Rengifo Grand Slam Blows It Open as Padres Rout Brewers 11-2
Luis Rengifo's 366-foot grand slam to left in the second inning swung the win probability from 53% to 89% and effectively ended this game before Milwaukee could blink. San Diego piled on from there, with three home runs and a nine-run cushion by the sixth, finishing off the Brewers 11-2.
The second inning was the whole story. San Diego had already scratched one run across on a Cronenworth double that scored Hays, but the game turned violent when Rengifo stepped in with the bases loaded and sent one 366 feet to left — Campusano, Cronenworth, and Tatis Jr. all scoring — to make it 5-0 in a single swing. That one play swung the home win probability from 53% to 89%, and Milwaukee never recovered. Rengifo finished 2-for-5 with 4 RBI on the night.
San Diego kept the boot on Milwaukee's throat inning by inning. Tatis Jr. went the other way for a 382-foot solo shot to right in the fourth to push it to 6-1. Campusano answered Milwaukee's lone threat with a 379-foot two-run blast to left center in the fifth, making it 8-1. The sixth was a pile-on: Merrill doubled to score Machado, Hays grounded out to score France, and then Campusano singled to left — Merrill scoring on a throwing error by left fielder Lockridge — to cap the inning at 11-1. Campusano finished 3-for-4 with a homer, 3 RBI, and 2 runs scored. Machado went 3-for-4. This looked like a lineup that had no interest in letting up.
On the mound, Walker Buehler was efficient and largely unbothered — 6.0 innings, 3 hits, 1 earned run, 2 walks, 5 strikeouts. Milwaukee's only real moment came in the third when a Chourio groundout scored Hamilton to make it 5-1, but that was the extent of any genuine threat until a cosmetic Turang double in the ninth scored Lara to set the final at 11-2. Griffin Canning handled the next two innings for San Diego, allowing 1 earned run over 2.0 innings. The Brewers' offense appears to have had no answer for San Diego's pitching depth or its lineup's willingness to keep swinging. This was a thorough, professional dismantling.