Just a tiny two-game series. That changed everything. Not really. It just seemed like it. What the San Diego Padres did the past two days did set the season back on a winning course, but it was in actuality merely a representation of the ebbs and flows of a long season.

Elias Díaz homered and scored twice, and Fernando Tatis Jr. had three hits for the San Diego Padres, who beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 Wednesday for a two-game sweep. The Padres leapfrogged the Giants into second place behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ultra-competitive NL West.

Elias Diaz homered, singled and scored twice to help the San Diego Padres complete a two-game sweep of the visiting San Francisco Giants with a 5-3 victory on Wednesday afternoon.