Cronenworth gets key hit as Padres rally past Cardinals 7-5 for 3rd straight win

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Cronenworth hit a tiebreaking RBI single in San Diego's two-run seventh inning, and the Padres beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 on Tuesday night for their third consecutive win.

Manny Machado homered for San Diego, and Luis Arraez had three hits. Yuki Matsui (4-2) pitched an inning for the win, and Tanner Scott handled the ninth for his 20th save in 22 chances.

Padres right-hander Dylan Cease threw 96 pitches in 4 1/3 innings on a night when the gametime temperature was announced at 98 degrees. He was charged with four runs and seven hits.

“It was hot, but it wasn't something that was on my mind or anything like that.” Cease said. “I was just out of sync today. I have to figure out the way I was and get back to it.”

Paul Goldschmidt homered for St. Louis in its third loss in four games. Miles Mikolas permitted four runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings.

The Cardinals scored three runs in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. Lars Nootbaar chased Cease with an RBI single before Goldschmidt greeted Bryan Hoeing with a two-run shot to left-center for his 20th homer.

“I felt like our approach was good," Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said about Cease. "We did a lot of good things but that extra push got him off the hook. I felt like several times you could have buried him at one point in that game and created a big enough gap where it's difficult for them to come back. I felt like our inability to come through in that situation was tough.”

The Padres responded in the seventh. Mason McCoy walked and advanced to second on Arraez's single before taking third as part of a double steal. McCoy scampered home on Jurickson Profar's sacrifice fly, and Arraez scored on Cronenworth's hit on the ninth pitch of his at-bat against lefty John King (3-3).

“I trust him,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said of Cronenworth, who bats from the left side. “You know he's going to take a quality at-bat. He wants big moments. So it was either Croney versus a guy that has been out and coming back out versus a guy coming in fresh and (Donovan) Solano.”

Machado led off San Diego’s four-run second with his 22nd homer. It was his ninth homer in his last 27 games.

Jackson Merrill doubled and scored on Luis Campusano’s single. McCoy drove in David Peralta with a groundout, and Arraez singled home Campusano for a 4-2 lead.

“The team's grinding,” Merrill said. “We don't want to lose, and whatever it takes."

The Cardinals had jumped in front with two runs in the first. Masyn Winn scored on a wild pitch from Cease, and Luken Baker added a sacrifice fly.

ROSTER MOVES

The Cardinals recalled right-hander Riley O’Brien from Triple-A Memphis and designated right-hander Shawn Armstrong for assignment. Armstrong went 1-0 with a 2.84 ERA in 11 appearances after being acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay for outfielder Dylan Carlson on July 30.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: OF Fernando Tatis Jr. (right femoral stress reaction) is taking at-bats in simulated games at the club’s complex in Arizona.

Cardinals: OF Michael Siani (strained right oblique) started in center field and went 0 for 3 for Double-A Springfield in the first game of a rehabilitation assignment. ... LHP Steven Matz (lower back strain) threw 65 pitches in a rehab start for Triple-A Memphis, allowing four runs, two earned, in three innings.

UP NEXT

Padres RHP Joe Musgrove (4-4, 4.43 ERA) will face Cardinals RHP Andre Pallante (6-6, 3.84 ERA) on Wednesday night.

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San Diego Padres' Jake Cronenworth heads to first on an RBI single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol walks back from the mound after making a pitching change during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol walks back from the mound after making a pitching change during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' Luken Baker reacts after striking out to end the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

San Diego Padres Tanner Scott and teammate Manny Machado celebrate a 7-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

San Diego Padres pitcher Tanner Scott celebrates with catcher Luis Campusano following a 7-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach residents and visitors can feel it coming in the air tonight — and the rest of the weekend — as “Miami Vice” cast and crew gather to celebrate the iconic television series' 40th anniversary.

