Padres Streak Ends At Ten

The Padres tried to continue their ten game winning streak, but a great individual effort from the Diamondbacks Max Scherzer put them down early and this time they could not quite pull out the comeback.Scherzer did it with his arm, striking out five of the first six Padres he faced and ten overall. He did it with his bat, driving in two runs. He kept the Padre offense in check, scattering six hits. Kevin Correia of the Pads matched him early and the game was scoreless through four. But then Correia got touched up and the D-Backs built a six run lead.But the way this team has been playing, it takes an almost heroic effort to keep them down. And when the Diamondbacks hero of the night ran out of gas, the Friars exploded.Going into the eighth down 6-0, San Diego chased Scherzer with a couple of runs, including a Chris Burke solo home run (his first of the year) to lead off the inning. By the time the smoke cleared, the resurgent Friars had cut the deficit to 6-4, even calling upon flu bug-bitten Adrian Gonzalez to stagger up and drive in a run with a sacrifice fly.The Padres made the Arizona fans extremely nervous, getting the bases loaded again in the ninth, but a double play unloaded them while only plating a single run and then D-Back center fielder Chris Young raced back to the wall in front of the swimming pool to snag a Kevin Kouzmanoff drive that is gone in most ballparks and the streak was over.