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CINCINNATI — The Padres scored nine runs between the sixth and seventh innings and emphatically halted their longest losing streak of the season at six games with a 12-5 victory over the Reds on Saturday.

CINCINNATI — With two hits and two fly ball outs, the Padres tied Friday's game in the ninth inning. It was the kind of manufacturing and kind of late rally they have not produced often this season.

After Hunter Greene — who came in 0-4 with 4.68 ERA — pitched six no-hit innings, the Cubs didn’t get their first hit until Christopher Morel’s single off reliever Eduardo Salazar leading off the eighth inning. The Cubs were out-hit 19-2.

PITTSBURGH — To reach a benchmark never done before in the Derek Shelton era, it was only fitting that a trio of first-year Pirates helped make the feat possible.

CINCINNATI — They surrounded Matt Strahm on the mound in the third inning Saturday. The entire Phillies infield was there. Manager Rob Thomson, too, as assistant athletic trainer Joe Rauch examined the pitcher’s finger.

Barnhart faced his former club for the first time Monday and notched his first hit with the Cubs.

CINCINNATI — The upside of Vince Velasquez, one of two starting pitchers the Pirates added via free agency this winter, can be really good. With multiple breaking balls, as well as a spin-heavy, riding fastball, it’s certainly not weaponry Velasquez lacks. For the large part of his career, however, it’s…