The Padres faced off against a hot Atlanta Braves team on a cool summer Tuesday night in San Diego.

Getting the nod on the mound for the Friars was the struggling Griffin Canning, while Atlanta handed the ball to JR Ritchie. Wandy Peralta was slated in as Canning’s opener. In his one inning of action, Peralta looked dominant as usual, striking out two of the three he faced. Going into the tilt, the 34-year-old veteran held a 1.91 ERA in 32 games pitched thus far.

Canning took the mound to start the second, and things got ugly quickly. A pair of hits plus a hit by pitch loaded the bases with no outs and called for a Ruben Niebla mound visit. From there, designated hitter Rowdy Tellez drove in a pair, starting the scoring and putting Atlanta up 2-0. A Michael Harris RBI put Atlanta up 3-0, and Canning made an early exit, failing to get through even a single inning.

Kyle Hart entered in relief with the bases loaded, facing infielder Matt Olson, whom he immediately walked in to extend the Braves’ lead to four runs.

The Padres battled back in the second, with a pair of walks and RBI singles coming from catcher Rodolfo Duran and second baseman Sung-Mon Song. The rally continued with Fernando Tatis Jr. providing an RBI double, as San Diego crawled back within 1. Recent standout Samad Taylor then immediately provided an electric infield smack, leading to an errant throw by the Braves that allowed Song and Tatis to score, handing the lead to the Friars for the first time to close out the second inning 5-4.

In the top of the fourth, a long shot out to left field by Ozzie Albies dropped in and brought home Michael Harris. This effectively ended long reliever Kyle Hart’s night as San Diego elected to bring in Japanese left-hander Yuki Matsui to close out the inning.

At the top of the fifth, the Braves once again regained the lead on a Mauricio Dubon solo shot to the left field bleachers. The action didn’t slow down in the sixth, as the Braves quietly loaded the bases against Matsui in the top of the sixth with just one out. With his back against the wall, Matsui struck out Matt Olson with a four-seamer at the knees before inducing a pop-up against left fielder Dominic Smith to get out of the bases-loaded jam.

This capped off an impressive 2.1 inning night for Matsui, who raised his ERA to 1.46 after allowing one run.

Carlos Carrasco entered for the Braves in the bottom of the sixth, relieving JR Ritchie. Ritchie was ultimately able to lock in after a shaky start and put out three innings of scoreless baseball in the third through fifth, keeping the Braves in the game. He ended his day with five earned runs and seven strikeouts. Carrasco went on to pitch 1.2 innings of two-hit baseball in relief and provided a bridge to the later innings for Atlanta.

After several innings of scoreless baseball, a two-out base hit by Samad Taylor in the bottom of the ninth looked like the beginning of a potential rally, but the Padres’ efforts fell short as the Braves forced extra innings. The hit topped off a three-for-four day for Taylor, who has been a bright spot in a fairly dormant Friars offense in 2026.

After star closer and former Oakland Athletic Mason Miller threw an 11-pitch inning in the ninth, he headed back out to the mound for the start of the tenth. The reaper’s slider looked particularly nasty, and Miller quickly went 1-2-3 in the tenth to get San Diego’s offense back to the plate still tied up 6-6. This marked the first time since September of 2024 that Miller pitched two full innings, doing so in 22 impressive pitches.

Manny Machado’s 10th career walk-off hit 🤩 pic.twitter.com/RmbiJuFdd2

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Remaining in for the Bravos to start the tenth was right-hander Raisel Iglesias. This would prove to be a curious decision, as Manny Machado belted the ball out to center field on the very first pitch of the inning, sending ghost runner Jackson Merrill around third base and into home right off the bat to give the Friars the walk-off win.

San Diego will hope this is a sign of a continuing resurgence in Machado’s play.

The walk-off marked the tenth of Machado’s career and gifted the Padres game two of the three-game series.

Billy Seidlitz

Billy has spent a majority of his life following San Diego sports and worked in San Diego for many years. Now residing in Newport Beach he recently obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from Chapman University and now works as an Associate Personal Injury Attorney. Billy enjoys supporting the Padres and SDFC from Orange County and making the drive down for big games. He is passionate about analytics and writing about sports.