Padres break loose for 6 runs in the 5th inning and go on to beat the Brewers 7-3

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Merrill went 3 for 5 and singled home two runs during a six-run rally in the fifth inning as the San Diego Padres defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 on Monday night.

The game featuring two heralded 20-year-old rookies with the first name of Jackson — San Diego's Merrill and Milwaukee's Chourio — included big performances from both.

Chourio went 2 for 4, homered and scored twice. The outfielder's two-run shot in the second inning gave the Brewers an early 3-0 lead.

The Padres trailed 3-1 before their unusual outburst in the fifth. The rally featured no extra-base hits, but did include six singles, a walk, a passed ball, catcher’s interference and a pitch-clock violation.

“We just took what the game gave us and strung together a lot of good team at-bats and were able to put together a big crooked number to help us take that lead,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “And we were able to hold on to it.”

After consecutive singles from Luis Campusano, Tyler Wade and Xander Bogaerts loaded the bases to start the inning, the Brewers had a conference on the mound and kept starting pitcher Joe Ross in the game.

Fernando Tatis Jr. grounded into a fielder’s choice that brought home one run before Wade scored the tying run on a passed ball by catcher William Contreras.

Jake Cronenworth reached on catcher’s interference, loading the bases again, before Manny Machado hit an infield single that brought in Bogaerts with the go-ahead run.

“I had the ball in my glove already when he made contact with me, so I don't think that should be interference,” Contreras said through a translator about the catcher's interference call. “But that's baseball and that's the rules that are in play.”

Ross struck out Jurickson Profar and had a 3-2 count on Ha-Seong Kim before committing a pitch-clock violation that loaded the bases once more. Merrill, who turns 21 on Friday, singled home two runs and Campusano added an RBI single before Ross exited with the Padres leading 7-3.

“Just a lot of good approaches, guys with the right swings, right ideas," Shildt said.

Milwaukee brought the tying run to the plate during a ninth-inning rally that began with two outs and nobody on. After Oliver Dunn beat out an infield single and Stephen Kolek walked Chourio, Contreras greeted Robert Suarez with another infield hit.

Suarez then retired Sal Frelick on a fly to left to earn his sixth save in as many opportunities.

The Brewers had taken a 3-0 lead in the first two innings, but wasted chances to break the game open.

Brice Turang grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the first. Chourio’s two-run homer in the second could have been a three-run shot if Blake Perkins hadn’t been thrown out at third earlier in the inning. The Brewers had two runners on with nobody out in the third before Joe Musgrove retired three straight batters to end the threat.

“We didn’t put them away," manager Pat Murphy said. “We had a chance to put them away, and we didn't.”

Musgrove (2-2) struck out three and allowed seven hits, four walks and three runs over six innings. Ross (1-1) struck out four and allowed seven runs — six earned — as well as nine hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Brewers OF Christian Yelich missed a third straight game due to a back issue. Murphy said the Brewers plan to wait a day before determining whether to place the 2018 NL MVP on the injured list. Yelich is hitting .333 with a .422 on-base percentage, five homers and 11 RBIs in 11 games.

UP NEXT

RHP Dylan Cease (1-1, 2.16 ERA) pitches for the Padres and LHP Wade Miley (0-0, 2.25) starts for the Brewers when the three-game series continues Tuesday night.

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San Diego Padres' Luis Campusano hits an RBI single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

San Diego Padres' Manny Machado hiyts an RBI single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

San Diego Padres' Jackson Merrill hits a two-run scoring single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

San Diego Padres' Jackson Merrill hits a two-run scoring single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

San Diego Padres' Manny Machado hiyts an RBI single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras makes a play on a bunt by San Diego Padres' Tyler Wade during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Milwaukee Brewers' Joey Ortiz hits a single during the second inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

San Diego Padres' Manny Machado hits a single during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, April 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

BEIRUT (AP) — Leaked photographs of the son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns in the north African nation as Libyan authorities demand improvements.

The photos showed a room without natural light packed with Hannibal Gadhafi’s belongings, a bed and a tiny toilet. “I live in misery,” local Al-Jadeed TV quoted the detainee as saying in a Saturday evening broadcast, adding that he is a political prisoner in a case he has no information about.

Two Lebanese judicial officials confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that the photographs aired by Al-Jadeed are of Gadhafi and the cell where he has been held for years at police headquarters in Beirut. Gadhafi appeared healthy, with a light beard and glasses.

A person who is usually in contact with Gadhafi, a Libyan citizen, said the photos were taken in recent days. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media outlets.

Gadhafi has been held in Lebanon since 2015 after he was kidnapped from neighboring Syria, where he had been living as a political refugee. He was abducted by Lebanese militants demanding information about the fate of prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing during a trip to Libya in 1978.

The fate of al-Sadr has been a sore point in Lebanon. His family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan prison, though most Lebanese presume al-Sadr, who would be 95 now, is dead.

A Libyan delegation visited Beirut in January to reopen talks with Lebanese officials on the fate of al-Sadr and the release of Gadhafi. The talks were aimed at reactivating a dormant agreement between Lebanon and Libya, struck in 2014, for cooperation in the probe of al-Sadr. The delegation did not return to Beirut as planned.

The leaks by Al-Jadeed came after reports that Gadhafi was receiving special treatment at police headquarters and that he had cosmetic surgeries including hair transplants and teeth improvements. Al-Jadeed quoted him as saying: “Let them take my hair and teeth and give me my freedom.”

Gadhafi went on a hunger strike in June last year and was taken to a hospital after his health deteriorated.

Libya’s Justice Ministry in a statement Sunday said Gadhafi is being deprived of his rights guaranteed by law. It called on Lebanese authorities to improve his living conditions to one that “preserves his dignity," adding that Lebanese authorities should formally inform the ministry of the improvements. It also said Gadhafi deserves to be released.

After he was kidnapped in 2015, Lebanese authorities freed him but then detained him, accusing him of concealing information about al-Sadr’s disappearance.

Al-Sadr was the founder of the Amal group, a Shiite militia that fought in Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war and later became a political party that is currently led by the country’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Many of al-Sadr’s followers are convinced that Moammar Gadhafi ordered al-Sadr killed in a dispute over Libyan payments to Lebanese militias. Libya has maintained that the cleric, along with two traveling companions, left Tripoli in 1978 on a flight to Rome.

Human Rights Watch issued a statement in January calling for Gadhafi’s release. The rights group noted that Gadhafi was only 2 years old at the time of al-Sadr’s disappearance and held no senior position in Libya as an adult.

FILE - In this undated file photo made available Sept. 25, 2011, Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya. Leaked photographs of Hannibal Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns. Libyan authorities are demanding that Lebanon improves living conditions for Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)