The Padres first two picks from the 2018 draft class showed well Thursday at low Single-A Fort Wayne.
Left-hander Ryan Weathers pushed past a slump with four shutout frames and Xavier Edwards hit his first home run as a pro as the TinCaps beat South Bend, 5-2, at Parkview Field.
The seventh overall pick last year, Weathers’ ERA had nearly doubled over a span of four starts when he threw 45 of his 63 pitches for strikes. He fanned four, scattered two hits and didn’t walk a batter in lowering his ERA to 3.