The Padres followed a painful rarity with something they do fairly often.
The day after seeing a six-run lead evaporate in the final three innings of what became a walk-off loss, the Padres shut out the Diamondbacks 4-0 at Chase Field on Wednesday afternoon to earn a split of the two-game series here.
The Padres have recorded 10 shutouts, tied for third most in the major leagues.
The victory stopped a losing streak at three games and, at least temporarily, moved the Padres within a game of the National League West-leading Dodgers in advance of their four-game series that begins Thursday at Dodger Stadium.
A major league team loses a game in which it squanders a six-run lead once every 200 games or so. A night after Sean Manaea and three relievers let a 6-0 lead slip away, Wednesday went to plan.
Mike Clevinger threw six scoreless innings for his second win of the season, and Nick Martinez followed with three scoreless innings to earn his second save of the season.
Clevinger, who spent 2021 rehabbing from a second Tommy John surgery, allowed one hit and walked one while striking out a season-high six batters. It was his first quality start since 2020.
Martinez allowed a single, a double and walked one.
While their pitchers were working on a much-needed gem, the Padres scored in four of the final five innings.
A two-out walk by Jurickson Profar and single by Austin Nola put runners at first and second in the fifth, and Jake Cronenworth's first hit in seven games gave them a 1-0 lead.
That first run came against Madison Bumgarner. The Padres didn't have the same level of success they have enjoyed since he joined the Diamondbacks, except that he and the Diamondbacks lost.
Bumgarner is now 0-5 and his team is 1-7 in his starts against the Padres since the start of the 2020 season. His ERA against them in that span improved to 6.03.
Ha-Seong Kim walked with one out in the sixth and sprinted to third base when pitcher Kyle Nelson sailed a pickoff attempt well out of reach of first baseman Christian Walker. After José Azocar lined out, CJ Abrams' line-drive single to left field drove in Kim.
The Padres added a run in the seventh when Cronenworth, who was 0-for-26 in his previous six games, doubled and Luke Voit singled.
Cronenworth had his hand in a third run with his second double, driving in Profar, who had walked, with a drive off the top of the wall in straightaway center in the ninth inning.
