Padres' five home runs are most at home since June 2021; Blake Snell allows one run in six innings
A team challenged for power virtually all season hit five home runs in a rout of the Twins on Friday night.
Luke Voit and Manny Machado hit two-run homers sandwiched around solo shots by Ha-Seong Kim and Eric Hosmer, and Jorge Alfaro hit a three-run homer. The home runs and Voit’s RBI double powered a 10-1 victory over the leaders of the American League Central.home run of the season was the only run off Padres starter Blake Snell in his sixth innings. The Twins had a runner in scoring position with less than two outs in the fifth and sixth, but Snell escaped both times.
It was the fifth time this season in which the Padres scored six or more runs in an inning but the first time they did so at home. Voit sent a two-out, two-run homer just over the wall in left field in the first inning. Kim, who had homered once in his previous 217 at-bats, hit a solo shot to left with two outs in the second. Hosmer ripped a solo homer a projected 410 feet to straightaway center field in the fourth.homer of the season in the fifth. Voit added an RBI double three batters later. Two batters later, Alfaro cleared the right-field wall.
The Padres entered the game with just 81 home runs, fifth fewest in the major leagues. They had hit three home runs in just three games all season.
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