Xander Bogaerts misses a cycle by a single as the Padres roll past the Rockies 9-2
Bogaerts homered, tripled and doubled before striking out twice, and the Padres moved four games ahead in the wild-card race, the team said.
- On Thursday, San Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts homered, tripled, and doubled in a 9-2 win over the Colorado Rockies in Denver, finishing a single shy of the cycle.
- Bogaerts spearheaded a seven-run second inning with a leadoff homer—his 12th of the season—and an RBI triple, igniting San Diego's early offensive surge.
- Seeking to complete the cycle, Bogaerts struck out in his final two at-bats—looking in the sixth and swinging in the ninth—leaving him one base hit short.
- The surging Padres have won 10 of 11 games, extending their lead over idle Arizona to four games for the final National League wild-card berth.
- Pitcher Michael King tossed six solid innings while the struggling Rockies dropped their 10th game in 11, remaining on pace for a fourth consecutive 100-loss season.
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Santa Maria Times
DENVER (AP) — Xander Bogaerts connected a home run and a triple booster during a second seven-run inning to help the San Diego Fathers beat Colorado's rocking Rockies by 9-2 on Thursday.
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Xander Bogaerts misses a cycle by a single as the Padres roll past the Rockies 9-2
Xander Bogaerts lamented the single he couldn’t get to complete the cycle
DENVER, Colorado.- With their 9-2 beat on the Rockies on Thursday afternoon, the Fathers extended to four games their advantage over the Diamondbacks in the fight for the National League Wild. The Fathers have won 10 of their last 11 games and had a 6-1 mark on their tour of San Francisco and Colorado. [...] La entrada Fathers imposes 9-2 on Rockies aparece primero en PSN Noticias.
'I wanted it bad': Bogaerts narrowly misses cycle on historic day
DENVER -- Xander Bogaerts got the hardest parts out of the way early. He homered to lead off the second inning on Thursday afternoon, then, after the Padres batted around, he tripled to cap a seven-run rally. In the fourth, he laced a double that one-hopped the left-center-field wall at
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