4 Pitchers Shut Down Astros in 7-2 Win
The San Diego Padres brought the POWER and the PITCHING in a statement 7-2 win over the Houston Astros to take the series at Petco Park.
Fernando Tatis Jr. delivered the biggest swing of the night — a 421-foot three-run bomb in the fourth inning that erased a 2-1 deficit and gave San Diego a lead it never surrendered.
And Tatis wasn’t alone.
Jackson Merrill launched a 411-foot homer, Gavin Sheets went 393 feet, and newly signed Austin Hays homered in his very first Padres plate appearance, crushing a two-run shot in the eighth to put the game away.
But the pitching may have been just as…
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