DENVER — Gary Sánchez homered twice and drove in 4 runs, Juan Soto went deep for the third time in two days and the San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 11-1 on Wednesday.
Sánchez had two of his three hits in San Diego’s seven-run ninth inning.
Ha-Seong Kim homered leading off the sport and Fernando Tatís Jr. hit a towering three-run homer to assist the new-look Padres win for the fifth time in six games.
San Diego traded for five players before the Tuesday deadline to assist with a playoff push in the ultimate two months of the season.
“The last week, the last 10 days, we’ve played probably our greatest baseball,” Tatís said. “We’re going to maintain it going.”
Xander Bogaerts had three hits for the Padres, whose scheduled starter Joe Musgrove was scratched resulting from stiffness in his right shoulder.
Nick Martinez served because the opener and tossed three scoreless innings.
Jurickson Profar led off the underside of the primary with a double for the Rockies and Martinez retired nine straight before leaving.
“All my pitches felt good, all of my stuff felt pretty tight,” Martinez said. “I wasn’t missing too many locations.”
San Diego had three of its recent players in uniform Wednesday — Ji Man Choi, Garrett Cooper and Scott Barlow, who relieved Ray Kerr (1-1) within the sixth inning and struck out three in 1²/₃ innings.
Kim made it 1-0 together with his fourth leadoff homer and 14th of the 12 months off of Colorado starter Kyle Freeland (4-12). Soto, who had two homers Tuesday night, hit a 449-foot blast into the second deck in right field within the third inning made it 3-0.
“Looks as if he was sitting dead red on a fastball,” Freeland said about Soto. “It was well above the zone, up near his chest, but that caliber of player, if he’s sitting on a pitch like that he’s often capable of get to it.”
Sánchez hit solo home runs within the sixth and ninth innings to present him 14 on the season. It was his seventeenth profession multihomer game.
Tatís blew it open with a 444-foot three-run homer within the ninth, his nineteenth.
“It ended up being a pleasant day offensively for us,” manager Bob Melvin said. “We won three in a row against Texas, we’ve a very tough night here the primary game after which respond with two big games. Hopefully it’s a trend for us.”
The Rockies got their lone run on Elehuris Montero’s bases-loaded groundout within the fourth inning after Kerr had walked two and hit Brenton Doyle with one out. Kerr settled all the way down to strike out six in 2¹/₃ innings.
“It’s an excellent arm,” Colorado manager Bud Black said. “He threw enough strikes to get through.”
