PHILADELPHIA _ The Padres got a lead straight away, and their starting pitcher protected it this time.
And so, with a 10-2 victory over the Phillies in the opener of Sunday's doubleheader, a losing streak was stopped at six games.
Sunday's nightcap, necessitated when rain postponed Saturday's game, is scheduled to start at 3:05 p.m. PT. Luis Perdomo (1-4, 7.55) will face Vince Velasquez (5-8, 4.39).
The Padres won Sunday's first game the way they couldn't win two nights (one game) earlier.
Friday, they took a 4-0 lead in their first at-bat and went on to lose 11-5 after starting pitcher Clayton Richard allowed a run in the first inning and six in the second.
The Padres went up 3-0 on Sunday afternoon, which turned out to be enough to get Tyson Ross (6-8) on his way to his first victory since June 3.
Erratic at times, especially early, Ross went five innings. Rhys Hoskins scored both runs against him _ on a solo home run in the first inning and after leading off the fifth with a double that popped in and out of Hunter Renfroe's glove at the wall in right field.
In helping the Padres avoid their first seven-game losing streak since they dropped 10 in a row in the middle of 2013, Ross stopped a personal losing streak at three games.
The Padres had won just two of his previous seven starts, a span in which he had a 6.21 ERA, almost three points higher than in his first 12 starts. The Padres won nine of those 12.
He stranded runners in scoring position in each of the first three innings, working through two walks in the first and another in the third.
The Padres also scored for him, something they had not done often. The Padres scored two runs or fewer while he was in nine of his 19 previous starts and a total of 40 runs while he was in his starts, fourth-fewest in the majors.
By the time Matt Strahm took the mound in the bottom of the sixth, the Padres were up 7-2.
The three runs in the first came on Carlos Asuaje's double, an RBI single by Eric Hosmer, a double by Renfroe and two-run single by Freddy Galvis.
It was the first time since August 12 and 14, 2015 in Colorado that the Padres scored three or more runs in the first inning of consecutive games.
The Padres entered Sunday's game with a 29-16 record when they scored first but also having lost four straight games in which they had done so.
Along with Ross, Strahm (two innings), Craig Stammen (one) and Colten Brewer (one), the Padres made sure that wouldn't happen Sunday.
Asuaje led off the third inning with a double off the wall in right-center and scored on Renfroe's single.
Hosmer led off the sixth with a single, went to third on Galvis' single and scored when Phillies' second baseman Cesar Hernandez lost Christian Villanueva's pop-up in the sun. After Franmil Reyes, pinch-hitting for Ross, drew a two-out walk to load the bases. Travis Jankowski followed with a double down the right-field line.
Wil Myers' home run in the ninth followed singles by Cory Spangenberg and Jankowski and gave the Padres their 10-2 margin.
