Joey Lucchesi is rarely hit hard. It’s the free passes that tend to smear his starts, although not even the Rockies could do enough with the career-high five walks that the 26-year-old left-hander danced around Saturday night.
Wil Myers continued a hot September with his 17th homer and Manny Machado added his 29th, all the support a wild but extremely effective Lucchesi needed to down the Rockies, 3-0, to snap the Padres’ four-game skid.
“Joey has a way to suppress hard contact,” Padres manager Andy Green said. “He can still get punchouts. For him, as long as he eliminates the free passes, he usually ends up in a pretty good spot by the end of the day.