MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez had two hits and drove in three runs, including a go-ahead RBI groundout in the 10th inning, and the surging San Diego Padres beat the Miami Marlins 9-8 on Saturday.
David Peralta singled twice and doubled for the Padres, who have won seven straight and 16 of their last 18 games. San Diego clinched its eighth consecutive series and has won 17 of 21 on the road.
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MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez had two hits and drove in three runs, including a go-ahead RBI groundout in the 10th inning, and the surging San Diego Padres beat the Miami Marlins 9-8 on Saturday.
San Diego Padres' Ha-Seong Kim runs after hitting a single to score David Peralta during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres' David Peralta scores on a single hit by Ha-Seong Kim during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Matt Waldron reacts after giving up back-to-back singles to Miami Marlins' Jake Burger and Jesus Sanchez during the third inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Miami Marlins' Vidal Brujan celebrates as he rounds third base after hitting a solo home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez follows through on a single to score Bryce Johnson during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
“It’s a privilege to manage a game like that with the club we have,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “The desire, the ability to compete, and the dedication to playing the game right — that’s what it’s all about.”
Ha-Seong Kim drew a leadoff walk against reliever John McMillon (0-1) to start the winning rally. Kyle Higashioka’s sacrifice bunt advanced Kim and automatic runner Tyler Wade before Luis Arraez hit a soft grounder to first baseman Jonah Bride that scored Wade.
Arraez is 4 for 11 in the first two games of the series against his former club. He won the NL batting title with Miami last season before being traded to San Diego on May 4.
“They were very challenging at-bats, they know me well,” Arraez said in Spanish. “You always wait for an opportunity to do something well.”
Robert Suarez (7-1) pitched a perfect ninth for the win, with 11 of his 15 pitches reaching 100 mph.
“The main thing is being healthy but also the hard work and preparation you do,” Suárez said. “Thankfully, you are seeing the results.”
Miami’s Derek Hill reached on a leadoff bunt single against reliever Tanner Scott in the bottom of the 10th, advancing automatic runner Vidal Bruján to third. After pinch hitter Cristian Pache popped out, Xavier Edwards hit a grounder to third baseman Manny Machado, who threw Bruján out at home. Acquired from Miami at the trade deadline, Scott struck out Jake Burger for his 19th save.
“Our group is very united and that is the key as to why things are going great,” Arraez said. “There is not one rotten apple on this team.”
The Marlins have lost five of six and three straight in extra innings.
Jackson Merrill’s two-run homer in the eighth tied it at 7-all.
Peralta followed with a double and Kim’s sacrifice bunt advanced pinch runner Bryce Johnson to third. Arraez’s two-out infield single scored Johnson and to put the Padres ahead.
Miami tied it in the bottom half on Burger’s solo blast, his 21st homer and 11th since the All-Star break.
“It fired me up,” Burger said of his homer. “I gave a couple of fist bumps. You almost blacked out in those situations.”
The Marlins sent 12 to the plate and scored six runs in the fifth for a 7-3 lead. Jesús Sánchez and Otto López hit two-run doubles against Padres starter Matt Waldron and reliever Jeremiah Estrada. Hill added a sacrifice fly and Jhonny Pereda followed with a run-scoring single.
Shildt praised reliever Jhony Brito, who ended Miami’s rally by getting the last out in the fifth and pitched two additional scoreless innings. The former Yankee was recalled from Triple-A El Paso on Friday.
“Don’t forget Jhony Brito in this equation. He kept it right there,” Shildt said. “Huge, effective job by Jhony to set us up for the later use of our guys.”
The Padres loaded the bases on three consecutive singles to start the seventh against reliever Declan Cronin. Arraez then hit an RBI groundout before Cronin hit Jurickson Profar with a pitch. Jake Cronenworth followed with an RBI fielder’s choice to get San Diego within 7-5.
Marlins starter Roddery Muñoz gave up six hits and struck out three in five innings of three-run ball.
Waldron was lifted after 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander allowed five runs and five hits, walked two and struck out five.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: OF PJ Morlando, the club’s No. 1 selection in this year’s draft, will miss the rest of the season because of a lumbar stress reaction. The 19-year Morlando began his professional career with Single-A Jupiter.
UP NEXT
RHP Dylan Cease (11-8, 3.40) will start the series finale for the Padres on Sunday, while RHP Max Meyer (2-2, 5.10) gets the start for the Marlins.
