SAN DIEGO _ Joey Lucchesi pitched a career-high 62/3 innings, Luis Urias and Eric Hosmer each had three hits and the Padres completed their first series sweep of the season with an 8-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday at Petco Park.
The Padres had won three in a four-game series three times, two in a three-game series eight times but had not even gone into a single series finale this season with a chance at a sweep.
This was just a two-game set. But the Padres, at 52-83 overall and losers of five straight and 11 of 13 coming in, had been swept in three of their previous four two-game series.
Lucchesi took a line drive to the groin, picked up the ball and threw to first to get the first out of the fourth inning before crumpling to his knees and staying on the infield grass for a couple minutes.
Lucchesi (7-7) remained in the game, struck out the next five batters and retired 10 of 11 before a two-out walk to Cameron Maybin and a double by Mariners relief pitcher Roenis Elias ended his day with two outs in the seventh inning.
It was just the second time in his 21 starts that Lucchesi lasted into the seventh, as he tied his high of nine strikeouts and threw a career-high 108 pitches.
He allowed his only run on a single, stolen base and another single three batters into the game. Half of the Mariners' six hits against him came in the first inning, and they got just one after the third inning.
The Padres supported Lucchesi by scoring all their runs in the first five innings.
They took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first on Freddy Galvis' single, Wil Myers' walk, an RBI single by Hosmer and a sacrifice fly by Hunter Renfroe. Manuel Margot hit a home run in the second, and Renfroe sent a ball to the second balcony of the Western Metal Building in the third for a three-run homer.
The third also featured the first major-league hit (a single) by Urias and the first major-league RBI (on a sacrifice fly) by Lucchesi.
Urias, who debuted Tuesday, rounded the bases with what appeared to be his first home run in Wednesday's fourth inning, but the shot down the right-field line was ruled foul after a replay review. Urias ended up grounding out in that at-bat but doubled in the sixth and added a single in the eighth.
Franmil Reyes walked and scored on Margot's double in the fifth inning to make it 8-1.
After rookie Trey Wingenter got the final out of the seventh inning, the Mariners scored two runs off rookie Colten Brewer in the eighth.
