Padres Score: San Diego Beats Braves, Soto Home Run, Tatis Jr Evening

The drought is over.. kind of.

The San Diego Padres caught a much-needed win over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday and even though they still didn't see a ton of success at the plate, Juan Soto's fourth inning bomb was more than enough.

Nick Martinez was excellent at the pitching mound for the Friars as he lasted seven innings and allowed only three hits with no runs and struck out six of Atlanta's batters.

Manny Machado was just excellent on defense the entire game and he continues to show his insane value at that third base position. Even as he works through this early season slump, he holds it down on the infield.

Take a look at this double play that started with him to take the game to the second inning.

Padres get a double play to end the first pic.twitter.com/HVI2Lraq3t

— Talking Friars (@TalkingFriars) April 19, 2023

Manny Machado's awareness is often the most impressive part of his game (even when his OPS is higher than current .595).
He just created a 5-4-5-3 play to get final two outs in top of first.
Not the greatest running by the two Braves on base. But Machado saw it & capitalized.

— Kevin Acee (@sdutKevinAcee) April 19, 2023

Ha-Seong Kim continued this is in the second inning.

Nice play by Kim! pic.twitter.com/ONUVJOVPCk

— Talking Friars (@TalkingFriars) April 19, 2023

Then things did get a little scary in the third inning as the Braves were able to load up the bases.

Austin Riley stepped up to the plate ready to drive in some runs but Martinez was not about to let that happen.

Fire us up, Nick! pic.twitter.com/XDeqCJFx5J

— Talking Friars (@TalkingFriars) April 19, 2023

And then it was Juan Soto's time to shine. The fourth inning rolled around and with all of the recent noise about his failure to garner hits and knowing that San Diego only had one run over the last three games, he came through.

Soto took Charlie Morton deep and put the Padres up 1-0.

Juan Soto is tired of the chirp. 431 foot BLAST!!! LETS GO #Padres pic.twitter.com/I4G6fKRIHX

— Borna Nazari (@thehogwatch) April 19, 2023

Juan Soto just demolished a solo home run to right centerfield.

431 feet. 109.6 MPH off the bat.

Padres lead 1-0 in the 4th.

— Sammy Levitt (@SammyLev) April 19, 2023

Machado was not about to let the Braves even think about tying the game.

He continued his stellar defense in the seventh inning.

Manny being Manny pic.twitter.com/mVgVL9JhaP

— Talking Friars (@TalkingFriars) April 19, 2023

San Diego finally shook off a three-game losing streak and even though strides still need to be made, this is great to see especially for Juan Soto. The Padres are back in action tomorrow against the Arizona Diamondbacks and Fernando Tatis Jr. will be back in action finally!