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.

Xander Bogaerts homered and knocked in three runs as the San Diego Padres snapped a four-game losing streak with a 7-4 win over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Tuesday.