The San Diego Padres formally acquired two-time batting champion Luis Arraez from the Miami Marlins on Saturday morning, and he wasted no time making an influence. In his Padres debut Saturday night time, Arraez went 4-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and one run pushed in because the DH and leadoff hitter. He’s the primary participant ever with 4 hits in his first sport with the Padres.
Arraez helped San Diego to a 13-1 win (field rating) over the Arizona Diamondbacks regardless of not arriving to Chase Area till about an hour earlier than first pitch, in keeping with USA At the moment. He had been with the Marlins in Oakland for his or her sequence with the Athletics. Listed below are Arraez’s first hit and first RBI as a Padre:
The four-hit sport is Arraez’s second of the season — he went 4-for-5 towards the St. Louis Cardinals on April 7 — and the fourth by a Padre this season. Jake Cronenworth, Jackson Merrill, and Jurickson Profar all had four-hit video games beforehand. Arraez now has 15 profession four-hit video games, nineteenth most amongst energetic gamers regardless of this solely being his sixth season.
“It is actually wonderful. The man is a baller,” Fernando Tatis Jr. mentioned about Arraez previous to Saturday’s sport (through MLB.com). “The man might be the closest to Tony Gwynn that there’s proper now, so I am trying ahead to seeing him within the lineup.”
The Padres weren’t brief on offense earlier than buying and selling for Arraez. They entered play Saturday averaging 4.86 runs per sport, seventh most in baseball. Pitching has been their largest concern, although. Their workforce 4.19 ERA was sixth highest within the Nationwide League coming into Saturday. That mentioned, there’s by no means a foul time so as to add a hitter like Arraez to the lineup.
Nonetheless solely 27, the Padres determine to make use of Arraez primarily at DH. He may also see a while at first and second bases with Cronenworth and Xander Bogaerts biking by way of the DH spot now and again. Following Saturday’s four-hit sport, Arraez owns a .315/.359/.392 batting line this season.
Saturday’s win improved the Padres to 18-18. They’ve gained their final 4 video games. In the meantime, the D-Backs dropped to 14-20. The reigning NL champions have misplaced seven of their final 9 video games whereas being outscored 55-16.
