SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning and Martín Pérez pitched six strong innings in his debut for the San Diego Padres, who beat Colorado 3-2 on Saturday night to snap a five-game losing streak to the last-place Rockies.
The Padres have won 10 of 13 since the All-Star break. They followed up a two-game home sweep of the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers by losing 5-2 to the Rockies on Friday night.
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San Diego Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar, left, Jackson Merrill, center, and Bryce Johnson, right, celebrate after they defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Manny Machado celebrates after hitting a double during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Tanner Scott delivers during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Colorado Rockies' Jacob Stallings (25) is congratulated by Warren Schaeffer (34) after hitting a solo home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Manny Machado (13) is congratulated after scoring during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts hits a single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Martin Perez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Tanner Gordon delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Martin Perez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts hits an RBI single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
After being held to one run and one hit in six innings by rookie Tanner Gordon, the Padres broke through against reliever Peter Lambert (2-5) in the seventh.
Jake Cronenworth hit a leadoff single, Manny Machado doubled and Bogaerts singled to left to give the Padres a 2-1 lead. Rookie Jackson Merrill followed with a sacrifice fly.
“It started off the same. The guy was throwing good, a young guy, and got to the bullpen and got some guys on base,” Bogaerts said. “We started a nice rally once we got to the bullpen.”
Rockies pinch hitter Jacob Stallings homered with one out in the eighth off All-Star Tanner Scott, who was making his Padres debut after being obtained from Miami on Tuesday. That snapped Scott's scoreless streak of 17 2/3 innings since June 17.
Pérez held the Rockies to one run and three hits, struck out seven and walked none. His only big mistake was allowing Hunter Goodman's homer to left-center with one out in the third.
“It was awesome to go out there and do my job and we scored runs and we won the game,” Pérez said. “That's why I'm here. I'm here to help the team win.
“The support I have from my teammates is awesome,” he added. “It makes me feel comfortable and makes me feel like I was here before. That's really good and mentally I'm good. I think this is just the start. We've got to keep doing our things and we're going to have a good future for the last two months.”
It was the first time this season the Padres started a left-hander, in their 112th game.
“Loved his pace, his control,” manager Mike Shildt said. "Good rhythm what he was doing. Everything was for quality strikes.
“It took a second to get adjusted to seeing a left-hander start a game,” Shildt added. “He was fantastic and very efficient.”
The game took just 1 hour, 59 minutes.
“We were talking about the fifth or sixth, like we went back in time for a second,” Shildt said. “We had guys that were really working quick, hitting their spots.”
Jason Adam (5-2) pitched the seventh for the win and Robert Suarez pitched the ninth for his 24th save.
Gordon, a 26-year-old rookie making his fourth start, was perfect through four innings. The Padres finally got baserunners when Gordon walked Machado leading off the fifth and allowed a single to Bogaerts. Merrill had a sacrifice bunt and David Peralta's groundout brought in Machado to tie it at 1.
Gordon came in at 0-3 with an 8.80 ERA. He made his big league debut July 7 against Kansas City at Coors Field. He was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque earlier in the day.
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Rockies: DH Charlie Blackmon wasn't in the starting lineup a night after suffering a bruised left eye when an errant throw by Padres second baseman Xander Bogaerts hit his left wrist and face. He said he felt fine.
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Rockies RHP Cal Quantrill (7-7, 4.50 ERA) and Padres RHP Matt Waldron (6-9, 3.89 ERA) are scheduled to start Sunday's series finale. Quantrill was drafted by the Padres in 2016 and made his big league debut in 2019 before being sent to Cleveland in 2020 in the Mike Clevinger deal.
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San Diego Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar, left, Jackson Merrill, center, and Bryce Johnson, right, celebrate after they defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Manny Machado celebrates after hitting a double during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Tanner Scott delivers during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Colorado Rockies' Jacob Stallings (25) is congratulated by Warren Schaeffer (34) after hitting a solo home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Manny Machado (13) is congratulated after scoring during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts hits a single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Martin Perez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Tanner Gordon delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Martin Perez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego Padres' Xander Bogaerts hits an RBI single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks careened through a manic Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to crank his tariffs higher, despite a stunning display showing how dearly Wall Street wants him to do the opposite.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% at the end of a day full of heart-racing reversals as battered financial markets try to figure out what Trump’s ultimate goal is for his trade war. If it’s to get other countries to agree to trade deals, he could lower his tariffs and avoid a possible recession. But if it’s to remake the economy and stick with tariffs for the long haul, stock prices may need to fall further.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 349 points, or 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite edged up by 0.1%.
