Homers guide D-backs past Padres in season-series opener

Josh Naylor and Corbin Carroll homered as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 5-1 on Friday in Phoenix during the first meeting between the National League West rivals this season.
Geraldo Perdomo and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. each had two hits and an RBI and Ketel Marte extended his on-base streak to 25 games with a single and a walk for the D-backs, who have won four in a row and eight of 11.
Ryne Nelson (3-2) gave up six hits and an unearned run in five innings, with three strikeouts and a walk, and the D-backs’ bullpen held the Padres hitless over the final four innings.
Fernando Tatis Jr. had two hits and scored the lone run for the Padres, who have lost three of four and six of nine. His fifth-inning single was the last of San Diego’s six hits.
Stephen Kolek (3-2) permitted five runs (four earned) in 4 1/3 innings, exiting in the D-backs’ three-run fifth that included Carroll’s homer. He struck out five and walked two.
Carroll reached the 20-homer mark for the third time in his three full major league seasons.
The Padres took a 1-0 lead two batters into the game. Tatis hit a leadoff double and scored when center fielder Alek Thomas threw past third as Tatis attempted to advance on Luis Arraez’s flyout.
San Diego appeared to score another run in the second, after Gavin Sheets and Jake Cronenworth singled to put runners on the corners with one out. With Cronenworth running, Elias Diaz fanned for the second out.
Cronenworth stole second and Sheets came home when catcher Gabriel Moreno’s throw went into center field, but plate umpire Jansen Visconti called umpire’s interference on the throw and sent the runners back. Tyler Wade then flied out to end the inning.
Naylor homered to lead off the bottom of the second, and the D-backs scratched out a run to take a 2-1 lead in the third. Carroll struck out but reached on a passed ball on what would have been the third out. Marte walked before Perdomo hit an RBI single to center.
After Carroll led off the fifth with an opposite-field homer to left, Marte and Perdomo singled. Naylor drove in one with a sacrifice fly, and Gurriel singled in another to make it 5-1.
The contest was the opener of a three-game series.