Among the goodbyes that Graham Pauley issued as he packed his bags for Triple-A El Paso 11 days ago was something akin to a promise to Tom Cosgrove, his locker-mate in the home clubhouse at Petco Park. “I told him I was just going to rake and come back up here,” Pauley said. “I told him I was going to hit 15 bombs in a couple weeks and come back up here.” The Padres’ 23-year-old prospect was certainly trending in that direction. Pauley hit his fourth homer in nine games on Friday, packed his bag...
The Padres completed their third late-inning comeback victory of the season by topping the Dodgers 8-7 on Friday night. Rookie Jackson Merrill poked a single through the left side with two outs and two strikes in the top of the 11th inning to score José Azocar from second base with the winning run. Robert Suarez then set down the Dodgers in order to complete his fifth save, his third in which he got more than three outs. Enyel De Los Santos got the first two outs of the 10th before giving way to...
Lazio players were booed by their own fans but they restored some pride after a recent poor run to beat bottom club Salernitana 4-1 on Friday and climb to seventh place in the Italian league. The capital club came into the match on the back of losses to rivals Juventus and Roma and fans displayed a banner reading “You Are Not Worthy Of Wearing Our Shirt” before the game. Recently appointed coach Igor Tudor was without a number of top players, Ciro Immobile and Matteo Guendouzi among them, but...