PADRES

“We did a really good job in that ninth inning with Franchy running at third base and Freddy getting it down,” Padres manager Andy Green said. “Sometimes you just put pressure on defense and good things happen.”

Pitcher Jordan Lyles had squeezed in a run to give the Padres a 4-1 lead in the fifth.

Vazquez blew a save for the first time in 10 chances.

“Today was just kind of a rough day,” Vazquez said. “Just move forward,

forget about what happened today and forget about this series.”

San Diego built its early lead on Villanueva’s tworun homer in the fourth and a two-run fifth that included Manuel Margot’s RBI groundout. Those four runs came on just four hits allowed by Trevor Williams in his six innings.

Pittsburgh tied the score in the sixth when Austin Meadows and Mercer homered on consecutive pitches. Meadows’ first big league homer was a tworun drive. Lyles allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings.

“Just ran into a buzzsaw

that last inning, in the sixth,” Lyles said. “I made a decent pitch, the curveball, and (Meadows) put a good swing on it. After that, started pounding the zone again to Mercer and left it over the plate.”

Kirby Yates (3-0) allowed a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth to Harrison, who had three hits in his return from the disabled list. Harrison had been out with a broken left pinkie sustained when he was hit by a pitch from Miami’s Jose Urena on April 15.

Brad Hand worked around a pair of walks in the ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances.