Xander Bogaerts handles Jared Triolo's one-hop grounder, then spins and throws to first in time for the first out in the bottom of the 9th

When people with the Padres talk about Xander Bogaerts and where he bats and when he bats and what is expected of him with a bat in his hands, it is with reference and deference to his being one of the best players in Major League Baseball.

Bogaerts' seventh-inning, two-run homer helped the Padres to a 7-4 win over the Giants and ended an unwanted individual streak.