Padres Triumph in Opener with King's Stellar Pitching

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00:00yesterday in San Diego and Michael King continues to deliver at the bump for the

00:06Padres allowed to earned yesterday but he's given up to earn just twice since

00:12the start of June make that 13 starts in a row as the Padres win the opener of

00:18their midweek set over the Minnesota Twins yesterday at home 5 to 3 the

00:24final Jackson Merrill the difference in the home half of the third a bases

00:28clearing double the rookie continues to deliver for San Diego as well the Padres

00:34bounce back from losing their weekend set in Colorado the Rockies with an

00:38opening victory in their midweek series against Minnesota certainly a team to

00:43watch no doubt about it or the Padres what did you like yesterday because

00:46forget about the players at the plate which I like their lineup it's pretty

00:49talented one through nine but the pitching performance that you get at a

00:52King a young pitcher coming over in the trade for Juan Soto 11 and 6 now in the

00:56season six innings pitch to earned runs a 3.18 era overall but what did the San

01:01Diego Padres do Ben at the trade deadline fortified that bullpen so King

01:06comes out of the game giving up two earned runs and what do you get the rest

01:09of the way here Adam Scott and Suarez did give up one when it was really out

01:12of reach there in the ninth inning but that's what you look at the e2 op 2.09

01:17for Adam Scott 1.33 and even with Suarez giving up that on his 28 save which is a

01:23half he's got a 1.82 era you leave with the lead in San Diego you're going to

01:28win that baseball game that's what you love about that's playoff baseball not

01:32scoring Ben 12 runs holding on 12 to 10 it's winning 5 to 3 3 to 2 3 to 1 that

01:38instance and the Padres got that hammer bullpen where they're gonna be able to

01:41hold on to leads which is key in the postseason