Milwaukee Brewers vs San Diego Padres Match Player Stats On May 16, 2017

The Sports Xchange
May 17, 2017

SAN DIEGO -- Jimmy Nelson took a shutout into the sixth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers scored five runs in the top of the first inning off Clayton Richard en route to a 6-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday.

Nelson (2-2) allowed a 424-foot homer to Wil Myers among seven hits in six-plus innings. He struck out eight and walked one as Milwaukee won for the seventh time in nine games.

Nelson got all the runs he needed before the Padres swung a bat.

Richard (2-5) retired the first hitter he faced then gave up five straight hits.

Four straight singles by Keon Broxton, Hernan Perez, Jesus Aguilar and Domingo Santana gave the Brewers a quick 2-0 lead. Aguilar and Santana drove in the runs.

Manny Pina then hit a two-run double and scored on a two-out single by Eric Sogard.

Richard gave up a final run in the top of the sixth. Sogard got the third of his career-high four hits, a two-out double. Nelson drove him home with a single.

Richard gave up six runs on 10 hits and no walks with seven strikeouts in six innings.

The Padres scored their second run when Hunter Renfroe and Matt Szczur opened the seventh with back-to-back doubles off Nelson.

Trailing by four runs, the Padres had two runners thrown out on the bases to end the seventh and open the eighth. Matt Szczur made the final out of the seventh trying to score from third on a fly ball to right and Cory Spangenberg was picked off first after opening the eighth with a single.

NOTES: Brewers 1B-OF Eric Thames was re-diagnosed Tuesday morning with strep throat and missed a second straight game. He had missed Monday's series opener with what was described as a combination of the flu and sore legs. ... 3B Travis Shaw missed a second straight start with a sprained right index finger suffered while fielding a ground ball Sunday. He is listed as day-to-day. ... The two-run, walk-off homer by the Padres' Hunter Renfroe in the bottom of the 10th Monday was the Padres' first extra-inning, walk-off homer since Fred McGriff connected in 1993. Renfroe also tied a Padres record Tuesday when he recorded an outfield assist in a third straight game. ... CF Manuel Margot's 43 hits is a 40-game record for a Padres rookie. The old mark was 40 hits shared by Josh Barfield (2006), Xavier Nady (2003) and Benito Santiago (1987).