Well that was ugly. Alec Sachais had a bad sequence in the 2nd where he gave up a leadoff double, the man went to 3rd on a fly ball, he wild pitched the runner home and then, rattled, gave up a homer, and followed that up by allowing a 2-run HR to Makhi Backstrom to make it 4-1 Padres in the 4th after Yordan Alvarez had homered to put the Rays up briefly in the top of the 2nd. And right after the Rays climbed back in it to make it 4-3 in the top of the 6th after Nate Clark singled and Judson Fabian doubled and both scored on groundouts, Jeremy Bowers imploded in the bottom of the 7th, effectively ending the game. Manny Machado took him deep and then the same-handed Backstrom hit a 2-run shot off him for his 2nd HR of the game, and that was that as the Padres won 10-4 to even up the series and assure us of a Game 6 at the Trop. Game 5 tomorrow will be a rematch of Game 1 with Christian Little against Jose Hernandez and for the Rays' sake it hopefully won't be a rerun.
