Padres, packing a punch, welcome Cardinals

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Six games into a 162-game season, the San Diego Padres are showing the type of offensive punch they so often lacked last year.

Sunday's 13-4 rout of the San Francisco Giants marked their second double-figure game and gave them 45 runs, an average of 7.5 runs per game. They collected five doublesand two homers in the first three innings alone.

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