DENVER _ In his first career start at Coors Field, Chris Paddack returned.
His fastball jumped to all parts of the strike zone. His change-up got awkward swings and quizzical looks.
In a mile-high ballpark that yields a major league-high 13 runs a game, Paddack didn't allow an earned run for the first time since opening day.
Only an error in the sixth inning kept him from going deeper into the game and the Rockies from being shut out, as the Padres led from the start and won 13-2 Sunday afternoon.
Paddack allowed five hits and two unearned runs in six innings. He earned his first win since Aug. 3 after taking the loss in three of his past four starts, a stretch in which he posted a 7.32 ERA.
The Padres scored double-digit runs for the fifth time in 13 games and sixth time this season.
Eric Hosmer's three-run homer in the first inning was the Padres' first homer in 103 at-bats, a season-high drought that spanned 26 innings.
They added two runs in the second inning when Austin Hedges walked, Trent Grisham tripled and Fernando Tatis Jr. singled. The lead was 6-0 after Hedges drove in Ty France with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Jake Cronenworth's two-run homer in the seventh put the Padres up 8-2, and Jurickson Profar and Grisham added solo homers in the eighth. The Padres' final run came when Manny Machado followed a Tatis double with a single.
The Rockies scored a run in the bottom of the sixth on two infield singles, an error and single to center field.
After Raimel Tapia reached on a one-out chopper to third base and Nolan Arenado singled on a grounder to shortstop, Paddack appeared to get out of the inning when Hosmer fielded Charlie Blackmon's grounder and threw to Tatis covering second base. But Tatis failed to make the catch, and Tapia scored. The error was charged to Hosmer. Ryan McMahon followed with a line drive to center field that scored Arenado before Paddack ended the inning with his eighth strikeout.
Emilio Pagan pitched a scoreless seventh, Cal Quantrill a perfect eighth and Javy Guerra a scoreless ninth.
