PITTSBURGH _ The Pirates have put together enough offense to win the first two games of this series against their suddenly quiet visitors.
With four runs against Craig Stammen in the eighth inning Saturday, they beat the Padres, 6-3, at PNC Park.
That followed the Pirates' 2-1 victory on Friday.
Padres rookie Chris Paddack allowed two runs, both on Jose Osuna's pinch-hit homer in the fifth inning. He allowed five hits, walked three and struck out one in five innings in his first start after a 10-day sojourn to Single-A for some rest and recalibration.
The Padres offense, which arrived here having ripped baseballs all over Denver and San Diego in the previous week, remained mostly a rumor on the banks of the Allegheny River.
That is, outside one bat that continues to make noise.
Among the Padres' six hits was Manny Machado's RBI single off Michael Feliz with two outs in the ninth inning, the third run he has driven in among the four the Padres have scored in the series. Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez replaced Feliz and struck out Hunter Renfroe to end the game.
Machado hit a solo homer for the second game in a row, his sixth homer in nine games, to give the Padres a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning. The Padres tied the game 2-2 in the seventh on Manuel Margot's pinch-hit double, Ian Kinsler's bunt single and Fernando Tatis Jr.'s sacrifice fly.
After Brad Wieck and Trey Wingenter navigated scoreless innings in relief of Paddack, Stammen (5-4) entered for his 36th appearance of the season, tied for sixth most in the majors.
He walked off the mound having taken the loss for the third time in his past eight games. He has not allowed a run in five of those games but has allowed four, three and four in the other three games.
Starling Marte reached out to line the first pitch Stammen threw into right field.
The ball skipped past Josh Naylor, bounced off the metal lining the bottom of the wall and rolled away from Naylor as Marte raced to third base.
Carefully pitching to Josh Bell, who counted a major league-leading 50 extra-base hits in the .312 batting average he brought into the game, Stammen issued a walk.
After a groundout put runners on second and third, the Padres intentionally walked Corey Dickerson.
Adam Frazier's single up the middle scored Marte and Bell. Elias Diaz followed with an RBI single, and Jung Ho Kang drove in the final Pirates run with a sacrifice fly.
The Padres' second loss on the heels of a four-game win streak dropped them to 38-39.
