Gurriel's pinch-hit RBI single lifts Padres to 1-0 win over Braves

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Yuli Gurriel singled with two outs in the seventh inning to score Jake Cronenworth, who was aboard on an unusual ground-rule double, and the San Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 on Saturday to take their third straight win in the four-game series.

Cronenworth's liner hit reliever Aaron Bummer (0-1) on the bottom of his right foot and caromed into the Braves' dugout for a ground-rule double. Bummer intentionally walked Xander Bogaerts and made way for Daysbel Hernández, who allowed Gurriel's hit to left field that brought in Cronenworth.

Cronenworth hit a go-ahead homer in Friday night's 4-3 win.

This series is a rematch of last season’s wild-card playoff won by the Padres in a two-game sweep.

Braves starter Spencer Schwellenbach allowed one hit in six shutout innings while striking out four and walking one.

San Diego's Randy Vásquez permitted four hits in six shutout innings.

Wandy Peralta (1-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings for the win. Adrian Morejon worked the ninth for his first save.

Padres third baseman Manny Machado left the game with right calf tightness following an at-bat in the fourth inning. He appeared to hurt himself while swinging at a pitch, then fouled off a pitch and hobbled out of the batter’s box. He was checked by a trainer and finished the at-bat, flying out to right field. He was replaced by Jose Iglesias in the top of the fifth.

With runners on first and second and one out in the fourth, the Padres turned an inning-ending 4-5-6 double play. Second baseman Cronenworth fielded Michael Harris II's blooper and threw to Machado, who tagged Marcell Ozuna and threw to shortstop Bogaerts to force Ozzie Albies at second.

Braves rookie Drake Baldwin got his first hit, an opposite-field single to left in the second inning, after going 0 for 7 in the first two games.

Braves RHP AJ Smith-Shawver and Padres RHP Nick Pivetta are scheduled to start the series finale Sunday night.

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San Diego Padres' Manny Machado holds his leg after an injury while batting during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves Saturday, March 29, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. can't make the catch at the wall off a hit for a double by Atlanta Braves' Matt Olson during the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, March 29, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. can't make the catch at the wall off a hit for a double by Atlanta Braves' Matt Olson during the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, March 29, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.

Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products.

Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, “BUT NOT ANYMORE!”

“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO!” Trump said in the post as he spent the weekend at his home in southern Florida. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

The Cuban government said 32 of its military personnel were killed during the American operation last weekend that captured Maduro. The personnel from Cuba’s two main security agencies were in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, as part of an agreement between Cuba and Venezuela.

“Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,” Trump said Sunday. “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will.”

Trump also responded to another account’s social media post predicting that his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will be president of Cuba: “Sounds good to me!” Trump said.

Trump and top administration officials have taken an increasingly aggressive tone toward Cuba, which had been kept economically afloat by Venezuela. Long before Maduro's capture, severe blackouts were sidelining life in Cuba, where people endured long lines at gas stations and supermarkets amid the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Trump has said previously that the Cuban economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, would slide further with the ouster of Maduro.

“It’s going down,” Trump said of Cuba. “It’s going down for the count.”

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)