Shields Leads Padres Past Phillies 9-4
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — James Shields pitched seven innings for his first road win since May, and the San Diego Padres hit three homers in a 9-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
Shields allowed one run and six hits with eight strikeouts and one walk. The right-hander was 0-4 with a 5.63 ERA in his previous eight road starts since his last win away from Petco Park on May 24.
Matt Kemp, Justin Upton and Yangervis Solarte went deep for San Diego, which avoided losing all six games versus the Phillies this season.
Cameron Rupp homered and Odubel Herrera had four singles for Philadelphia.
Alec Asher (0-1) allowed four runs and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings in his major league debut. A 2012 fourth-round pick of Texas, Asher acquired in the July 30 trade that sent ace left-hander Cole Hamels to the Rangers.
Asher needed 27 pitches to get out of a shaky first inning. The Padres scored two runs on Kemp's drive to left for his 16th homer, extending his on-base streak to 19 straight games.
Asher set a franchise record by becoming the fifth starter this season to make his major league debut.
Rupp's opposite-field shot in the second got Philadelphia within 2-1 and made it seven homers in 16 games for the catcher.
Upton cleared the wall in left-center in the third for his 24th homer, and Shields put the Padres up 5-1 with his first RBI of the season and fifth of his career on a sixth-inning single.
The Padres padded their lead with three runs in the eighth. Derek Norris and pinch-hitters Clint Barmes and Brett Wallace each drove in a run.
Phillies reliever Adam Loewen started the inning but left without recording an out after giving up four singles and a walk.
Asher's father, Bob, introduced his son prior to his third-inning at-bat. Bob Asher is the public address announcer at Joker Merchant Stadium, which is the Florida spring training home of the Detroit Tigers.
Yonder Alonso had three hits for the Padres, finishing their road trip 8-for-19.
UP NEXT
Padres: San Diego starts an 11-game homestand on Monday night when RHP Tyson Ross (9-9, 3.42 ERA) faces Texas RHP Colby Lewis (14-6, 4.38 ERA).
Phillies: Philadelphia heads to New York for a three-game series against the Mets beginning on Monday night when rookie RHP Jerad Eickhoff (1-1, 2.25 ERA) opposes Mets RHP Bartolo Colon (11-11, 4.68 ERA). The Mets swept the Phillies, outscoring them 40-21, at Citizens Bank Park last week.
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