The damage came fast. Fernando Tatis Jr. went 3-for-3 with 2 RBI, Manny Machado hit a 2-run homer, and Jackson Merrill added a 2-RBI double as San Diego put up 5 runs in the first two innings and never trailed again.
San Francisco chipped away, cutting the deficit to 2 with runs in the 4th, 5th and 6th, and finished with 9 hits, matching San Diego's total. It just never had enough innings left to erase a 5-run head start against a lineup that's been one of the better ones in the sport since the All-Star break.
The Padres' bullpen closed it out in relay: Wandy Peralta picked up the win, Randy Vasquez handled the eighth, and Yuki Matsui struck out the side for his first save of the season. San Diego also got a nice footnote out of it — Ethan Salas collected his first career hit, a triple in the fourth, making him the youngest player since Machado in 2012 to debut with a three-bagger.
The Polymarket chat ran hot through the middle innings and stayed that way to the finish — room traffic came in more than 3 times the season's typical crowd. "Like this message if you took a W on over" pulled 14 reactions late, and "Go panhandle on the street guys not in the chat please" wasn't far behind. Dustin Harris, who'd driven in 5 runs across the series' first two games at Oracle Park, didn't factor into Sunday's box score — the lineup didn't need him to.