Overtime finally pays off for Padres

SAN DIEGO -- After more than 17 1/2 hours and 59 innings, Tadahito Iguchi and the San Diego Padres finally won an extra-inning game.

Iguchi hit a home run off Yusmeiro Petit with one out in the 13th inning to lift the Padres to an 8-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday and end a five-game skid.

San Diego had lost all of its previous three games this season that went extra innings. The Padres played extra innings for the third time in five home games, including a 22-inning loss to Colorado on April 17 that lasted 6 hours 16 minutes. This one went 4:02.

San Diego had also lost at San Francisco on April 8 in an 11-inning game that went 3:24, and a 13-inning affair against the Giants that lasted 3:51 on Wednesday.

Iguchi’s homer came on a full-count pitch from Petit, and was his first since August, when he played for Philadelphia. The home run was also San Diego’s first hit since the sixth inning as it won for only the second time in 11 games.