SAN DIEGO _ At a wiry 6 feet and 195 pounds, Cory Spangenberg is hardly the picture of a budding power threat. He's no slap-hitter, either.
The 26-year-old infielder hit his third homer in the last two days, capping an evening in which situational hitting _ for a change _ got the San Diego Padres started toward in a 7-4 win on Monday night over the Philadelphia Phillies to begin the homestand.
The Padres collected two sacrifice flies, the last in a four-run sixth that answered the error that Spangenberg made a half-inning earlier to give the Phillies' their second lead of the night.
An inning later, Spangenberg lifted a home run over the wall in left to improve his career-best total to 11.
His last two have come left of center field, giving the left-handed Spangenberg five career opposite-field homers.
Sunday marked the second multi-homer game of the season and the third of his career.
Padres starter Travis Wood threw 92 pitches (56 strikes) in a laborious fourth start for his new team. He allowed two runs on six hits and two walks, struck out three and exited after five innings after Manuel Margot ran down a bases-loaded drive from Rhys Hoskins to end the fifth.
Hoskins added a second shot in the seventh inning off Craig Stammen after Jose Torres got the final out of the sixth inning.
Kirby Yates threw a scoreless eighth in his return to the team and Brad Hand stranded two runs in the ninth to save his 10th game.
Phillies starter Jerad Eickhoff allowed two runs _ one earned _ on five hits and three walks in five innings.
Austin Hedges drove in the first run on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the second and the second scored when Margot, also with the bases loaded, beat out an errant throw to first base to tie the game at 2-2.
The Padres scored four runs in the sixth on timely hitting off the Phillies' bullpen: Hedges' run-scoring single to center, Carlos Asuaje's sacrifice fly to center and Jose Pirela's two-run single to left.
