![]() ![]() He continued watching from the dugout as the Padres’ star-laden but underachieving lineup experienced catharsis with an opportunistic display in perhaps the most extreme environment in all of professional baseball. He surrendered seven earned runs, his most in a game since 2019, and served up three home runs, matching a career worst. Musgrove went just 3 1/3 innings before manager Bob Melvin pulled him. That's tied for the most players with a HR in a game in MLB history, with: ![]() TEN different players have homered in this game (including Manny Machado twice) “I can’t say I love pitching here,” Musgrove said afterward, “but that was one of the funnest games I’ve ever been a part of.” In a 16-11 demolition derby, Musgrove’s Padres out-swatted Manaea’s Giants, six home runs to five, en route to a somewhat disorienting but nonetheless exhilarating victory. Saturday demonstrated just how formidable that task can be at the highest altitude the major leagues have ever seen. “There’s a lot of excitement for it, but I think we’re both focused on the task at hand,” Musgrove said. ![]() Of course, in the first major-league regular-season game in the Mexican capital, he and Manaea intended to put on a show. Musgrove estimated Friday that about half of the group was traveling from various locales to experience another form of history. Since their offseason adventure, Musgrove and Manaea have maintained a roughly 30-person text chain with the fellow passengers they befriended en route to Antarctica. For the sake of perhaps the most protected environment on Earth, it was a good thing no professional hitters tagged along. With the fastest pitch ever recorded in Antarctica, they did both.Ī small but not irrelevant footnote from their excursion: The polar continent has an average elevation of 8,500 feet. Late last fall, the two men trekked to one of the planet’s most extreme habitats intending to set a world record and raise awareness for the Challenged Athletes Foundation. The novelty of the stage might have made it easy to forget that, not five months ago, Musgrove achieved a different kind of first by flinging an 86 mph four-seam fastball into Manaea’s glove. ![]()
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