Jake Arrieta allows five runs in Padres debut at Coors Field, exits early with trainer

The San Diego Padres, a consensus preseason World Collection contender, are at the moment in a freefall. They entered Wednesday after back-to-back losses to the lowly Rockies and wer 1-6 of their final seven video games. The Padres are 18-22 since July 1, and through that point they have been worse than Colorado (20-19) and solely barely higher than the Diamondbacks (17-21). Ouch.

The Padres and Rockies are wrapping up their three-game collection Wednesday afternoon at Coors Subject (GameTracker), and San Diego despatched new addition Jake Arrieta to the mound. The Cubs launched Arrieta final week and the Padres quickly pounced as a result of their employees has been decimated by accidents. They’ve 13 pitchers on the injured checklist, together with Yu Darvish and Chris Paddack.

“I take accountability for a way I’ve carried out,” Arrieta informed reporters, including MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell, after signing with San Diego. “I count on to be higher, and I count on to be higher on a crew like this that’s trying ahead to profitable a World Collection. So as to try this, I want to be good for them.”  

Arrieta’s Padres debut didn’t go notably nicely. The Rockies tagged him for 5 runs on seven hits and a stroll in solely 3 1/3 innings, and Arrieta exited the sport with the coach after throwing 64 pitches. He’s apparently coping with hamstring tightness.

In his ultimate 15 begins with the Cubs, Arrieta pitched to a 8.95 ERA and allowed 19 dwelling runs in solely 58 1/3 innings. Hitters tagging him for a .355/.421/.645 batting line. Between that, the opposing starter (Chi Chi González and his 6.06 ERA), and the Coors Subject issue, Wednesday’s sport had the very best over/below whole of the MLB season at 14 runs, according to SportsLine. This is extra:

Two different Rockies dwelling video games noticed a complete as excessive as 13 this 12 months: Monday it completed Below as Colorado beat San Diego 6-5; and July 2 it additionally completed Below as Colorado misplaced to St. Louis 9-3. The Below is 15-5 in the Rockies’ previous 20 at dwelling total. The winds are blowing proper to left immediately at possibly 5 mph so should not be an element.

The Padres turned to Arrieta as a result of they’re brief on choices. Darvish and Paddack are harm, Dinelson Lamet just lately suffered a setback, Ryan Weathers will quickly set a brand new profession excessive in innings, and top prospect MacKenzie Gore has been a mechanical mess since last year. The crew’s rotation is at the moment Arrieta, Weathers, Joe Musgrove, Blake Snell, and TBA.

San Diego’s current fade has allowed the Reds to climb to inside 1 1/2 video games of the second wild card spot. That lead was 4 1/2 video games as just lately as eight days in the past. The Padres are actually in a spot the place they do not simply want Arrieta to chew up some innings. They want him to be efficient to stay in postseason place. Given his season to this point, that is a doubtful proposition.