SAN DIEGO (AP) — Masyn Winn hit a tiebreaking two-run double, and the St. Louis Cardinals stopped San Diego's six-game win streak with an 8-5 victory over the Padres on Saturday night.
St. Louis had lost four in a row. The Cardinals trailed 4-0 before scoring eight unanswered runs.
Pedro Pagés hit a three-run homer for St. Louis, and Iván Herrera had three hits. Michael McGreevy (3-2) allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings.
Jackson Merrill hit a solo drive for San Diego, and Freddy Fermin drove in two runs. Ramón Laureano had a run-scoring triple.
Merrill's eighth homer made it 4-0 in the third. But the Cardinals rallied in the fourth. Nolan Gorman singled home Willson Contreras, and Pagés connected against Randy Vásquez for his seventh homer.
Jeremiah Estrada replaced Vásquez (3-5) after Iván Herrera hit a leadoff single in the fifth. With two down and runners on first and second, Winn made it 6-4 with a double to left.
Alec Burleson added an RBI single in the ninth against Yuki Matsui, and Contreras followed with a sacrifice fly.
JoJo Romero got four outs for his first save of the season. Fermin hit an RBI single in the ninth, but Fernando Tatis Jr. flied to right for the final out of the game.
San Diego's Luis Arraez doubled in the first to extend the majors' longest active hitting streak to 15 games.
Pagés’ tying drive traveled 422 feet.
Merrill’s homer was San Diego’s 93rd — second fewest in the NL.
Cardinals right-hander Andre Pallante (6-7, 4.62 ERA) starts on Sunday opposite Padres right-hander Dylan Cease (3-10, 4.79 ERA).
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San Diego Padres relief pitcher Yuki Matsui works against a St. Louis Cardinals batter during the ninth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Brendan Donovan, right, celebrates with teammate shortstop Masyn Winn after the Cardinals defeated the San Diego Padres 8-5 in a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the operator of the mid-Atlantic power grid to take urgent steps to boost energy supply and curb price hikes, holding a Friday event aimed at addressing a rising concern among voters about the enormous amount of power used for artificial intelligence ahead of elections later this year.
The White House said its National Energy Dominance Council and the governors of several states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, want to try to compel PJM Interconnection to hold a power auction for tech companies to bid on contracts to build new power plants,
The Trump administration and governors will sign a statement of principles toward that end Friday. The plan was first reported by Bloomberg.
“Ensuring the American people have reliable and affordable electricity is one of President Trump’s top priorities, and this would deliver much-needed, long-term relief to the mid-Atlantic region," said Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to be at the White House, a person familiar with Shapiro’s plans said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement. Shapiro, a Democrat, made his participation in Friday’s event contingent on including a provision to extend a limit on wholesale electricity price increases for the region’s consumers, the person said.
But the operator of the grid won't be there. “PJM was not invited. Therefore we would not attend,” said spokesperson Jeff Shields.
It was not immediately clear whether President Donald Trump would attend the event, which was not listed on his public schedule.
Trump and the governors are under pressure to insulate consumers and businesses alike from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers. Meanwhile, more Americans are falling behind on their electricity bills.
Consumer advocates say ratepayers in the mid-Atlantic electricity grid — which encompasses all or parts of 13 states stretching from New Jersey to Illinois, as well as Washington, D.C. — are already paying billions of dollars in higher bills to underwrite the cost to supply power to data centers, some of them built, some not.
However, they also say that the billions of dollars that consumers are paying isn’t resulting in the construction of new power plants necessary to meet the rising demand.
Pivotal contests in November will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who’s footing the bill for the data centers that underpin the explosion in demand for artificial intelligence. In parts of the country, data centers are coming online faster than power plants can be built and connected to the grid.
Electricity costs were a key issue in last year's elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state’s utility regulatory commission. Voters in New Jersey, Virginia, California and New York City all cited economic concerns as the top issue, as Democrats and Republicans gird for a debate over affordability in the intensifying midterm battle to control Congress.
Gas and electric utilities sought or won rate increases of more that $34 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, consumer advocacy organization PowerLines reported. That was more than double the same period a year earlier.
Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is seen Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, East of Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
