Padres 3, Marlins 2
SAN DIEGO -- Right-hander Odrisamer Despaigne allowed one run on two hits over six innings, and for the third straight game right-handed relievers Joaquin Benoit and Craig Kimbrel blanked Miami over the final two innings as the San Diego Padres defeated the Marlins 3-2 at Petco Park on Sunday.
Left fielder Justin Upton hit his 16th homer for the Padres while right fielder Matt Kemp drove in the decisive run with a grounder.
The Padres won three of four games against the Marlins to complete a 6-3 homestand. Their Friday and Saturday wins were by identical 3-1 scores.
Despaigne (4-7) ended a personal four-game losing streak and picked up his first win since May 31. Kimbrel got his 30th save. Over the past three games, Benoit and Kimbrel have allowed no runs on one hit with six strikeouts over a combined six innings.
The Padres scored two runs in the bottom off the second off Marlins right-handed starter -- and former Padre -- Mat Latos (4-7).
Upton opened the second with his 16th homer of the season -- a 393-foot liner into the left-field seats on a full-count fastball. The homer was Upton's second in six games, but only his fourth since May 24. Thirteen of Upton's homers this season have been hit at Petco Park.
First baseman Yonder Alonso followed Upton's homer by slicing an opposite-field single to left, and he raced to third on second baseman Jedd Gyorko's opposite-field single to right. Alonso scored on shortstop Alexi Amarista's opposite-field sacrifice fly to left.
Amarista was the first of 11 straight Padres retired by Latos until center fielder Will Venable opened the sixth with an opposite-field double down the line in left. Venable advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by third baseman Yangervis Solarte, and he scored on a grounder to short by Kemp to extend the Padres' lead to 3-1.
Latos was finished after six innings, allowing three runs on six hits with five strikeouts.
Despaigne was also done after six innings and 81 pitches. He allowed one run on two hits, two walks and a hit batter. He struck out three Marlins.
Despaigne didn't allow a hit through the first four innings. The Marlins got on the board in the fifth when catcher J.T. Realmuto and shortstop Miguel Rojas opened the inning with back-to-back singles and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Latos. Realmuto scored on a sacrifice fly by Ichiro Suzuki.
Realmuto again cut the Padres' lead to a run when he hit a solo homer off Padres right-handed reliever Brandon Maurer with one out in the seventh.
The Padres are 8-3 over their last 11 games.
NOTES: Padres OF/1B Wil Myers suffered what the team hopes is a temporary setback in his rehab from June 18 surgery to remove a bone spur from his left wrist. Myers swung a light bat for the first time Saturday and reported soreness in the wrist afterward. He will fly to Arizona Monday to be examined by Dr. Don Sheridan, the doctor who performed the surgery . . . Padres RHP Brandon Morrow felt fine after his 40-pitch rehab with Triple-A El Paso Saturday night and is scheduled to throw four innings or 60 pitches Thursday . . . Marlins SS Miguel Rojas left Sunday's game midway through the seventh inning with a right shoulder strain. Rojas was injured making an awkward, diving stop of the Matt Kemp RBI grounder in the sixth.