CINCINNATI _ There were not a lot of pitches put in play Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park.
The few that did stood out not only for their rarity but for their uniqueness.
The decisive hit was a two-run homer Freddy Galvis hit 100 feet into the air and about 10 feet beyond the left field wall in the sixth inning.
The Reds' 3-2 victory came in a game that started 11 minutes late due to rain showers that ran from the late afternoon until shortly before the scheduled first pitch. It also denied the Padres their first four-game winning streak since the end of June.
There were nine hits in all, four by the Padres.
Josh Naylor had two of those, a single with an exit velocity of 104.8 mph and a 424-foot homer with a 106.7 mph exit velocity that tied the game 1-1 in the first inning.
His hardest hit _ one of the 25 hardest-struck balls in the majors this season _ resulted in an inning-ending double play.
Naylor and Manny Machado were the only Padres who did not strike out against Reds starter Sonny Gray, who fanned 10 in six innings.
Padres rookie Cal Quantrill kept up pretty well with one of the majors' strikeout leaders. Quantrill went six innings, tying his career high with nine strikeouts.
Two pitches off the plate were what kept Quantrill (6-4) from getting his third straight win and fifth in six games.
The two-seam fastball to Galvis, a switch-hitter, was an inch outside.
The Reds scored their first run in the first inning, after Josh VanMeter led off with a single and got to third when Austin Hedges' throw trying to get him stealing second bounced into center field.
With two outs, Quantrill sent a 3-1 slider spinning out of the zone against the right-handed hitting Aristides Aquino, who reached out to poke a single into right field at 72.3 mph.
The Padres had squandered one-out singles by Naylor and Machado in the top of the first.
Machado's was a 110.3 mph line drive into center field. Naylor's was the 104.8 mph grounder into center field.
Eric Hosmer and Francisco Mejia followed with the second and third strikeouts of what would end up being 24 on the night.
Naylor's hit was essentially a practice swing.
In the third, with Greg Garcia having drawn the first walk from Gray with one out, Naylor turned a 94 mph fastball just below the belt into a 115.1 mph grounder right at VanMeter, the Reds' first baseman. The former minor league shortstop in the Padres system speared the ball and threw to second base, which was being covered by third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who threw to Gray covering first to complete the rare 1-5-3 double play.
Naylor tied the game in the sixth when he sent a 1-2 fastball in the center of the strike zone bouncing off the dark plexiglass fronting the restaurant that serves as the batter's eye in center field.
The next three Padres would reach base.
Machado singled on pop fly into center field that resulted in Galvis, the Reds' new second baseman, being run over by center fielder Nick Senzel and being tended to by an athletic trainer before remaining in the game. Hosmer and Mejia walked before Manuel Margot lined the third out to Senzel.
The Padres would rally again with successive walks to start the eighth inning against reliever Amir Garrett before Michael Lorenzen came in to get Machado on a fly ball to left.
Hosmer then grounded into what appeared would be an inning-ending double play started by Galvis. But shortstop Jose Iglesias sailed the relay to first base, allowing Garcia to score and sending Hosmer to second. Mejia's fly ball to center ended the inning.
