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Final: NYY 2 @ SD 3

Campusano's Walk-Off Blast Sinks New York, 3-2

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Luis Campusano hit a two-run homer to left — 394 feet — in the tenth inning to flip San Diego's win probability from 22% to 100% and end New York's comeback bid. The Padres walked away with a 3-2 win in a game that was decided by one swing.

San Diego drew first blood in the second inning when Xander Bogaerts singled to center and Ty France scored, putting the Padres up 1-0. New York answered immediately. In the third, Ben Rice launched a 444-foot shot to center — a solo home run that knotted the game at one. Rice finished 3-for-4 with the homer and an RBI, and looks like the kind of player who refuses to let his team fall quietly. Walker Buehler worked five innings for San Diego, allowing 3 hits and 1 earned run while striking out 6. Max Fried matched him on the other side — 5.2 innings, 4 hits, 1 earned run, 4 strikeouts. Both starters did their jobs. The game was going to be decided elsewhere.

The tenth inning is where everything happened. Spencer Jones singled to center, scoring Luis García Jr. and giving New York a 2-1 lead. The Yankees were one out away from taking this game. Then Campusano stepped in. His two-run homer to left — 394 feet, Harris also scoring — turned a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 San Diego lead in one motion. The win probability swung from 22% to 100% on that single at-bat. That's the whole game, right there.

Mason Miller closed it out for San Diego with 2.0 innings of relief — 1 hit, 0 earned runs, 4 strikeouts. That's a dominant finishing line by any measure. Will Warren threw 2.1 innings for New York without allowing a hit, but the bullpen couldn't hold the lead when it mattered most. The story of the night was Campusano — 2-for-4, a home run, 2 RBI — delivering the kind of performance that makes a September game feel significant. San Diego took this one 3-2, and it wasn't pretty, but it didn't need to be.

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