SAN FRANCISCO — The Padres’ first hit of consequence on Tuesday tied the game in the ninth inning.

Their second served as the game-winner in the 10th.

A second straight extra-innings victory over the Giants had an even wilder finish than the first one.

The deciding run was driven in by Jake Cronenworth, who ripped a two-out single off Spencer Bivens through the right side that scored automatic runner Jackson Merrill.

Jeremiah Estrada worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the 10th to preserve the 3-2 victory.

The Padres got the opportunity because Manny Machado hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the ninth inning to tie the game 2-2.

This all came after rookie Ryan Bergert acquitted himself nicely in his first major league start and Sean Reynolds worked a career-high three innings without allowing a run. Yuki Matsui worked a scoreless ninth.

Bergert went five innings, mostly spreading out six hits and two walks besides paying for Heliot Ramos’ two-run homer in the third inning.

Reynolds then kept the Padres close enough.

Brandon Lockridge reached on an infield single with one out in the ninth, and two-out walks by Luis Arraez and Fernando Tatis Jr. had loaded the bases.

Machado, who was already 3-for-3 with a walk, then dropped a single into shallow left field before Merrill struck out.

The late heroics, coming a night after the Padres won 1-0 in 10 innings, were once again just enough for an offense mired in a malaise that began in mid-May.

For the fourth time in five games and 11th time in their past 16 games, an opposing starting pitcher turned in a quality start against the Padres.

This time it was Landen Roupp, who followed Logan Webb’s eight scoreless innings against the Padres on Monday with 6⅓ scoreless innings.

The Padres beat both pitchers at the end of April. That was back when they were averaging more than the 2.9 runs a game they have put up over their past 17 games.

The Giants entered Tuesday averaging two runs over their previous 15 games. They had not scored more than four runs in any game in that span, the longest such streak by any Giants team since 1976.

The Padres had baserunners in seven of the first eight innings Tuesday. But they were hitless in six at-bats with runners in scoring position to that point, failing to score after having men at first and second with one out in the fourth and first and second with no outs in the seventh and eighth.

The offensive impotence is an issue that becomes more troubling the longer it goes on.

But the Padres also have some depth concerns with their starting rotation. And Bergert at least made a positive second impression.

While Tuesday was his first start, he spent two weeks working out of the Padres’ bullpen from late April to early May. In that stint, his first in the major leagues, Bergert allowed one hit over four scoreless appearances of an inning apiece. He threw strikes at a 61% rate and did not walk a batter.

He then went back to being a starter at Triple-A before being called up to make Tuesday’s start.

The sixth-round pick in 2021 retired the Giants in order in the first before getting in trouble by issuing the first two walks of his career to start the second.

His first walk was not drawn easily, as Matt Chapman fouled off a pair of two-strike pitches before taking the eight pitch he saw from Bergert outside. His second walk was simply a matter of Bergert yanking four pitches badly outside to the right-handed-hitting Willy Adames.

After a visit from pitching coach Ruben Niebla, Bergert escaped the inning in six pitches — getting a double-play grounder and a ground out, both hit to shortstop Xander Bogaerts.

It was the fourth time in the two games in this series that the Giants had a runner in scoring position with no outs and failed to score.

They would not come up empty in that circumstance in the next inning.

Patrick Bailey’s leadoff double was followed by a strikeout of Casey Schmitt before Ramos drove a 1-2 slider at the knees and in the center of the plate 421 feet to straightaway center field to put the Giants up 2-0.

A well-executed relay later in the inning kept it from being a 3-0 advantage.

After getting the second out, Bergert surrendered a single to Wilmer Flores before Chapman lined a double to the corner in left field that Tyler Wade ran 91 feet to grab. He threw to Machado, who was just beyond the infield dirt when he got the ball and fired an 88 mph throw on one hop directly to catcher Martín Maldonado’s glove in front of the plate to get Flores.

Bergert allowed a two-out single in a nine-pitch fourth inning and finished the fifth in 14 pitches after yielding a lead-off single. He finished the night having thrown 89 pitches.

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