PHOENIX (AP) — Jose Iglesias followed Ryan O'Hearn's tying homer with a run-scoring single in the ninth inning and the San Diego Padres rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 on Wednesday night.
San Diego scored five runs in the 11th inning to beat the Diamondbacks 10-5 on Tuesday night and staged another late rally.
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San Diego Padres pitcher Nestor Cortes throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Anthony DeSclafani throws against the San Diego Padres in the first inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts celebrates with Jake Cronenworth (9) after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
With Arizona leading 2-1, O'Hearn led off the ninth with a tying homer off Kyle Backus (0-2), his first off a left-hander this season. Xander Bogaerts, who hit a solo homer in the seventh, followed with a double and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt.
Iglesias lined a single to right and Mason Miller worked around a walk in the the ninth for his 21st save. Adrian Morejon (9-4) allowed a hit in two innings for the Padres, who have won nine of 11.
Corbin Carroll homered for Arizona.
Padres starter Nestor Cortes had a shaky start in his first game since being traded from Milwaukee.
Carroll hit his 23rd homer over the pool deck in right-center in the first inning and Cortes hit consecutive batters to load the bases in the second. Alek Thomas put Arizona up 2-0 with a sacrifice fly.
Cortes allowed two runs on three hits in 4 2/3 innings, with three strikeouts and three walks.
Arizona third baseman Blaze Alexander snared Jackson Merrill's squibber off the base and dove to get a force out on third with two on and one out in the eighth. Freddy Fermin was initially ruled safe, but the play was overturn upon review.
Arizona starter Anthony DeSclafani allowed three hits and struck out four in 4 1/3 scoreless innings
San Diego has yet to name a starter for Friday's opener of a three-game series against Boston. Arizona has a day off before RHP Zac Gallen (8-12, 5.48) pitches the opener of a three-game series against the Athletics on Friday.
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San Diego Padres pitcher Nestor Cortes throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Anthony DeSclafani throws against the San Diego Padres in the first inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts celebrates with Jake Cronenworth (9) after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was at the White House on Thursday discussing her country's future with President Donald Trump even after he publicly dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. military raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump has raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in Venezuela. His administration has signaled its willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and, along with others in the deposed leader’s inner circle, remains in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.
In endorsing Rodríguez so far, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela and sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key administration voices like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was expecting a positive discussion during the lunchtime meeting and called Machado “a remarkable and brave voice” for the people of Venezuela.
The White House said Machado sought the face-to-face meeting without setting expectations for what would occur. Her party is widely believed to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro. Machado previously offered to share with Trump the Nobel Peace Prize she won last year, an honor he has coveted.
Leavitt said Trump is committed to seeing Venezuela hold elections “one day,” but wouldn’t say when that might happen.
Machado plans to have a meeting at the Senate later Thursday. Trump has called her “a nice woman” while indicating they might not touch on major issues in their talks Thursday.
Her Washington swing began after U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela. It is part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.
The White House says Venezuela has been fully cooperating with the Trump administration since Maduro’s ouster.
Rodríguez, the acting president, herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move thought to have been made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.
Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump said during an Oval Office bill signing. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
Even before indicating the willingness to work with Venezuela's interim government, Trump was quick to snub Machado. Just hours after Maduro's capture, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country.”
Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump wanted to win himself. She has since thanked Trump. Her offer to share the peace prize with him was rejected by the Nobel Institute.
Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.
Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela, and Janetsky from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)
