PHOENIX_Joey Lucchesi hit the first batter he faced and, after a double, had runners at second and third before he'd recorded two outs on Friday night.
By the time the next Diamondbacks batter reached base, Lucchesi had gotten his first major-league hit and scored his first major-league run.
Lucchesi would retire 14 straight batters_right up until he walked Arizona pitcher Zack Godley to start what ended up being a two-run sixth inning in which Lucchesi was tagged for two hits to load the bases with one out before he hit another batter to bring in the tying run.
Luchessi would leave at that point, and Steven Souza's groundball off reliever Adam Cimber would score what would stand as the winning run in a 3-1 Diamondbacks victory.
Lucchesi, who had taken just 61 pitches to get through five innings, fell to 4-4 on the season as his ERA crept up a hundredth of a point to 3.27.
As spectacular a spiral as it was, Lucchesi's sixth inning was merely a subplot in the ongoing horror story that is the Padres offense.
Friday night was the 36th time this season the Padres were held to two or fewer runs, second-most in the majors (behind the Baltimore Orioles' 38). They are 2-34 in those games.
In the past 17 games, the Padres are averaging 2.2 runs in their 14 losses and 4.8 runs in their four victories. Friday was the eighth time in that span they scored two or fewer runs.
It was also the fifth time during this particularly fruitless stretch they had five or fewer hits in a game.
One of those on this night was Lucchesi's one-out single in the third inning_a grounder through the hole on the left side of the infield, on which he ran straight through the bag even as the ball was reaching the left fielder.
He demonstrated more adeptness going to third base on Travis Jankowski's single to right field, and Lucchesi scored on Carlos Asuaje's grounder.
The Padres would get two hits after that.
Austin Hedges was stranded after a one-out double in the fourth. Freddy Galvis singled and Hedges was hit by a pitch with one out in the seventh before pinch-hitter Wil Myers grounded into an inning-ending double play .
The Diamondbacks added a run off Craig Stammen in the eighth inning.