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Miami Marlins' Vidal Brujan watches after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres' Ha-Seong Kim runs after hitting a single to score David Peralta during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres' David Peralta scores on a single hit by Ha-Seong Kim during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Matt Waldron reacts after giving up back-to-back singles to Miami Marlins' Jake Burger and Jesus Sanchez during the third inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Miami Marlins' Vidal Brujan celebrates as he rounds third base after hitting a solo home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez follows through on a single to score Bryce Johnson during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli official confirmed that the Israeli military targeted Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official, in Friday's airstrike on Beirut.
It wasn't immediately clear if Akil was killed in the Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs that killed at least three people and wounded 17 others, according to Lebanese health officials. The Israeli official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a behind the scenes security matter.
An official close to the Hezbollah militant group, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to brief the media, confirmed to The Associated Press that Akil was supposed to be in the building when it was targeted Friday. The official couldn't confirm if Akil was killed.
Akil has served as the head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force and Jihad Council, the group’s highest military body. The U.S. State Department has sanctioned Akil for his alleged role in carrying out the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and that he had directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there during the 1980s.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday killed at least three people and wounded more than a dozen others, Lebanese health officials said, the first Israeli attack on Lebanon's capital in months that came shortly after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets.
Israel announced the strike, but didn't immediately specify the target in Beirut's crowded southern suburbs, where Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group holds sway. An Israeli officials
Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that at least three people were killed and 17 others wounded as local networks broadcast footage of wounded people being pulled from the ruins of a flattened building and ambulances rushing to the scene of the strike.
The strike in Dahiyeh, just kilometers from downtown Beirut, hit during rush hour, as people were leaving work and students headed home from school.
The escalation came as the region awaited the revenge promised by the militant group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, for this week’s mass bombing attack on pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members.
Israel's rare strike on the Beirut suburbs came after Hezbollah pounded Israel with 140 rockets, which the Israeli military said came in three waves targeting sites along the ravaged border with Lebanon.
Following the attacks, the Israeli military said that it had struck areas across southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, but didn’t provide details of damage.
Hezbollah said that its attacks had targeted several sites along the border with Katyusha rockets, including multiple air defense bases as well as the headquarters of an Israeli armored brigade they said they’d struck for the first time.
The Israeli military said that 120 missiles were launched at areas of the Golan Heights, Safed and the Upper Galilee, some of which were intercepted. Fire crews were working to extinguish blazes caused by pieces of debris that fell to the ground in several areas, the military said.
The military didn’t say whether any missiles had hit targets or caused any casualties.
Another 20 missiles were shot at the areas of Meron and Netua, and most fell in open areas, the military said, adding that no injuries were reported.
Hezbollah said that the rockets were in retaliation for Israeli strikes on villages and homes in southern Lebanon, not two days of attacks widely blamed on Israel that set off explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.
On Thursday, Israel said its military had struck “hundreds of rocket launcher barrels” in southern Lebanon, saying that they “were ready to be used in the immediate future to fire toward Israeli territory.”
The army also ordered residents in parts of the Golan Heights and northern Israel to avoid public gatherings, minimize movements and stay close to shelters in anticipation of the rocket fire that eventually came Friday.
Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily fire since Oct. 8, a day after the Israel-Hamas war’s opening salvo, but Friday’s rocket barrages were heavier than normal.
Nasrallah on Thursday vowed to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, which he described as a “severe blow.”
At least 20 were killed in the attacks and thousands were wounded when pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The sophisticated attacks have heightened fears that the cross-border exchanges of fire will escalate into all-out war. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the attacks.
In recent days, Israel has moved a powerful fighting force up to the northern border, officials have escalated their rhetoric, and the country’s security Cabinet has designated the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents to their homes in northern Israel an official war goal.
Fighting in Gaza has slowed, but casualties continue to rise.
Overnight, Palestinian authorities said that 15 people were killed in multiple Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.
Those included six people, including an unknown number of children, in an airstrike early Friday morning in Gaza City that hit a family home, Gaza’s Civil Defense said. Another person was killed in Gaza City when a strike hit a group of people on a street.
Israel maintains that it only targets militants, and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas. The military, which rarely comments on individual strikes, had no immediate comment.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says that more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between fighters and civilians in its count, but says a little over half of those killed were women and children.
Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
More than 95,000 people have also been wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said.
The war has caused vast destruction and displaced about 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.
A woman checks the scene of a missile strike from her damaged house in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Rescuers carry a body at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Ambulances arrive at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
People stand on top of a damaged car at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People and rescuers gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People gather near a damaged building at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from Lebanon, in northern Israel, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
