SAN DIEGO – When last the Braves beat the Padres at Petco Park, Kris Medlen was Atlanta’s starting pitcher, Chipper Jones and Dan Uggla drove in the game’s only two runs, and Julio Teheran was a prospect in Triple-A, having been up and down a few times with the big-league team.
Nearly 46 months later, the Braves finally won again at the ballpark in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp District.
Teheran pitched eight strong innings Wednesday afternoon in a 4-2 win as the Braves avoided being swept in a three-game series and six-game Southern California trip. They stopped losing streaks of six games overall, six games on the road and six against the Padres, as well as a 12-game skid at Petco since late-August 2012.