MONTERREY, Mexico _ Eric Lauer got out of the cold, rediscovered the full complement of his four pitches and shut out the Dodgers for six innings in his third major league start.
In the last of the Padres' three games in Mexico, the rookie earned his first win in a 3-0 victory.
After being no-hit in the opener here, the Padres had 20 hits over the final two games.
Eric Hosmer's second two-run homer in two games gave the Padres the lead for good in the fifth inning, and Brad Hand got the final three outs for his ninth save of the season and second in two days.
With that, Lauer was headed to the traditional beer shower.
The assumption is it will be Mexican beer, not the domestic stuff that celebrated the maiden wins of rookies Joey Lucchesi and Adam Cimber last month.
Lauer, who was called up and made his debut April 24 in Colorado, pitched some high-stress innings Sunday and worked out of each one of them.
The Dodgers put runners in scoring position in the first five innings and a man on first in the sixth.
All nine runners that reached against Lauer would be stranded, and the Dodgers were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position against the 22-year-old left-hander.
Lauer acknowledged relying too heavily on his fastball in his first start and early in his second. It is a deceptively effective pitch, but at about 91 mph it is most effective when he smartly mixes in his three other pitches, especially his change-up and curve.
Lauer threw the fastball almost 70 percent of the time against the Rockies, an outing in which the temperature hovered in the high 30s and Lauer lasted three innings and saw him allow seven runs (six earned). Last Monday in San Francisco, another chilly evening, Lauer leaned on the fastball in a three-run first inning before going liberally to the changeup and finishing with four scoreless innings against the Giants.
The victory was the Padres' first in a "rubber" match this season. Five times, the Padres had lost the finale of a three-game set when a victory would have given them the series. This was their third series win (of 11).
Travis Jankowski scored two runs in his second straight game serving as the Padres' leadoff hitter. He singled in front of Hosmer's blast to center field in the fifth inning and his second stand-up triple in two days put him in position to score on Franchy Cordero's seventh-inning single.
Lauer, who has now thrown 10 scoreless innings in a row after allowed seven runs (six earned) in his first four innings, was actually one out away from his first victory in San Francisco.
But Nick Hundley's walk-off single off Padres closer Brad Hand gave the Giants a 6-5 victory.
This time, the Padres bullpen held.
Craig Stammen, who took 24 pitches to get through two innings in Saturday's victory, pitched the seventh.
The 3-0 cushion from Jankowski's run made the eighth inning slightly less stressful, as Kirby Yates ran into trouble in the eighth, just as he had in Saturday's sixth inning. But with two strikeouts, he stranded runners at first and second.
Hand struck out all three batters he faced in the ninth inning.
