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--Friday night marked the fourth time this season that the Padres couldn't hold a lead after Greg Maddux left the game. He gave up two runs on five hits over six innings against the Giants and departed with a 3-2 lead. The Giants tied the score in the seventh.
--2B Tadahito Iguchi went 2-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to eight games (12-for-40). More important, he drew the one-out walk in the 13th that started the Padres' four-run, game-winning rally.
--RHP Cha Seung Baek struck out the side in the 12th in his Padres debut Friday and picked up the win when the Padres scored four times in the 13th.
--RF Brian Giles hit a two-run triple in the third and doubled in the 13th to either drive in or score four of the Padres' first five runs.
BY THE NUMBERS: 5 -- Season-high homers hit by the Padres on May 25 in the 18-inning, 12-9 win over the Reds.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "It was nice to come back after hitting such a symbolically low point." -- SS Khalil Greene, on the Padres' two wins over Cincinnati at the end of a week that saw them lose RHPs Jake Peavy and Chris Young and C Josh Bard to injuries.
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