Kennedy, subject of trade talk, pitches Padres past Marlins

Ian Kennedy hurled six innings of one-run ball Saturday as the Padres beat the Marlins. Kennedy (6-9) allowed one run, seven hits and one walk with seven strikeouts in six-plus innings to pick up his second straight win.

“It’s my third year in a row”, he said. “I’ve been in this situation before”. “Nobody’s going to ask me in the offseason what my QR or whatever was”. “It’s the first five days you are on the job and the focus is on the manager and not the players”.

When interim manager Pat Murphy paid a visit to the mound after a leadoff triple in the seventh, Cashner and his teammates told Murphy the game belonged to the right-hander. “The Alonzo pitch I was OK with, it was a split but it was not my best pitch”.

David Phelps (4-7) gave up two runs in the opening two innings and none over his final four.

“I’m tried of losing”, Phelps said.

Derek Dietrich opened the seventh with a home run, slicing the Marlins’ deficit to 2-1. He has allowed three earned runs and 11 hits in 20 innings over his last three starts while picking up two of his four victories. “To get three outs like that is huge and he’s been doing it all year”.

Martin Prado got the Marlins started in the sixth with a two-out single and went to third on a single by Yelich.

Reliever Brandon Maurer came in and stranded the tying run when Adeiny Hechavarria and Cole Gillespie grounded out to third and pinch-hitter Casey McGehee flied out.

“We got to do something, ” Murphy said. It was Kimbrel’s 27th save in 28 chances. He responded with his first home run as a Padre and added a single.

Kennedy had gone through a stretch where he dropped four of five starts before beating the Giants in his previous outing.

Kennedy escaped a jam in the first when the Marlins had runners on the corners by Michael Morse.

“I keep up to date with some stuff but it is not fun for anybody especially having a family”.

Andrew Cashner (4-10) allowed a first-inning RBI double by Justin Bour, then clamped down on the Marlins as he ended their season-best three-game road win streak. It marked the first time the Padres have hit back-to-back homers since July 27, 2013, at Arizona.

“I’ve giving up runs early and putting us in a hole”, Phelps said. The decorated Enberg, hired by the Padres in 2010, was accepting the Ford Frick Award in Cooperstown, N.Y., which is presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He has eight multi-hit efforts over the last 13 games and has hit five of his 11 homers during that span. Miami left fielder Ichiro Suzuki is hitless in 10 at-bats in the series and is 1-for-20 over his last five games. Suzuki, who is 38th on the all-time hit list, enters the final game of the set still seeking those two hits. Surgery is a possibility…. 2B Dee Gordon (dislocated left thumb) is still on schedule to take batting practice this weekend at the team’s training camp facility at Jupiter, Florida.

Padres: RHP Brandon Morrow (shoulder) was to start for Triple-A El Paso on Saturday.

Marlins: RF Giancarlo Stanton (left wrist fracture) continues to swing a bat, but has not faced pitching yet….