Carlos Santana homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates scored five times in the seventh inning Wednesday to smack the visiting San Diego Padres 7-1.

Connor Joe and Henry Davis each added two-run singles and Josh Palacios added an RBI single for the Pirates, who have won two straight for the first time since a six-game winning streak that ran through June 5.

Pittsburgh starter Mitch Keller (9-3) allowed one run and four hits in six innings, with five strikeouts and two walks.

Xander Bogaerts hit an RBI single for the Padres, who have lost four in a row.

San Diego starter Blake Snell (4-7) turned in his sixth straight quality start. He gave up two runs and three hits in six innings, with 10 strikeouts and two walks. It was his fourth straight start with at least 10 strikeouts this season.

Snell came into the game with an 18-inning scoreless inning streak. He didn't make it to 19.

With two outs in the first, Davis singled to center and Santana followed with his eighth homer for a 2-0 Pirates lead.

In the sixth, San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. led off with a base hit to center and went to second on a wild pitch. After Juan Soto flied out and Manny Machado struck out, Bogaerts singled to right to drive in Tatis and close it to 2-1.

Nick Martinez took over for Snell in the seventh, and that's when the Pirates took over the game. Nick Gonzalez led off with an infield single, Jack Suwinski walked and Jared Triolo, making his major league debut, was hit by a pitch attempting to bunt to load the bases.

San Diego manager Bob Melvin got ejected for arguing after the Padres lost a challenge to the hit batsman call.

Palacios the singled to right to drive in Gonzalez for a 3-1 Pirates lead. Joe flared a single to shallow center to bring home Suwinski and Triolo to push the lead to 5-1. Andrew McCutchen's single to left loaded the bases again and chased Martinez for Luis Garcia.

Davis greeted Garcia with a two-run single to right to make it 7-1.

--Field Level Media