At precisely 100 innings between his major and minor league stops this year, Christian Friedrich may well run up against an innings limit before season’s end. Of course, the reliever-turned-starter may well have gotten through the Padres’ 5-4 loss to the Phillies unscathed if it weren’t for Cameron Rupp.
The Phillies’ catcher touched Friedrich for a three-run homer and a run-scoring double, spoiling a career-best seven-inning start and a late power surge that saw Alexei Ramirez hit his first career pinch-hit homer and Wil Myers tie a Petco Park record with his 15th homer at home.
Myers’ eighth-inning blast – just his second since the home run derby – cut the Padres’ deficit to a run only to have a replay review uphold a double play off the bat of Derek Norris that erased Jabari Blash’s leadoff single in the ninth.