PHILADELPHIA — The Padres have had plenty of losses lately.
None this entire season had been like what happened in a hurry at the end of Tuesday night’s game.
With their perfect-to-date closer on the mound, the rest of the Padres could only watch as the Phillies strung together four hits and scored twice off Robert Suarez for a 4-3 walk-off victory.
“A lot of action in a short period of time,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “It was quick and slow at the same time.”
Suarez’s first blown save in 18 chances doomed the Padres to their fifth consecutive loss.
“There wasn’t anything too different,” Suarez said of what went wrong for him Tuesday. “Those are things that happen. … It happened, and we’re on to tomorrow.”
Suarez, who had gotten the final out of the eighth inning after Wandy Peralta surrendered a solo homer to Kyle Schwarber, threw just seven pitches and did not record an out in the ninth while allowing successive singles to Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm and Bryson Stott and then a double by Nick Castellanos.
Stott’s single tied the game, and Castellanos’ double, which fell just fair inside the right field line, drove in Bohm and sent the Padres to their ninth consecutive road loss.
They are now a loss in Wednesday’s series finale from their first winless road trip of six games or longer since 2009.
The Padres trailed 1-0 after Castellanos doubled and Brandon Marsh singled in the fourth inning, and they did not have a hit against Phillies starter Aaron Nola until Donovan Solano’s one-out single in the fifth inning.
They took the lead in the sixth when Luis Campusano followed David Peralta’s lead-off walk with a home run over the center field wall. Tyler Wade followed that with a single, moved to second on a fly ball and scored on Profar’s single.
“It’s hard to articulate,” Shildt said. “It clearly hurts. Scratch and clawed, did everything we possibly could to win the game and did a lot of good things right and just the end wasn’t good enough.”