At times, Luis Perdomo’s emerging sinker will fail him as it did Saturday evening. So, too, might Andy Green’s reconstructed bullpen in the post-Fernando Rodney era.
Of late, the Padres’ surging offense looks sturdy enough to weather such storms.
Rookie Ryan Schimpf was inches short of his second two-homer game, Matt Kemp hit his 17th of the year and the Padres walked off with a 7-6 win on a balk in the 10th inning in front of 40,550 at Petco Park.
The final rally came after the Giants tagged the Padres’ bullpen for three home runs – two off Carlos Villanueva in the sixth to tie the game at 5-5 and Buster Posey’s go-ahead shot off Kevin Quackenbush in the 10th.