Gavin Sheets homered twice and JP Sears earned his first win with the San Diego Padres in their 8-1 rout of the visiting San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.

Sears (8-10), making his second start with San Diego after being traded there along with closer Mason Miller at the trade deadline on July 31, gave up only four hits and a run in six innings. Sears walked one and fanned two.

Landen Roupp (7-7) absorbed the loss and suffered an injury to boot. Roupp permitted five runs on five hits over 2 1/3 innings, walking two and striking out two. He left the game in the bottom of the third after Ramon Laureano smoked a 95.7 mph liner off the back of his left knee.

Sheets accounted for half of the Padres offense with two swings. In the second inning, he lined his career-high 16th homer an es

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