The show premiered on NBC on Sept. 16, 1984, and ran for five seasons. The “cocaine cowboy”-era crime drama, featuring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover cops, was revolutionary in its use of pop culture, style and music and spawned a film reboot in 2006. And by filming the show primarily in South Florida, the series helped transform the image of Miami and Miami Beach in a way that would reverberate for decades.

Former cast members, including Edward James Olmos and Michael Madsen, met with fans Friday at the Royal Palm South Beach and were set to return Saturday. Also attending were Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Bruce McGill, Joaquim De Almeida, Bill Smitrovich, Pepe Serna and Ismael East Carlo.

“It was not ‘Hill Street Blues.’ It was not ‘Police Story,’ ” Olmos said on Friday. “It was way different in artistic endeavor on all levels. The creativity, as far as music, writing, production value. The production value was so overwhelming. We spared nothing. I mean, these people were serious, and they spent a lot of time and money for each episode, and it shows.”

Olmos said that the show had a profound effect on introducing Miami to the world and creating an idealized version of South Beach that would later become a reality.

“When we were here, when we started the show in 1984, there was no South Beach,” Olmos said. “There was a South Beach, but it was dilapidated. The buildings were all literally falling into disrepair.”

Years before serious restoration efforts would transform South Beach into a center of fashion, music and tourism, Olmos said productions crews were painting the exteriors of the neighborhood's historic Art Deco buildings themselves to make them look good on camera.

“We would paint the facades and put out tables, and we did what now became the reality of South Beach,” Olmos said.

While most television production was still being done in Los Angeles or New York in the 1980s, Olmos doubts the show would have been as successful if they had tried to fake South Florida in California.

“They could have never shot this anywhere else in the world,” Olmos said. “Look at the show from the very first episode, and as it went on, the beauty of Miami is unprecedented.”

Premiering just a few years after the launch of MTV, “Miami Vice” embraced contemporary style and music. Besides Jan Hammer's original scoring, the producers regularly included songs from popular artists like Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Dire Straits and Foreigner.

Fred Lyle, an associate producer and music coordinator for “Miami Vice,” said the importance of music was evident from the first episode, as “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins plays while Johnson and Thomas cruise the streets of Miami in their Ferrari convertible.

“And that’s when ‘Miami Vice’ became different musically than anything else,” Lyle said. “Music was going over this scene, that scene. One song was helping to stitch the fabric of the narrative together.”

Aside from the show's style, the stories and characters also had substance. Veteran television actor Bruce McGill has played countless cops, coaches and other authority figures over several decades, but he said his guest role as a burnt-out former detective in the second season of “Miami Vice” stands out compared to the straight-laced characters that comprise most of his career.

“It was a very good part that they allowed me to make better, to enhance, to ham it up a little,” McGill said. “And it was very satisfying.”

"Miami Vice" fan Matt Lechliter, 39, traveled all the way to Miami Beach from Oxnard, California, to celebrate the show's anniversary.

“I wasn't alive when it premiered, but it's a part of me,” Lechliter said.

Lechliter said he remembers watching the later seasons and reruns with his parents as a child but really became a fan when he rediscovered the show about five years ago.

“I binge-watched it," Lechliter said. “I was like, ‘Wow, this really is amazing.’ When I heard about this event, I said, ‘I’ve gotta go.' ”

The anniversary celebration will continue through the weekend with career discussions, as well as bus and walking tours of filming locations.

The Miami Vice Museum is open to the public from Friday to Sunday, featuring a wide range of items never before displayed together since the show’s conclusion in 1989. The exhibit is being hosted at the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum.

And to kick off the celebration on Thursday, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner met with cast and crew at the Avalon Hotel in South Beach to present a proclamation declaring Sept. 16, 2024, as “Miami Vice Day.”

Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actor Bruce McGill, who guest-starred as retired detective Hank Weldon in the show's second season, signs a model Ferrari for a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)

Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actress Olivia Brown, right, who played Detective Trudy Joplin, speaks with a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)

Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." (AP Photo/David Fischer)

Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actor Edward James Olmos, who played Lt. Martin Castillo, takes a photo with a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)