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Padres break Opening Day attendance record at Petco Park

Related Topics: Petco Park, Gavin Sheets

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Padres fans showed out Thursday at Petco Park for Opening Day against the Atlanta Braves.

So much so that the Padres set an all-time Petco Park opening day attendance record with 45,568 people, the team said in an Instagram post Thursday.

What a time to do it in downtown San Diego on a beautiful day with the Padres winning in dramatic fashion, 7-4.

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Down 4-3 in the seventh inning, Padres pinch-hitter Gavin Sheets was the catalyst for a four-run rally that included his game-tying homerun.