The Padres got back to taking patient at-bats Sunday.
All they did was wait for Madison Bumgarner to throw them pitches in the strike zone, and they hit them over the wall in left field. Then they hit a couple offerings from Taylor Widener into the seats as well.
After the Padres had set a team record with six home runs in a home game, they settled in to watch Dinelson Lamet mow down the Diamondbacks en route to a 9-5 victory at Petco Park.
The big right-hander did not allow a hit until Kole Calhoun led off the seventh inning by sending a slider over the wall in left field.
It was the second straight start and the third time in his past 13 starts Lamet began a game by going at least 5 2/3 innings without allowing a hit.
Manager Jayce Tingler walked to the mound and called for Luis Patino with two outs in the seventh and the Padres up eight runs. Lamet threw 83 pitches and struck out 11.
Two two-run homers by the Diamondbacks, off Patino and then Tim Hill in the ninth, accounted for the final score.
Lamet's latest bid to throw the first-ever no-hitter in the franchise's 8,154 games came after the Padres hit six homers in the first three innings of a game for the first time.
Every run in the game came via a homer. And all 14 runs the Padres scored in the three-game series came as the result of a home run _ eight solo homers and three two-run shots. They won two of the games to improve to 5-2 against Arizona this season and 9-7 overall.
Fernando Tatis Jr. homered for the fourth straight game, though for the first time in three games, he waited until the second inning.
Sunday, it was Manny Machado, the second batter, and Wil Myers, the fifth batter, who homered to put the Padres up 3-0 in the first inning.
Machado also homered in the second, immediately after Tatis had launched a two-run homer to the second deck of seats beyond left field.
The Padres were up 6-0 after two innings and made it a third straight three-run inning when Ty France led off the third against Widener with a line drive over the left field wall. After Widener hit Jurickson Profar, Francisco Mejia sent a slider at the knees high into the air and off the right field foul pole to make it 9-0.
The Padres' 11 hits Sunday were one fewer than the total Lamet has surrendered in four starts (22 1/3 innings) this season.
