The San Diego Padres new City Connect jerseys looked great on the field. The result on the Petco Park scoreboard looked even better. The Friars donned their new Dia de los Muertos uniforms for the first time on Friday night and did the same thing they did on Thursday night, walking off the Colora do Rockies. Less than 24 hours after Xander Bogaerts hit a 12th inning grand slam, Gavin Sheets hit a 3-run blast in the 9th to give the Friars a 5-2 win and sent a jolt of elect4ricity through yet another sellout crowd of 42,454 in San Diego’s jewel of a downtown ballpark. Of course, a lot happened leading up to that memorable moment. Walker Buehler either really loves the new uniforms or he is figuring things out. The righty made his best start as a Padre, tossing 6.0 innings of shutout ball. Buehler allowed three hits, struck out four, didn’t walk a soul, and did it all in a tidy 67 pitches to earn his first San Diego win. Gavin Sheets made a little history in the 5th inning, hitting the first home run in the Dia de los Muertos-themed jerseys. Sheets unloaded on a Tomoyuki Sugano cutter, ripping it 416 feet into the right-centerfield seats for his first dinger of the season to put the Padres on top 1-0. Just two batters later, catcher Luis Campusano continued his renaissance with 106-MPH missile into the left field bleachers, his first Major League homer since 2024. Campy also doubled and has suddenly turned into one of San Diego’s most consistent offensive threats. Campusano has five extra-base hits in his last five games. After Buehler’s departure the Padres bullpen went to work. Kyle Hart handled a scoreless 7th inning but Adrian Morejon ran into trouble in the 8th. Morejon wasn’t able to get out of the inning, giving up two runs on four hits. After allowing just 17 earned runs all of last season the All-Star lefty has coughed up eight in his last five outings. With two runners on and two outs he was replaced by Jason Adam, who was activated from the injured list before the game (fellow reliever Jeremiah Estrada was placed in the IL with right elbow tendonitis). Adam has been out since last September when he tore a quadriceps tendon fielding a comebacker. He got Ezequiel Tovar to ground out to end the inning and keep it a 2-2 game. In the 9th inning Mason Miller kept doing absurd things on the mound. Working in his third straight game, Miller struck out the side AGAIN, with two of the punchouts coming on 103-MPH fastballs. Jackson Merrill led off the bottom of the inning with an opposite field single and Manny Machado walked. Merrill advanced to 3rd on a Bogaerts sacrifice fly, setting up Sheets to play the hero. The Padres can win the four-game series on Saturday night with former Rockies All-Star German Marquez on the mound against Coloreado righty Ryan Feltner. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less