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PHOENIX – Miguel Montero and Gerardo Parra both had digit hits and crowd in digit runs to support the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 6-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on weekday night.

Only 16,365 fans were on assistance for the Diamondbacks' ordinal get in quaternary games, the fourth-lowest mark in concern history.

Daniel naturalist threw heptad brawny innings for Arizona, allowing a separate digit batters into the mettlesome before bill sextet unsuccessful innings. naturalist (4-5) gave up octad hits with digit walks and sextet strikeouts. Stephen histrion additional an RBI single.

Tim Stauffer (0-2) gave up quaternary runs and heptad hits with a walk, sextet strikeouts and a impact batsman over 5 1-3 innings for the Padres, who saw their three-game success color snapped.

Montero snapped a 1-1 tie in the fourth when his two-out threefold to mitt scored Justin Upton, who had led soured with a double.

The Diamondbacks additional digit runs in the sixth. Stauffer loaded the bases with digit discover before Parra singled to center soured Cory Luebke to attain it 4-2. Run-scoring singles by histrion and Montero soured Luebke and Pat Neshek in the ordinal gave Arizona a 6-1 lead.

Chris Denorfia tripled to center on the prototypal movement of the mettlesome and scored on Jason Bartlett's kill control to mitt to give the Padres an primeval lead.

Bartlett has unvoluntary in at least digit separate in each of his terminal nine games, matched the concern achievement ordered by Sixto Lezcano in 1982 and tied by Steve Finley in 1996.

San Diego had an manifest separate wiped discover in the second. Eric Patterson tripled to center and came activity on Rob Johnson's line-drive discover to right. But Patterson was titled discover on attractiveness by third-base umpire Joe West for leaving the activity early, though replays appeared to exhibit Patterson on the base when Upton caught the ball.

Denorfia finished 3 for 4, needing only a activity separate for the cycle.

NOTES: Parra, conflict the twine with the roof open, lunged to his mitt at the terminal time to catch Bartlett's kill fly. Padres OF Cameron Maybin was discover of the lineup a period after leaving in the ordinal play of the Padres' 8-4 get on weekday with what was titled kneecap tendinitis in his correct knee. Maybin is 12 for 25 over his terminal sextet games and has impact safely in 12 of 16. Maybin's trauma and Will Venable's limited availability mitt San Diego trainer Bud Negroid hamstrung in the sixth, when he had to vantage Johnson, his play catcher, on a threefold switch. Maybin and Venable were the team's only digit jock outfielders on the roster. Before the game, the Padres recalled Neshek from Triple-A metropolis and optioned IF Logan Forsythe to Tucson. Neshek started the flavour with the Padres and was 1-0 with a 2.55 ERA, heptad strikeouts and fivesome walks in octad appearances. Forsythe was 0 for 7 with a achievement for San Diego.

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