Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
San Diego 3, San Francisco 1
When: 10:05 PM ET, Monday, May 17, 2010
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature: 66°
Umpires: Home - Mike Everitt, 1B - Andy Fletcher, 2B - Adrian Johnson, 3B - Tim McClelland
Attendance: 20558

Clayton Richard pitched seven solid innings and David Eckstein scored twice as the San Diego Padres continued their 2010 mastery of the San Francisco Giants with a 3-1 win on Monday.

San Diego has won all seven meetings with the Giants this season and has held San Francisco to just nine runs in the process.

Richard (3-2) allowed one run and three hits while beating the Giants for the second time in less than a week. He struck out five and walked three.

Heath Bell pitched the ninth for his 11th save.

Eckstein went 2-for-4 with a walk. He singled in the fifth and scored on Chase Headley’s single. In the seventh, Eckstein walked and scored when Kyle Blanks was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Adrian Gonzalez homered in the first for the Padres’ other run.

San Francisco’s lone run scored in the fourth when Juan Uribe singled in Pablo Sandoval.

Matt Cain (2-3) gave up two runs and six hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked five.




Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Francisco   San Diego
Matt Cain Player Clayton Richard
Loss W/L Win
6.0 IP 7.0
5 Strikeouts 5
6 Hits 3
3.00 ERA 1.29
Hitting
San Francisco   San Diego
Pablo Sandoval Player David Eckstein
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
1 TB 2
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Francisco 4 0 5 .133 19 9 1 5 0 0
San Diego 8 1 11 .286 21 6 3 8 1 0