SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Brandon Morrow pitched six strong innings and Justin Upton drove in two runs as the San Diego Padres handed the Colorado Rockies their fourth straight loss, 4-2 on Saturday night.Matt Kemp had an RBI single in San Diego's second straight win after losing seven of eight.Morrow (2-0) wriggled out of a jam in the sixth, getting Nick Hundley to groundout with two on. Morrow was charged with two runs and seven hits. He struck out four. 
Craig Kimbrel struck out two in a perfect ninth to earn his seventh save this season and 33rd straight overall.Jorge De La Rosa (0-2), who lost to the Padres last month, allowed three runs on five hits and three walks, one intentional, in five innings. He struck out nine.Kemp singled in a run in the first, but San Diego fell behind on DJ LeMahieu's RBI groundout in the second and Charlie Blackmon's third homer of the season. It was Blackmon's second extra-base hit, after opening the game with a double.The Padres took a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning on Upton's one-out, two-run single up the middle. Wil Myers had walked for his second time and Derek Norris reached on his second hit, a double. Upton was thrown out at second when Blackmon's throw from center field to the plate was cut off.Myers had a run-scoring single in the sixth to make it 4-2.
Craig Kimbrel struck out two in a perfect ninth to earn his seventh save this season and 33rd straight overall.Jorge De La Rosa (0-2), who lost to the Padres last month, allowed three runs on five hits and three walks, one intentional, in five innings. He struck out nine.Kemp singled in a run in the first, but San Diego fell behind on DJ LeMahieu's RBI groundout in the second and Charlie Blackmon's third homer of the season. It was Blackmon's second extra-base hit, after opening the game with a double.The Padres took a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning on Upton's one-out, two-run single up the middle. Wil Myers had walked for his second time and Derek Norris reached on his second hit, a double. Upton was thrown out at second when Blackmon's throw from center field to the plate was cut off.Myers had a run-scoring single in the sixth to make it 4-2.
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