SAN DIEGO _ Hunter Renfroe has nine home runs this season.
Four of them have decided games, including the 414-foot blast into the second deck of seats in left field on Wednesday that lifted the Padres to a 3-2 victory over the Mets at Petco Park.
The victory gave the Padres their seventh series win of the season, half as many as they had all last year, and completed a 3-3 homestand. They have won the final game of all three of their homestands and are 21-17, their best record 38 games into a season since they were 23-15 in 2010.
Gerardo Reyes (2-0) relieved Matt Strahm and got the final two outs of the seventh inning with the runners he inherited still on second and third base and then got through the Mets in order in the eighth.
Kirby Yates worked the ninth, stranding two runners. One had reached on a two-out infield single and went to second base on a wild pitch, the other on a walk, for his major league-leading 15th save.
After allowing a run in each of the first two innings, Strahm did his best to let the Padres back in the game and also get them back in the game.
The left-hander did not yield another run, and he doubled and scored the tying run in the third inning.
His first walk in five starts and a double in and out of center fielder Manuel Margot's glove as he leaped at the wall, drove Strahm from the game.
Reyes relieved him and was the unhittable version of himself in striking out Tomas Nido and Todd Frazier on six pitches _ three of them at 99 mph and the other half with a silly break.
The rookie right-hander, who since spring training has also had a penchant for allowing big innings, got the victory on the day he was recalled from Triple-A because Renfroe did what Renfroe has done so much.
Renfroe has just since April 26 hit three home runs in the seventh inning or later that provided the winning margin. That includes his walk-off grand slam Sunday against the Dodgers.
