Heroes and Zeroes is a series of articles where I use the Wins Probability Added (WPA) metric available at www.fangraphs.com to rank each player to have appeared in any given game. The three players with the highest positive impact are the "heroes," the three with the highest negative impact are the "zeroes."
Heroes
Solarte batted second for the Padres and doubled with one out in the first off Jose Urena for the first baserunner of the game (+4.1%). In the third, he hit a one-out, RBI triple to right field, scoring Will Venable and giving the Padres a 2-0 lead (+14.