The Astros beat the Padres 4-3 in 10 innings after Jose Altuve was sent off in a wild scene in the 9th inning.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Just moments after Jose Altuve was ejected for removing his left soccer shoe and sock to prove a point, his replacement Grae Kessinger scored the game-winning run in the 10th inning and then made a sensational game on second base to seal the Houston Astros' wild 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.

Altuve made it to third base on a groundout in the last inning, but insisted he fouled the ball off his foot. In a crazy scene took off his cleats and socksto show the umpires where the ball had landed, and was sent off by umpire Brennan Miller. Manager Joe Espada was ejected after continuing to argue.

“Sometimes you get hit somewhere on the hand and you take your batting glove to show you got hit. I expected to do the same thing,” Altuve said.

“It crossed my mind that this can't happen,” he added. “It's the ninth inning, the winning hit on second base, I'm battling a good pitcher, (Robert) Suarez, the closer, so obviously I'm trying to get a hit and knock the run in and win the game. I get a foul ball because it hit my foot and they just took it away from me. I don't think this can happen. There are four guys on the field and you can see the change in direction of the ball. You just have to make the right decision.”

Espada was still excited afterwards.

“It's a foul ball,” the manager said. “You have to see the ball when it hits the foot, the trajectory of the ball. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. It's happened twice this year. I have a lot of respect for the referees. They work hard. But there are four out there. You have to be able to see it. They missed that decision.”

Kessinger started the 10th as an automatic runner in place of Altuve, advanced on Yordan Alvarez's groundout and scored on Kyle Tucker's single to left against Adrian Morejon (2-2).

Astros relief pitcher Héctor Neris loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning before getting Manny Machado to force a play on a terrific backhand stop by Kessinger, who threw the ball to shortstop Jeremy Peña to end the game.

It was Kessinger's first game with the Astros since July 13.

“Right before he hit the ball, I thought he was going to hit it up the middle and it was going to bounce off the mound, and that's what happened. But catch it. That's the job,” Kessinger said.

He had assumed he would enter the game after Altuve was ejected.

“When he started untying his shoe, I grabbed my glove. I didn't know if I was the one going in, but I didn't know what he was doing, but I was just getting ready,” Kessinger said.

The Padres were able to tie the game twice: first at 2-2 with Machado's 27th home run with one out in the sixth inning and at 3-3 in the eighth inning when Fernando Tatis Jr. scored on Josh Hader's wild pitch with two outs.

Hader (8-7) was booed and warned for violating the pitch clock. After a long delay, it was announced that no violation had occurred. Hader then threw a wild pitch that knocked Tatis down.

Hader was with the Padres from the 2022 trade deadline until last year before leaving as a free agent. He drew the ire of San Diego fans when he said late last season he wasn't ready to get more than three outs.

Neris made his 18th save.

The Padres failed to extend their wildcard lead over Arizona and remained 3 1/2 games behind Los Angeles in the NL West.

Machado admired his 400-foot home run for several seconds, tossed his bat aside and pointed toward the Padres dugout as he started running.

Last week, Machado broke Nate Colbert's 50-year-old club record with 163 home runs and now has 165 in his six seasons with the Padres.

Hunter Brown had struck out nine batters in a row before Tatis hit a leadoff single two batters off Machado.

The Astros took a 3-2 lead in the eventful eighth inning. Alvarez hit a double to right-center with one out, advanced on a balk by Jason Adams while Kyle Tucker was at bat, and scored on Adams' wild pitch that drew a walk to Alex Bregman.

The Astros took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning. Singles by Tucker and Bregman put runners on first and second base before Jon Singleton hit a blooper into the left outfield for a scoring double. Jeremy Peña's groundout brought Bregman into the game.

Brown allowed two runs and five hits in six innings.

King had seven strikeouts in seven innings. He was credited with two runs and five hits.

TRAINING ROOM

Astros: OF Ben Gamel was placed on the 10-day injured list with a broken left leg, three days after he ran into the wall while catching a ball at Angel Stadium. Gamel is out indefinitely. César Salazar was recalled from Triple-A Sugar Land.

Padres: Luis Arraez was back in the starting lineup as DH, despite hitting his knee into home base on Monday night.

Next

Astros LHP Framber Valdez (14-6, 2.91 ERA) and Padres RHP Dylan Cease (13-11, 3.58 ERA) are scheduled to start on Wednesday.

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