SAN DIEGO _ Chris Paddack was dominant on Thursday, except on a pitch right after his night had started and one shortly before his night was over.
All that did was keep the San Diego Padres close, as their bats were befuddled once again in a 4-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds at Petco Park.
The Padres have scored nine runs in a four-game skid.
Joey Votto sent an 0-2 fastball over the wall in center field leading off the game, and Tucker Barnhart lined a first-pitch fastball just over the wall in right field with two out in the fifth inning.
Between the first two homers he allowed in the majors, Paddack retired 14 of the 16 batters he faced. Barnhart's blast made it 3-0, because one of those reaching base was Scott Schebler on a walk to lead off the fifth.
Paddack allowed three hits and got through six innings, the last of those in four pitches.
Reds starter Tanner Roark kept the ball inside the park and was aided by another of the recurring base running blunders by the Padres.
Including his three-pitch fourth inning, which included Eric Hosmer leading off with a single but being doubled up on Manny Machado's line drive to right field, Roark allowed four hits in 5 1/3 innings.
The last of those hits was Fernando Tatis Jr.'s single, which followed Luis Urias' walk and put runners at first and second with one out in the sixth.
Left-hander Zach Duke came in to strike out Hosmer before Machado's long fly ball off Robert Stephenson bounced on the warning track just beyond the glove of left fielder Derek Dietrich and over the wall for a double that scored Urias. With the tying runs on base, Franmil Reyes struck out to end the inning.
Jesse Winker's homer off Phil Maton in the ninth provided the final margin.