All three indexes started the day sharply lower, and the Dow plunged as many as 1,700 points following even worse losses elsewhere in the world. But it suddenly surged to a gain of nearly 900 points in the late morning. The S&P 500, meanwhile, went from a loss of 4.7% to a leap of 3.4%, which would have been its biggest jump in years.
The sudden rise followed a false rumor that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his tariffs, one that a White House account on X quickly labeled as “fake news.” That a rumor could move trillions of dollars’ worth of investments shows how much investors are hoping to see signs that Trump may let up on tariffs.
Stocks quickly turned back down, and shortly afterward, Trump dug in further and said he may raise tariffs more against China after the world’s second-largest economy retaliated last week with its own set of tariffs on U.S. products.
It’s a slap in the face to Wall Street because it suggests Trump may not care how much pain he inflicts on the market. Many professional investors had long thought that a president who used to crow about records reached under his watch would pull back on policies if they sent the Dow reeling.
On Sunday Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he wasn’t concerned about a sell-off and that “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”
Trump has given several reasons for his stiff tariffs, including to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, which is a process that could take years. Trump on Sunday said he wanted to bring down the numbers for how much more the United States imports from other countries versus how much it sends to them.
Indexes nevertheless did keep swinging between losses and gains Monday after Trump’s latest tariff threat, in part because hope still remains in markets that negotiations may still come.
“We’re not calling the all-clear at all, but when you have this type of volatility in the market, of course you’re going to have back and forth” in markets not just day to day but also hour to hour, said Nate Thooft, a senior portfolio manager at Manulife Investment Management.
“We’re all waiting for the next bit of information,” he said. “Literally a Truth Social tweet or an announcement of some sort about real negotiations could dramatically move this market. This is the world we live in right now.”
All that seemed certain Monday was the financial pain hammering investments around the world for a third day after Trump announced tariffs in his “Liberation Day.”
Stocks in Hong Kong plunged 13.2% for their worst day since 1997. A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude oil dipped below $60 during the morning for the first time since 2021, hurt by worries that a global economy weakened by trade barriers will burn less fuel. Bitcoin sank below $79,000, down from its record above $100,000 set in January, after holding steadier than other markets last week.
Trump’s tariffs are an attack on the globalization that’s remade the world’s economy, which helped bring down prices for products on the shelves of U.S. stores but also caused production jobs to leave for other countries.
It also adds pressure on the Federal Reserve. Investors have become nearly conditioned to expect the central bank to swoop in as a hero by slashing interest rates to protect the economy during every downturn. But the Fed may have less freedom to act this time around because inflation remains higher than the Fed would like. And while lower interest rates can goose the economy, they can also put upward pressure on inflation.
“The recent tariffs will likely increase inflation and are causing many to consider a greater probability of a recession,” JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, one of the most influential executives on Wall Street, wrote in his annual letter to shareholders Monday. “Whether or not the menu of tariffs causes a recession remains in question, but it will slow down growth.”
In the bond market, Treasury yields rallied to recover some of their sharp drops from earlier weeks. Some of the big move may have been because of reduced expectations for cuts to interest rates by the Fed. Some analysts also said it could be due to investors outside of the United States wanting to pare their U.S. investments.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to 4.20% from 4.01% late Friday.
Earlier in the day, the S&P 500 briefly fell more than 20% below its record set less than two months ago. If it finishes a day below that bar, it would be a big enough drop that Wall Street has a name for it. A “bear market” signifies a downturn that’s moved beyond a run-of-the-mill 10% drop, which happens every year or so, and has graduated into something more vicious.
The S&P 500, which sits at the heart of many investors’ 401(k) accounts, is coming off its worst week since COVID began crashing the global economy in March 2020.
All told, the index fell 11.83 points Monday to 5,062.25. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 349.26 to 37,965.60, and the Nasdaq composite added 15.48 to 15,603.26.
Kurtenbach reported from Bangkok. McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany. Associated Press writers Ayaka McGill, Paul Harloff, Matt Ott and Jiang Junzhe also contributed.
An electronic display shows financial information on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Chris Lagana works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Traders work on the options floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Currency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Currency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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