Manny Machado hit a three-run double and Nick Pivetta allowed one run and struck out six in seven innings to lead the San Diego Padres past the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4 in the first game of a doubleheader on Wednesday.

Pivetta (9-2) is off to the best start in his nine-year career, the first 3 1/2 spent with the Phillies. The 32-year-old entered nine games under .500 in his career and has never won more than 10 games. He went 6-12 in Boston last season but found success in San Diego and has kept the Padres in the thick of the NL wild-card race.

Perhaps the lone dose of bad news came Tuesday, when the game was rained out which forced the day-night doubleheader. Pivetta, whose 195 career starts are seventh-most by a Canadian, had his scheduled start on Canada Day postponed.

Kyle Schwarber took Pivetta deep in the sixth for his 26th homer, which made it 6-1.

Machado had already done the bulk of the damage in a five-run second inning against Phillies rookie starter Mick Abel (2-2). Abel had loaded the bases when he issued consecutive walks to Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill to make it 2-0. Machado followed with his 21st double of the season.

Abel, who struck out nine over six innings in his May big-league debut, walked five (four scored) and allowed five runs in 1 2/3 innings.

Luis Arraez walked with the bases loaded in the fourth to make it 6-1.

BARNES IS A GIANT

Six weeks after being released by the Dodgers, veteran catcher Austin Barnes has a new job.

The Riverside native signed a minor-league contract with the San Francisco Giants.

The 35-year-old Barnes has been assigned to the Giants’ Arizona Complex League team for now.

Barnes was designated for assignment in May after playing parts of 11 seasons with the Dodgers.

He was batting .233 with three RBIs in 13 games. He started at catcher 12 times this season after starting there a career-low 42 times in 2024, not counting the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

A key component of the Dodgers’ 2017 World Series run, when he batted .289 with eight home runs and 38 RBIs in 102 games, Barnes departs with two World Series rings.

— Bill Plunkett

FUTURE STARS

Teammates at Class-A Great Lakes, outfielders Josue DePaula and Zyhir Hope, have been selected to represent the Dodgers on the National League team at the All-Star Futures Game to be played on July 12 at Truist Park in Atlanta.

DePaula is batting .269 with a team-leading 10 home runs and an .852 OPS at Great Lakes this season. Acquired in the trade that sent Michael Busch and Yency Almonte to the Chicago Cubs, Hope is batting .297 with an .864 OPS, seven home runs, 46 RBIs and 11 stolen bases.

Both are ranked in Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects in baseball this year.

— Bill Plunkett

AROUND THE MAJORS

Wilyer Abreu hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon and the Boston Red Sox beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 in the completion of a game suspended by rain a night earlier.

Trevor Story added an RBI double after Abreu’s hit, sending Boston to its third win in four games after a six-game losing skid, its longest since September 2022.

Joey Ortiz hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the sixth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the staggering New York Mets 7-2 on Wednesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader. New York has dropped 14 of 17 overall and been outscored 37-6 during its four-game losing streak.

First baseman Trey Mancini opted out of a minor league deal following his release from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The 33-year-old hit .308 with 16 homers and 62 RBIs at Triple-A Reno. The release gives Mancini an opportunity to sign with another club that might need help on the major league roster.

Mancini hit 129 homers over a seven-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs. He hit a career-high 35 homers for the Orioles in 2019.

He last played in the big leagues with the Cubs in 2023, batting .234 with four homers over 79 games.

Following Wednesday’s 5-0 victory over the Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t look like a last-place team during a 6-0 homestand in which they outscored the New York Mets and St. Louis 43-4. The Pirates are 38-50 — including 26-24 since Don Kelly was promoted from bench coach on May 8 after manager Derek Shelton was fired.