SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — Ramón Laureano hit a tiebreaking home run with one out in the seventh inning and Manny Machado and Nick Castellanos also homered as the San Diego Padres beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3 on Friday night. The Padres improved to 30-20 and snapped the Athletics’ three-game winning streak, dropping Oakland to 26-25. Laureano’s sixth homer chased Athletics starter Jeffrey Springs, who took the loss after allowing four earned runs in 6 1/3 innings. Adrian Morejon earned the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief. San Diego added three runs in the eighth, including a two-run double by Gavin Sheets and a sacrifice fly by Xander Bogaerts. Walker Buehler started for the Padres, allowing three earned runs over five innings. Oakland scored two runs in the first and one in the fourth, but San Diego tied the game in the first on Machado’s two-run homer and took the lead on Laureano’s blast. Attendance was 41,180, and the game lasted 2:27.

SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — Ramón Laureano hit a tiebreaking home run with one out in the seventh inning and Manny Machado and Nick Castellanos also connected as the San Diego Padres beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3 on Friday night. The Padres bounced back from consecutive losses to the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers and beat the AL West-leading Athletics for the ninth time in their last 10 meetings. Oakland had its three-game winning streak snapped, falling to 26-25, while San Diego improved to 30-20. Athletics starter Jeffrey Springs carried a 3-2 lead into the fifth inning before Castellanos tied the game with a solo homer. Laureano put the Padres ahead for good in the seventh, driving Springs’ pitch over the left-field fence for his sixth home run of the season. San Diego added three runs in the eighth, highlighted by a two-run single from Gavin Sheets. Oakland struck first in the opening inning. Carlos Cortes led off with a single to center and scored on Nick Kurtz’s double to center. Kurtz moved to third on a groundout by Shea Langeliers and scored on a groundout by Brent Rooker, giving the Athletics a 2-0 lead. The Padres answered immediately in the bottom of the first. Fernando Tatis Jr. walked, and two batters later Machado launched a line-drive homer to left-center field, scoring Tatis and knotting the score 2-2. Machado’s eighth homer of the year came off Springs. The Athletics regained the lead in the fourth. Zack Gelof led off with a double to left, and Henry Bolte singled to center, driving in Gelof to make it 3-2. The Padres tied it again in the fifth when Castellanos hit a fly ball to left field that cleared the fence for his fourth homer of the season, evening the score 3-3. The game remained tied until the seventh. After Xander Bogaerts flied out, Laureano connected on a 1-1 pitch from Springs, sending a fly ball to left field that gave the Padres a 4-3 lead. Springs, who allowed four runs on three hits over 6.1 innings with three strikeouts, took the loss and fell to 3-5. Adrian Morejon replaced Springs and struck out the side in the seventh, retiring Nick Castellanos, Bryce Johnson and the next batter in order. Morejon earned the win, improving to 4-1, pitching 1.1 perfect innings with three strikeouts. San Diego broke the game open in the eighth against Athletics reliever José Suarez. Rodolfo Durán singled, Tatis singled, and Miguel Andujar singled to load the bases. Sheets then singled to left, driving in Durán and Tatis for a 6-3 lead. Machado struck out, but Bogaerts lifted a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Andujar for a 7-3 advantage. Suarez faced three batters and allowed two hits and one walk before being pulled. Bradgley Rodriguez of the Padres pitched 0.2 scoreless innings in relief, allowing two hits. Walker Buehler started for San Diego and worked five innings, giving up five hits and three earned runs while striking out four. Jeremiah Estrada tossed a scoreless sixth inning with one strikeout, and Jason Adam closed with a clean ninth inning, allowing one hit but no runs. Key defensive plays included a double play in the third inning turned by shortstop Darell Hernaiz, second baseman Jeff McNeil and first baseman Nick Kurtz to end a Padres threat. In the fourth, a replay challenge overturned a called strike on Jeff McNeil, but McNeil later struck out on the same at-bat. Oakland threatened in the sixth, loading the bases with one out on a single by Bolte, a single by McNeil and a walk to Hernaiz, but Colby Thomas struck out to end the inning. The Athletics had won three straight prior to Friday, including a 3-2 victory in 10 innings at the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday. The Padres had lost consecutive games to the Dodgers, 4-0 and 5-4, before Friday’s win. Oakland continues its road trip with the second game of this interleague series Saturday, while San Diego looks to build on the victory. The announced attendance was 41,180 at PETCO Park. The game lasted 2 hours, 27 minutes. Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of San Diego Padres 6, Athletics 4. Interstat’s ELO system projected San Diego with a 61.30 percent probability to win. San Diego was installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of 10 went under the over/under line of 8.

AP Sports Preview SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — The San Diego Padres host the Athletics on Friday night at PETCO Park, with first pitch set for 6:40 p.m. PDT under cloudy skies and 67-degree temperatures. The Padres (29-20) enter as Interstat projections’ favorite, holding a 61.30 percent win probability with a projected 6-4 final score. San Diego dropped a 4-0 decision to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday but took two of three in that series. (25-24) arrives after a 6-5, 10-inning victory at the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, splitting that two-game set. Right-hander Walker Buehler (3-2) will start for the Athletics. He faces a Padres lineup that has scored eight runs or more in two of its past three wins. San Diego counters with right-hander Randy Vásquez. Vásquez (4.1 IP, 6 H, 3 ER in a loss Wednesday to the Dodgers) will look to rebound after a quality start May 15 at Seattle (6.0 IP, 4 H, 0 ER) and a five-inning win May 9 against St. Louis (6 H, 1 ER, 6 K). Players to watch Athletics: Reliever Luis Medina has been sharp in his past three outings, allowing zero earned runs over 5.0 innings, including 2.0 scoreless frames with two strikeouts against the Angels on Wednesday. He earned the win in that game and has a 1.29 ERA over his last five appearances (7.0 IP, 1 ER, 8 K). Padres: Vásquez will be the focal point after a difficult outing. Before Wednesday’s loss, he had allowed two earned runs or fewer in four of his previous five starts, posting a 3.38 ERA in that span. Season context The Padres hold a four-game lead over the Athletics in the interleague matchup. dropped four of its previous six games before Wednesday’s win but has shown resilience on the road, taking three of four at Baltimore earlier this month. The series continues Saturday and Sunday at PETCO Park before returns home to face Seattle. San Diego then hosts Philadelphia for a three-game set beginning Monday.