SAN DIEGO (AP) — Martín Maldonado hit a tying home run in the fifth off San Diego native Trevor Williams and Jose Iglesias brought in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded groundout in the sixth as the Padres beat the Washington Nationals 4-3 on Tuesday night.
The bottom four batters in the Padres' order each drove in a run.
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Washington Nationals' CJ Abrams (5) jokes with San Diego Padres third base Manny Machado during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Washington Nationals' Daylen Lile, right, slides into home plate, scoring off a sacrifice bunt by Jacob Young as San Diego Padres catcher Martín Maldonado is late with the tag during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres pitcher Ryan Bergert, center, reacts after getting hit by a line drive from Washington Nationals' Jacob Young during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres' Martín Maldonado celebrates after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Padres rookie right-hander Ryan Bergert was forced out in the fourth after being hit on his pitching elbow by a 103-mph line drive by Jacob Young. Bergert bent over for a minute with his arm pulled in tight and then popped up and grabbed the ball, which landed near the rubber. He threw to first but Young beat it out for an infield single.
After being checked by a trainer, Bergert came out. He was replaced by Adrian Morejon. Young eventually scored on James Wood’s grounder to give the Nationals a 3-0 lead.
Wood, a former Padres' prospect, also drew a bases-loaded walk in the second.
The Padres began their comeback when they scored twice off Williams in the fourth, on Xander Bogaerts' groundout and Jake Cronenworth's RBI double.
Maldonado, the No. 9 hitter, tied it with a homer to left-center, his fourth.
Williams was chased after walking the first two batters in the sixth and Cole Henry came on and walked the bases loaded. But the Padres got only one run, on Iglesias' groundout.
Williams (3-9) allowed four runs and four hits in seven innings, with three walks and one strikeout.
Jason Adam (6-3) got the win and Robert Suarez pitched the ninth for his 22nd save, tied for the most in the majors.
Suarez struck out Wood to end it. Wood had three hits and four RBIs in Washington's 10-6 win Monday night.
Morejon has a 1.15 ERA in the 17 career relief outings he's been asked to get six-plus outs. That includes an active 18-inning scoreless innings streak across the seven such outings since Oct. 3, 2022.
Nationals LHP MacKenzie Gore (3-7, 3.19 ERA) and Padres RHP Nick Pivetta (7-2, 3.64) are scheduled to start the series finale Wednesday. Gore was one of six players acquired from San Diego for Juan Soto on Aug. 2, 2022.
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Washington Nationals' CJ Abrams (5) jokes with San Diego Padres third base Manny Machado during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Washington Nationals' Daylen Lile, right, slides into home plate, scoring off a sacrifice bunt by Jacob Young as San Diego Padres catcher Martín Maldonado is late with the tag during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres pitcher Ryan Bergert, center, reacts after getting hit by a line drive from Washington Nationals' Jacob Young during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres' Martín Maldonado celebrates after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.
The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.
The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.
The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.
The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”
The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.
Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.
The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.
On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.
Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.
“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”
Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.
Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.
“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.
Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
