Fernando Tatis Jr. delivers a five-hit performance as the San Diego Padres defeat the Colorado Rockies 8-7 on Tuesday night. Tatis goes 5-for-5 and drives in two runs in the first five hits of the game, marking the first five-single game of his Major League Baseball career. The standout outing makes him the first major leaguer to record five singles in a game this season, and the first Padres player to achieve the feat since Adrian González on Aug. 11, 2009.
The game remains close through the late innings, with neither team securing a decisive lead for long. In the bottom of the ninth, Xander Bogaerts provides the decisive moment with a sacrifice fly that scores the go-ahead run for San Diego. The Padres hold on for the one-run win over Colorado, 8-7. All accounts agree on the final score, Tatis’s five-hit performance and two RBIs, and Bogaerts’s ninth-inning sacrifice fly as the winning play.
