Bill Center, longtime sportswriter for U-T San Diego, is an employee of the Padres.
Left fielder Nick Torres fell a single short of a cycle in his second game with high Single-A Lake Elsinore, and right fielder Nick Schulz connected on his sixth homer in five games, as five players homered for the Storm in their 11-7 win at Stockton Sunday.
Elsewhere:
• Right-handed starting pitcher Colin Rea retired the only two hitters he faced with a strikeout in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game to start the events leading up to the All-Star Game presented by T-Mobile in Cincinnati.