It didn’t seem Kirby Yates would be needed, but of course he was.
“We don’t play games like that,” Yates said with a laugh.
Because the Padres generally do win by the slimmest of margins — and because Adam Warren entered the ninth inning with a four-run lead and had it become three before he could get an out — Yates now has another unique distinction.
By getting the final three outs of the Padres’ 5-2 victory over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, his third save in the three-game sweep, Yates became the first Padres pitcher ever with 20 saves in the first 50 games of a season.