WASHINGTON —
For the second straight day, the team with the excellent bullpen beat the team that might as well not have one.
This time it wasn’t a home run in their final at-bat that won it but a few hits, a couple walks, a hit batter and two sacrifice flies that produced a six-run 10th inning that lifted the Padres to an 8-3 victory Saturday over Washington at Nationals Park.
The Padres scored so much in that final inning that closer Kirby Yates sat down in the bullpen after warming up, missing out on a chance to save a fifth Padres victory in a row.