Myers homers twice, Paddack fans 11, Padres beat Reds 8-2

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Wil Myers made up for lost time with two impressive swings.

After struggling for weeks, Myers homered twice and doubled to lead the San Diego Padres to an 8-2 win against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night. Tommy Pham hit a leadoff homer and Chris Paddack struck out 11 in five impressive innings to match his career high.

The Padres have hit seven homers in winning the first two games of the four-game series. They came into the series struggling badly after losing 13 of 17 games, including going just 1-5 on a trip through New York and Colorado.

Coming off a 6-4 thriller Thursday night in which they hit four homers in the final four innings, including a pair of two-run homers in the ninth, the Padres didn't wait that long to break out on Friday night. Pham hit an opposite-field shot to right on rookie Tony Santillan's second pitch, his sixth.

Myers homered off the first floor of the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in the left-field corner leading off the second, giving him the most homers by a Padres player at Petco Park, 58. He had been tied with Adrian Gonzalez at 57.

“I've been trying to do that for like a month now. I finally got it. Pretty cool to have. It's definitely a record that I don't think will every be broken, so that's nice," he cracked.

Myers' 59th homer at the downtown ballpark was a leadoff shot off reliever Ashton Goudeau into the Padres' bullpen in the fourth for a 4-1 lead.

It was his ninth career multihomer game and first since Game 2 of the 2020 wild-card series against the St. Louis Cardinals. He has eight homers this season.

He hadn't homered since May 30 at Houston. He hadn't homered at home since April 7 against San Francisco.

Myers missed 10 games in May after testing positive for COVID-19.

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