Diamondbacks belt 3 homers in shutout victory over Padres

Max Kepler, Geraldo Perdomo and Nolan Arenado all homered Monday night while Brandon Pfaadt sailed through five shutout innings as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks routed the San Diego Padres 8-0.

Pfaadt (2-1) allowed four hits and walked none while striking out six in his second straight win. Two relievers finished up the shutout, teaming up for an eight-hitter.

Walker Buehler (5-5) absorbed his second straight loss, yielding seven hits and seven runs in five innings with a walk and four whiffs. Since beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on June 26, Buehler has permitted 16 runs in nine innings, bumping his earned run average up from 3.81 to 5.07.

After snapping an eight-game losing streak Sunday night with a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego trailed just four pitches into this game. Ketel Marte lined a leadoff triple to center and Perdomo was plunked by a pitch.

Perdomo took off for second with Corbin Carroll hitting. Buehler stepped off the rubber and would have gotten an out with an accurate throw but airmailed shortstop Sung-Mun Song for an error.

After a one-out walk to Gabriel Moreno, Kepler slapped a two-out single to left that gave Pfaadt a 2-0 lead before he threw a pitch.

Arizona broke it open in the third with four runs. Carroll doubled with one out, followed by a single by Moreno and an RBI single from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Kepler then bombed a three-run homer to right, his first of the year, that traveled an estimated 417 feet.

Perdomo made it 7-0 in the fourth with his sixth homer that sailed an estimated 377 feet to right. And Arenado started the sixth with his 10th homer of the season, a 361-foot fly ball that bonked off the Western Metal Supply building beyond the left field wall.

San Diego never got a runner to scoring position until Jackson Merrill legged out an infield single to start the seventh and reached second on a one-out groundout by Song. But Rodolfo Duran fanned to end the inning.

--Field Level Media