SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a 424-foot leadoff home run and made a nice game-ending catch, Jason Heyward also went deep and Kyle Hart and three relievers combined on a four-hitter for the NL West-leading San Diego Padres, who shut out the Colorado Rockies for the second straight game, 2-0 on Saturday night.
Hart (2-0) went six innings, allowing just a double by Kyle Farmer in the fourth inning while striking out four and walking none. Jeremiah Estrada pitched a hitless seventh, Jason Adam allowed a single in the eighth and Robert Suarez allowed two singles in the ninth while earning his big league-leading seventh save in as many chances.
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Colorado Rockies second baseman Kyle Farmer, left, attempts to tag out San Diego Padres' Brandon Lockridge as he steals second base safely in the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez, left, is tagged out by Colorado Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon as he attempts to steal home in the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts prepares to throw to first to complete a double play after forcing out Colorado Rockies' Kyle Farmer at second base on a ball hit by Ryan McMahon during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
From left, San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jose Iglesias and Jason Heyward celebrate after the team defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. catches a fly ball at the wall hit by Colorado Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez celebrates after the team defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Jason Heyward points towards his dugout while running the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Jason Heyward watches his solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
Colorado Rockies' Chase Dollander delivers a pitch to San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. gestures towards the sky as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. runs the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
With runners on first and second and two outs in the ninth, Tatis ran down Kris Byrant's liner in the right field corner and jumped to make the catch.
On Friday night, Nick Pivetta and two relievers combined on a three-hitter in an 8-0 win.
The Padres have five shutouts in 15 games.
Tatis drove a full-count, 97.6-mph fastball from rookie Chase Dollander into the Padres' dugout beyond the fence in center, where Logan Gillaspie hopped off the bench, caught it and threw it to a fan. It was the fourth this season for Tatis, who also homered into the bullpen Friday.
Tatis extended his franchise record with his 13th career leadoff shot. He's hit safely in 11 of his 14 games and reached base in all 14. He was moved into the leadoff spot this season.
Heyward hit a 410-foot shot to right with one out in the fifth, his first with the Padres.
Dollander (1-1) allowed two runs and three hits in 5 2/3 innings, struck out seven and walked two.
Tatis' home run put a charge into the sellout crowd of 44,066.
Tatis is tied with Adrian Gonzalez for the second-most homers at Petco Park at 65. Manny Machado has 91.
Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (0-2, 3.79) and Padres RHP Michael King (2-0, 4.05) are scheduled to start Sunday's series finale.
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Colorado Rockies second baseman Kyle Farmer, left, attempts to tag out San Diego Padres' Brandon Lockridge as he steals second base safely in the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez, left, is tagged out by Colorado Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon as he attempts to steal home in the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts prepares to throw to first to complete a double play after forcing out Colorado Rockies' Kyle Farmer at second base on a ball hit by Ryan McMahon during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
From left, San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jose Iglesias and Jason Heyward celebrate after the team defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. catches a fly ball at the wall hit by Colorado Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez celebrates after the team defeated the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Jason Heyward points towards his dugout while running the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Jason Heyward watches his solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
Colorado Rockies' Chase Dollander delivers a pitch to San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. gestures towards the sky as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. runs the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)
The jury has been picked in Karen Read’s second murder trial over the death of her police officer boyfriend, with opening statements scheduled for next week.
An 18-member panel — nine men and nine women — was chosen by Tuesday. There will be 12 jurors and six alternates.
Opening statements are scheduled for April 22.
Read’s attorneys had filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court for a delay in the trial, contending that trying her again on second-degree murder and leaving the scene would be double jeopardy. The high court denied the delay and is expected to consider her appeal April 25.
Read, who lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm in 2022 outside a house party in nearby Canton. Her attorneys have said O’Keefe was actually killed by someone else, possibly another law enforcement agent who was at the party, and that she was framed.
Last year, the judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile.
After the trial, several jurors came forward to say the group was unanimous in finding Read not guilty of the most serious charge, second-degree murder, and a lesser charge. Despite attempts by Read’s lawyers to get those charges dismissed, she will face the same counts as she did at her first trial. They also failed to have the entire case tossed, arguing governmental misconduct.
Read, who worked as a financial analyst and as a Bentley College adjunct professor before she was charged, faces second-degree murder and other charges in the death of John O’Keefe, who was 46 when he died. The 16-year police veteran was found unresponsive outside the home of a fellow Boston police officer.
