Padres hold on to top Phillies
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Alexi Amarista smacked a two-run homer among his three hits and the San Diego Padres topped the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4, in the second test of a four-game set.
Rymer Liriano posted three hits and scored a run for San Diego, which has taken the first two games of the series.
Ian Kennedy (11-13) allowed three runs on three hits and four walks with seven strikeouts over six innings, while Kevin Quackenbush yielded a run in the ninth but still notched his fourth save of the season.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I felt better than what the line score looked liked," Kennedy said.
A.J. Burnett (8-17) surrendered five runs -- four earned -- on eight hits and four walks over 5 2/3 frames for the Phillies. Freddy Galvis belted a two-run shot and Domonic Brown added a solo blast in defeat.
The Phillies led 3-2 before the Padres plated three two-out runs in the sixth to go ahead.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jake Goebbert worked a two-out walk, stole second and scored when Amarista golfed his two-run shot into the front row of seats in right. Liriano and pinch-hitter Tommy Medica singled before pinch-hitter Jedd Gyorko brought Liriano home with a base hit to give San Diego a 5-3 edge.
Earlier, Will Venable's RBI single and Yasmani Grandal's run-scoring groundout opened the scoring for San Diego in the first.
Philadelphia pushed across a run in the second and two more in the fifth to take the lead.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Brown's solo blast to left in the second got the Phillies on the board, and they led 3-2 following Galvis' two-run shot to right in the fifth.
Game Notes
San Diego was 4-for-12 with runners in scoring position, while Philadelphia finished 1-for-5 ... Burnett's 17 losses this year are a new career high.