PHOENIX_The San Diego Padres finally got enough big hits on Thursday.
Austin Hedges' home run in the fifth inning broke a tie, Wil Myers twice drove in Carlos Asuaje and Asuaje drove in another run as the Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-3.
The win was just the Padres' fourth in 17 games, and it dropped Arizona into a tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers for first place in the National League West.
In their nearly three-week slide, the Padres had averaged 2.7 runs a game and batted .204 with runners in scoring position. They were 3-for-7 with runners in scoring position on Thursday.
Asuaje, the second batter of the game, tripled to the wall in center field and scored on Myers' single.
Hedges, who entered Thursday batting .181 in 94 at-bats this season, blasted a 2-0 fastball 421 feet to left field to give the Padres a 2-1 lead in the fifth.
It was the Padres' 73rd home run of the season, fourth fewest in the majors.
The Padres scored twice more before there was an out in the sixth and then again with two outs.
Asuaje led off the inning with an 11-pitch walk in which he fouled off five pitches after falling behind 0-2. Myers followed with a triple to right-center field. Myers scored when Eric Hosmer's grounder bounced off the tip of shortstop Nick Ahmed's glove.
Hosmer, who took second base on the play, was on the verge of being stranded there when two strikeouts followed, but Freddy Galvis drove him in with a single that gave the Padres a 5-2 lead.
Asuaje, who walked in the third inning, hit a single in the seventh to score Travis Jankowski from second base. Asuaje has reached base nine times in 11 plate appearances since being called up from Triple-A on Sunday.
Padres starter Eric Lauer (4-5) did well to make it into the sixth inning.
A Ketel Marte double and Jake Lamb single to start the second inning produced the only run against Lauer, and after he threw 46 pitches in the first two innings, the rookie took just 38 pitches to get through the next three innings. He struck out Paul Goldschmidt to strand runners at the corners in the fifth.
The first two batters reached base in the sixth, and Matt Strahm came in to bail out Lauer with three quick outs.
After a scoreless seventh, Marte's two-run home run with one down in the eighth made it 6-3. Strahm got the next batter before Andy Green called on Kazuhisa Makita, who got John Ryan Murphy on a line drive to third base.
Brad Hand allowed a lead-off single on a dribbling ground ball but then struck out three straight for his 24th save.