After a night out drinking, prosecutors say Read, who is 45, dropped off O’Keefe at the house party just after midnight. As she made a three-point turn, prosecutors say, she struck O’Keefe before driving away. She returned hours later to find him in a snowbank.
As they did at the first trial, prosecutors will try to convince jurors that Read’s actions were intentional. They are expected to call witnesses who will describe how the couple's relationship had begun to sour before O'Keefe's death. Among them will be his brother, who testified during the first trial that the couple regularly argued over such matters as what Read fed O’Keefe’s children, and that he witnessed a 2021 fight the couple had in Cape Cod over how his brother treated her. The brother's wife testified that Read told her the couple had argued in Aruba after she caught O’Keefe kissing another woman.
The defense is expected to portray the investigation into O’Keefe’s death as shoddy and undermined by the close relationship investigators had with the police officers and other law enforcement agents who were at the house party.
Among the key witnesses they will call is former State Trooper Michael Proctor, who led the investigation but has since been fired after a disciplinary board found he sent sexist and crude texts about Read to his family and colleagues. He is also on the prosecution's witness list.
A key moment in the first trial was Proctor’s testimony, in which the defense suggested his texts about Read and the case showed he was biased, and had singled her out early in the investigation and ignored other potential suspects.
They also are expected to suggest Read was framed, saying O’Keefe was actually killed inside the home during a fight with another partygoer and then dragged outside. In the first trial, defense attorneys suggested investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who saved them from having to consider law enforcement officers as suspects.
Ahead of the second trial, the two sides sparred over whether Read's lawyers will be allowed to argue that someone else killed O'Keefe. Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Monday that attorneys can't mention potential third-party culprits in their opening statements but will be allowed to develop evidence against Brian Albert, a retired police officer who owned the Canton home, and his friend Brian Higgins. Lawyers cannot implicate Albert's nephew, Colin Albert, the judge said.
A town-commissioned Canton Police Department audit following O'Keefe's death was released March 30. While not reinvestigating any cases, its top suggestions regarding Read's were that first responders should have photographed O'Keefe where he was found before he was moved; that all interviews of “critical witnesses” should have been done at the department after O'Keefe was taken to a hospital; and that agreed-to recordings of witness interviews be conducted.
Soon after the mistrial, Read's lawyers set out to get the main charges dropped.
They argued Judge Cannone declared a mistrial without polling the jurors to confirm their conclusions. Defense attorney Martin Weinberg said five jurors indicated after the trial that they were only deadlocked on the manslaughter count and had unanimously agreed that she wasn’t guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene, but that they hadn’t told the judge.
The defense said that because jurors had agreed Read wasn't guilty of murder and leaving the scene, retrying her on those counts would amount to double jeopardy. But Cannone rejected that argument, as did the state's highest court, a federal court judge, and an appeals court.
Prosecutors had urged Cannone to dismiss the double jeopardy claim, saying it amounted to "hearsay, conjecture and legally inappropriate reliance as to the substance of jury deliberations.” Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally argued that the jurors never indicated they had reached a verdict on any of the charges, were given clear instructions on how to reach a verdict, and that the defense had ample opportunity to object to the mistrial declaration.
The second trial will likely look similar to the first. It will be held in the same courthouse before the same judge, and dozens of Read's passionate supporters are again expected to rally outside. The charges, primary defense lawyers and many of the nearly 200 witnesses will also be the same.
The biggest difference will be the lead prosecutor, Hank Brennan. A former prosecutor and defense attorney who was brought in as a special prosecutor after the mistrial, Brennan has represented several prominent clients, including notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, and experts think he might be more forceful than Lally was in arguing the case.
Defense attorney Robert Alessi introduces himself to prospective jurors during jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Karen Read, left, speaks with her defense attorney Alan Jackson during jury selection for Read's trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Defense attorney Alan Jackson introduces himself to prospective jurors during jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Karen Read, center, sits with her defense team during jury selection for Read's trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Karen Read, left, and her defense team introduce themselves to prospective jurors during jury selection for Read's trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Prosecution attorney Hank Brennan introduces himself to prospective jurors during jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Judge Beverly Cannone addresses prospective jurors during jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A Massachusetts State Police officer talks with supporters of Karen Read, who gathered prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read, outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as Turtleboy, walks towards court prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Prosecution attorney Adam Lally, right, arrives for jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Prosecution attorney Hank Brennan arrives for jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Supporters of Karen Read gather during jury selection for the trial of Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
