SAN DIEGO -- The Padres needed a game like that one.

Through the first five games of the homestand, the Padres had scored 11 runs. As a team, they had a slash line of .168/.225/.284 over that span and batted .088 with runners in scoring position.

That changed on Saturday night as the Padres got big games at the plate from their core of Fernando Tatis Jr., Luis Arraez, Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill, who went a combined 7-for-15 with three home runs and six RBIs to power the Friars to an 11-3 win over the Rockies at Petco Park.

Starting pitcher Dylan Cease did his part, tossing six innings of one-run ball, with six strikeouts. He also picked up a pair of milestones on Saturday, surpassing 1,000 career innings and crossing the 200-strikeout threshold for the fifth consecutive seaso

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