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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
— Mason Miller’s hands went up in exultation. “I saw the ball in his glove,” Miller said.
“I thought he had it still.” Miller’s hands dropped quickly to his side in frustrated dejection. That sequence in the ninth inning Sunday summed up just about perfectly the Padres’ weekend at Tropicana Field.
Victory just would not happen, as the conclusion came in the form of a gut punch of a 5-4 loss to the Rays in 11 innings. “Tough one to swallow,” Fernando Tatis Jr.
said afterward. It was with two outs in the ninth inning, with the Padres ahead 3-1 and a runner on first base, that Miller hung a slider up and in to Jonny DeLuca, who pulled it down the left-field line.
Taylor closed in on the ball after a run of about 80 feet toward the shortest portion of the wall and had the ball in his glove in front of and just above the 5-foot wall before his wrist smacked into the wall and the ball fell to the ground on the other side of the wall.
📏 319 ft | 💨 90.7 mph | 📐 40° ⚾️ 88.4 mph slider (SDP – RHP Mason Miller) 🏟️ Out in 1/30 parks (🎯 TB) SDP (3) @ TBR (3) 🔻 9th #RaysUp pic.twitter.com/6kTzst3QYg “Hit my glove and should be caught,” Taylor said. “We should be having a different conversation.
Should be having a conversation about a win, and instead, we’re having a conversation about a mistake that I made.” He probably would have caught the ball were he not 5-foot-8 and going almost full speed when his arm collided at the angle it did. “Six inches higher, it’s a catch,” Miller said.
“Six inches lower, it’s probably a catch. But it’s right at the wrist height.
And I know Samad probably feels terrible, too, but he is making a baseball play,” Taylor was spot on about the conversation that could have been had.
Playing the American League’s best team, the Padres had the final two games of the series in hand before the practically impermeable back end of their bullpen blew late leads.
Saturday, the Padres suffered just their fourth loss in the 61 games in which they held a lead in the seventh inning when Bradgley Rodriguez was charged with four runs in the seventh inning and the Rays held on for a 7-6 victory. What happened Sunday had never happened in 2026.
It was the first time in 60 games this season that the Padres lost when leading after eight innings. “What a crazy series,” DeLuca said.
“Just in general. But I mean, yeah, that’s probably the mo st exciting one we’ve had this year.”
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