DENVER (AP) — Gavin Sheets hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the ninth inning and Miguel Andujar had three RBIs as the San Diego Padres rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-8 on Thursday.
The Padres trailed 8-5 entering the ninth inning before Xander Bogaerts and Andujar hit RBI singles, cutting the deficit to a run. Then, with runners on first and third, Sheets launched a slider from Victor Vodnik 379 feet over the right field wall for his third homer of the season. The game-winning swing came on Sheets’ 30th birthday.
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Colorado Rockies' Mickey Moniak gestures as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run off San Diego Padres starting pitcher Matt Waldron in the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres' Ramón Laureano follows the flight of his triple off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Zach Agnos in the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Adrian Morejon works against the Colorado Rockies in the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres first baseman Gavin Sheets warms up before a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
It was the second blown save of the season for Vodnik (0-2).
San Diego's Mason Miller earned his MLB-leading ninth save of the season and extended his scoreless streak to 33 ⅔ innings. That ties Cla Meredith for the longest run in Padres franchise history. The 27-year-old right-hander is tied for the eighth-longest scoreless streak by a reliever in the Expansion Era (since 1961).
Bogaerts and Ramón Laureano had two RBIs apiece for San Diego, which improved to 15-3 in its past 18 games after a 2-5 start to the season. Bogaerts hit his fourth homer of the season and improved his career batting average against the Rockies to .366.
Ron Marinaccio (1-0) earned the win for the Padres after allowing one run in two innings of relief.
Mickey Moniak matched a career high with four hits, including his team-leading seventh and eighth home runs of the season, for the Rockies. It was Moniak’s fifth career multi-homer game and third of the season, two of which have come against the Padres.
It was Colorado’s eighth loss in its past nine games against San Diego.
The Padres have not named a starter against Arizona RHP Zac Gallen (1-1, 3.51 ERA) for the teams' game in Mexico City on Saturday.
Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen (1-2, 7.48) will face RHP Freddy Peralta (1-2, 4.05) and the host New York Mets on Friday.
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Colorado Rockies' Mickey Moniak gestures as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run off San Diego Padres starting pitcher Matt Waldron in the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres' Ramón Laureano follows the flight of his triple off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Zach Agnos in the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Adrian Morejon works against the Colorado Rockies in the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Diego Padres first baseman Gavin Sheets warms up before a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
ATLANTA (AP) — Three professors at Atlanta's Emory University filed a lawsuit Thursday over their arrests during a 2024 campus protest over the Israel-Hamas war, saying the university broke its own free speech policies when it called in police and state troopers to aggressively disband the protest, making 28 arrests.
“The judicial system would find that Emory failed to protect its students, to protect its staff, to protect the educational mission of the university,” said philosophy Professor Noelle McAfee, one of the plaintiffs. “So this isn’t just about people’s individual rights. It’s our educational mission to train people in free and critical inquiry, to be able to learn how to engage with others, to be fearless.”
Laura Diamond, a spokesperson for Emory, said the university believes “this lawsuit is without merit.”
“Emory acts appropriately and responsibly to keep our community safe from threats of harm,” Diamond said in a statement. “We regret this issue is being litigated but we have confidence in the legal process.”
The suit is just one example of how the nationwide wave of protests continues to reverberate on elite campuses. There are many examples of lawsuits against universities by students and faculty who say they were discriminated against because of the protests. But the Emory suit is unusual. McAfee, English and indigenous studies Professor Emilio Del Valle-Escalante and economics Professor Caroline Fohlin all remain tenured faculty members and none were convicted of any charges.
The civil lawsuit in DeKalb County State Court demands that the private university repay money the three spent defending themselves against misdemeanor charges that were later dismissed, along with punitive damages. McAfee said she's suing her employer “to try to get them to be accountable and to change.”
All three say they were observers on April 25, 2024, when some students and others set up tents on the university's main quad to protest the war. They say Emory broke its own policies by calling in Atlanta police and Georgia state troopers without seeking alternatives.
McAfee was charged with disorderly conduct after she said she yelled “Stop!” at an officer roughly arresting a protester. Del Valle-Escalante said he was trying to help an older woman when he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Fohlin said that when she protested against officers pinning a protester to the ground, she herself was thrown face-first to the ground and arrested, suffering a concussion and a spine injury. Fohlin was charged with misdemeanor battery of an officer.
Emory claimed that day that those arrested were outsiders who trespassed on school property. But 20 of the 28 people arrested were affiliated with the university. The professors said that after their arrests, they were targeted by threats and harassment, part of a pushback by conservatives who said universities were failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism and allowing lawlessness.
Nationwide, advocates say there is a “Palestine exception” in which universities are willing to curb pro-Palestinian speech and protest. Palestine Legal, a legal aid group supporting such speech, said Tuesday that it received 300% more legal requests in 2025 than its annual average before 2023, mostly from college students and faculty.
McAfee served as president of the Emory University Senate after her arrest. The body makes policy recommendations and had helped draft the university’s open expression policy. She said she asked then-President Gregory Fenves in fall 2024 why Emory police weren’t dropping the charges against her and others. McAfee said Fenves told her that he wanted “to see justice.” The open expression policy was revised after 2024 to clearly prohibit tents, camping, occupations of university buildings and demonstrations between midnight and 7 a.m.
Whatever the policy, McAfee said, students are afraid to protest at Emory, saying the university has turned its back on what Atlanta Civil Rights icon John Lewis called “good trouble.”
“Students know right now that any trouble is not going to be good trouble at Emory, that they could get arrested," she said. ”So students are afraid."
Noelle McAfee, an Emory University professor, talks about her lawsuit against the school over her 2024 arrest at a protest over the Israel-Hamas war on Thursday, April 23, 2026, on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
FILE - Protesters are cuffed after being detained on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on April 25, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Noelle McAfee, an Emory University professor, talks about her lawsuit against the school over her 2024 arrest at a protest over the Israel-Hamas war on Thursday, April 23, 2026, on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
