"He's a big-time player," manager Bud Black said after the Padres won their second in a row and third in their last four overall. "And big-time players do big-time things."
Upton makes a habit of it against the team that selected him No. 1 overall in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft and traded him away to the Braves after much discord on Jan. 24, 2013. Including the homer and RBI single in the eighth inning that gave the Padres a short-lived 4-2 lead, Upton now has driven in 15 runs in the 18 games he's played against the D-backs in three-plus seasons for two different teams.