Juan Soto belted a tiebreaking three-run home run and Manny Machado drilled a pair of homers as the visiting San Diego Padres snapped a season-long, six-game skid with a 12-5 rout of the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.
Veteran right-hander Michael Wacha returned from a one-start absence, allowing just one run on five hits over five innings on his 32nd birthday.
The Reds were hurt by their defense. Elly De La Cruz committed an error that led to an unearned run charged against starter and loser Brandon Williamson in the decisive four-run sixth.Spencer Steer threw away a routine grounder in San Diego's five-run seventh as the Padres put the game away against reliever Alec Mills with three more unearned runs.
The Padres took the first lead in the third when Trent Grisham walked to open the inning. After stealing second, Grisham scored on a Fernando Tatis Jr. double to right. Williamson started the sixth for Cincinnati and gave up a leadoff single to Austin Nola. Reliever Buck Farmer entered the game and gave up a three-run homer to Soto three batters later, which broke the 1-1 deadlock. Machado immediately followed with his 10th homer to cap the four-run sixth.
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