SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — The San Diego Padres rallied for two runs in the eighth inning and scored the decisive run in the ninth to beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 Wednesday afternoon at PETCO Park. Fernando Tatis Jr. went 2 for 5 with a home run and two RBIs, and Manny Machado doubled in a run in the first inning. The Padres scored single runs in the first and fifth before tying the game in the eighth on a Gavin Sheets RBI double and a Samad Taylor run-scoring single. The Reds answered in the fourth on Spencer Steer’s two-run homer, his 10th, and added solo homers by Eugenio Suárez in the seventh and JJ Bleday in the eighth. Cincinnati outhit San Diego 10-11 but left seven runners on base. Padres starter Michael King allowed three earned runs over 6⅔ innings with three strikeouts. Wandy Peralta (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win. Reds starter Brady Singer gave up two earned runs in six innings with five strikeouts. Chase Petty (0-1) took the loss. San Diego improved to 35-32, while Cincinnati fell to 32-35. Attendance was 37,393, and the game lasted 2:37.

SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — Fernando Tatis Jr. crushed a walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday afternoon, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at PETCO Park before 37,393 fans. The game lasted 2 hours, 37 minutes. Tatis, who finished 2 for 5 with a home run and two RBIs, sent a 1-0 pitch from Reds reliever Tony Santillan over the left-field wall for his second homer of the season. The blast capped a wild eighth inning that saw both teams trade blows, and it gave the Padres a series win after they dropped the opener 5-3 on Tuesday. San Diego improved to 35-32, while Cincinnati fell to 32-35. The teams traded early runs but the Reds appeared in control after building a 4-2 lead on solo home runs in the seventh and eighth innings. JJ Bleday led off the seventh with his 11th homer of the season, a solo shot to right off Padres starter Michael King. Eugenio Suarez added a solo homer in the eighth, his fifth of the year, to push the Reds’ lead to 4-2. But the Padres answered in the bottom of the eighth. Jackson Merrill led off with a double off Reds reliever Zach Maxwell. Gavin Sheets followed with an RBI double, scoring Merrill to trim the lead to 4-3. After an out, Samad Taylor singled to center field, driving in pinch-runner Jase Bowen to tie the game 4-4. Neither team scored in the top of the ninth. The Reds put a runner on base when Matt McLain singled off Padres reliever Ron Marinaccio, but a double play erased him. Sal Stewart walked, but Spencer Steer grounded into a forceout to end the inning. In the bottom of the ninth, Santillan retired Rodolfo Duran on a groundout and got Sung-Mun Song to ground out. Tatis then connected on the 1-0 pitch for the game-winning home run. Wandy Peralta, who pitched a scoreless top of the ninth, earned the win, his first of the season against no losses. Chase Petty took the loss, also his first decision of the year. Cincinnati starter Brady Singer delivered a solid outing, allowing two earned runs on six hits over six innings with five strikeouts. King worked 6 2/3 innings for San Diego, giving up three earned runs on seven hits while striking out three. Spence Steer put the Reds ahead 2-1 in the fourth inning when he hit a two-run home run, his 10th of the season, after Bleday had walked. That gave Cincinnati a 2-1 lead, and the Reds extended it to 3-1 in the seventh on Bleday’s homer. San Diego struck first in the bottom of the first. Jackson Merrill singled, and Manny Machado doubled him home for a 1-0 lead. The Reds tied it in the fourth on Steer’s homer, then took the lead for good until the late Padres rally. Cincinnati outhit the Padres 10-8 through seven innings, but San Diego finished with 11 hits to the Reds’ 10. The Reds are now 1-2 on their four-game West Coast trip. They host the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday to begin a 10-game homestand. The Padres travel to Baltimore for a three-game series starting Friday. Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of San Diego 3, Cincinnati 2. Interstat’s ELO system gave San Diego a 59.80 percent probability to win. The Padres were installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total of nine runs went under the over/under line of eight.

SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — The San Diego Padres host the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday afternoon at PETCO Park in the second game of a three-game series. First pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. under clear skies, with a game-time temperature of 76 degrees. San Diego (34-31) enters with a one-game lead over Cincinnati (31-34) in the National League wild-card race. The Padres won Monday’s series opener 6-2, with right-hander Walker Buehler earning the win despite allowing eight hits over 4⅔ innings. Right-hander Brady Singer (2-6, 4.68 ERA) will start for the Reds. Singer is seeking his first win since May 20. Right-hander Michael King (4-5, 3.89 ERA) will start for San Diego. King is 2-1 with a 3.12 ERA over his last four starts. Cincinnati’s Andrew Abbott, who started Monday’s loss, has posted a 3.02 ERA over his last five outings. In that span, he has struck out 20 batters over 28⅓ innings. San Diego’s Walker Buehler has a 2.89 ERA over his last five starts. He is 3-1 in that stretch. The Reds have lost four of their last five games. The Padres have won two of their last three. The game will feature the third and fourth innings with the score tied 0-0 after two innings Monday. The Padres scored three runs in the third inning of that game. The Interstat game simulator projects a 3-2 Padres victory. San Diego is a -1.5 run favorite, and the over/under is 8 runs. After this series, Cincinnati travels to face the Arizona Diamondbacks for three games starting Friday. San Diego visits the Baltimore Orioles for a three-game set beginning Friday.