MILWAUKEE — The Padres came back twice, taking the lead the first time and tying the game the second.
Their ailing superstar came through amid the loudest boos he hears anywhere.
The aggressiveness that has earned them so many runs perhaps cost them one. They gave a run away with an error. Their stellar bullpen faltered.
They played extra innings for a second straight game.
The team that often wins in exciting fashion, lost a wild one Thursday.
Jackie Bradley Jr.’s walk-off single against Miguel Díaz scored Omar Narvaez from third base to give the Brewers a 6-5 victory in 10 innings at American Family Field.
That sent the Padres on their way with a split a four-game series at the start of a trip that now takes them to Houston for three games before they return to the Midwest for three against the Cubs next week.
A game that featured two baserunners in the first three innings and no runs until the fifth got wild after both starting pitchers departed — the Padres’ Ryan Weathers after four innings and the Brewers’ Adrian Houser after five.
The Brewers scored two runs off Nabil Crismatt in the fifth.
One run was earned, and the other was a product of a play on which Fernando Tatis Jr. committed his major league-leading 13th and 14th errors.
After Daniel Robertson doubled with one out, Crismatt retired pinch-hitter Daniel Vogelbach on a fly ball. En route to walking Lorenzo Cain, Crismatt also bounced a pitch that allowed Daniel Robertson to go to third. Willy Adames then pulled a ball down the third-base line that appeared to hit barely inside fair territory before caroming foul as it passed the bag and was snagged by a diving Ha-seong Kim.
Robertson scored on the play, but Kim stopping the ball kept Cain at second base.
Avisail Garcia followed with a grounder between Kim at third and Tatis at shortstop. Kim dived, perhaps blocking Tatis’ view for a second as he went to make a backhanded play. The ball bounced off his glove and rolled into left field as Cain raced home. Tatis chucked a throw wildly right of the plate, and runners ended up at second and third before Manny Piña flied out to center field to end the inning.
The Padres took a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning on doubles by Tommy Pham and Fernando Tatis Jr. and Eric Hosmer’s two-run homer and held that lead through that inning.
They had yet to lose any of the 24 games in which they led after the sixth.
Kolten Wong began the bottom of the seventh against Padres reliever Craig Stammen by lining a single off the glove of a diving Jake Cronenworth. Stammen walked Christian Yelich before striking out Lorenzo Cain. Wong and Yelich both stole on the final pitch to Cain, but that wouldn’t matter as Willy Adames launched a 2-0 curve ball over the wall in left-center field to make it 5-3.
The Padres tied the game in the eighth against Devin Williams.
Jurickson Profar led off with a walk and stole second. After Cronenworth flied out to left, Tatis sent a flare to left field on which Profar took off immediately and scored as the ball fell just out of the reach of Adames, the shortstop.
Eric Hosmer followed with a single that moved Tatis to third, which brought up Manny Machado to hit for Stammen. It was the second chance for Milwaukeeans to voice their displeasure with Machado, who while with the Dodgers in the 2018 National League Championship Series appeared to kick Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar’s foot while running out a grounder.
Before pinch-hitting Wednesday night, Machado had not played for five games because of a shoulder ailment, was serenaded with boos from the time he walked to the plate until he laced a double that skipped to the wall in right-center. As the ball bounced away from the wall, third base coach Bobby Dickerson waved for Hosmer to keep running home.
Adames cut off the throw from Bradley and threw a strike to the catcher, Piña, who tagged out the sliding Hosmer just before he reached to touch the plate.
Hosmer had a chance to give the Padres another lead when the Brewers intentionally walked Tatis with two outs and Pham on second in the 10th. But Hosmer’s 106.8 mph one-hopper was fielded by Luis Urias, who stepped on third to force out Pham.
Narvaez began the bottom of the 10th at second base, and Keston Hiura bunted him over to start the inning before Díaz, who had pitched a scoreless ninth, got Urias on a fly ball to shallow right field. Bradley then lined an 0-1 change-up off the wall in right field for the winning run.
