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Adrian Gonzalez hit a grand slam
   

08/26/10

   

SAN DIEGO -- It has been a roller coaster season for Kevin Correia, and things may have sunk to a new low Thursday against the D-backs.


The Arizona bats roughed up Correia for nine runs in 3 1/3 innings, as the D-backs topped San Diego, 11-5, on Thursday in front of a crowd of 20,983 at PETCO Park to avoid a three-game sweep against their National League West rivals.


Correia allowed nine hits, four of which came in the fourth inning, when the D-backs tallied five runs to put the game out of reach.


The loss was Correia's second in a row, following three straight victories. He failed to get out of the fifth inning in each of his past two starts, when he has averaged seven earned runs allowed.
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A ground-rule double to center by Stephen Drew brought home Gerardo Parra before Justin Upton followed with a single to right to score Ian Kennedy. A walk to Kelly Johnson filled the bags and chased Correia from the game, but then Chris Young cleared the bases when he lined a 2-1 fastball from Padres reliever Tim Stauffer to the wall in left-center and extend the D-backs' lead to 9-0.


The D-backs jumped on Correia by scoring four times in the first two innings, with the biggest blow coming on Drew's three-run homer just over the right-field wall that gave Arizona a 4-0 lead.


Kennedy, on the other hand, tossed a gem for Arizona. He gave up one hit and set a career high with 12 strikeouts over seven shutout innings.
Arizona added two more runs in the seventh inning when Mark Reynolds blasted a two-run homer to the bleachers in right-center.


The Padres got on the board late, when Chris Denorfia got into a rundown between home and third, only to have catcher Miguel Montero throw the ball off his back and into no man's land.


Adrian Gonzalez later lined a grand slam into the right-field stands, moving him into sole possession of second place on the Padres all-time home run list with 157.


The victory was the first for the D-backs at PETCO Park this season. They had lost their previous eight games at the Padres' home ballpark.
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