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SAN DIEGO — Giants manager Bruce Bochy was not surprised to learn that the Giants’ six stolen bases Sunday tied the San Francisco-era franchise record.

“Yeah! Watch out!” he said, heavy on the sarcasm. “We’re not that type of club, but we should be able to steal more bases. We’re working on other ways to get runs across.”

The Giants worked it to perfection in the 11th inning, scoring the tiebreaking run on a suicide squeeze for a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. Emmanuel Burriss raced home on catcher Chris Stewart’s bunt, enabling the Giants to dash out of Petco Park having won three of four.

As endings go, it sure beats penalty kicks.

Stewart made an impact in the bottom of the 11th, too. After Brian Wilson walked the first two batters, Stewart sprang from behind the plate to field Kyle Phillips’ sacrifice-bunt try and throw on target to third. Pablo Sandoval, not satisfied to record one out, threw a bullet across the diamond to double up Phillips.

“A tiny momentum shift,” said Wilson, also heavy on the sarcasm. “I’m never picky about how we win, and that was pretty phenomenal.”

Wilson remarked that the six stolen bases are “not something I’ve seen us do very often.” That’s because the bearded wonder was a smooth-cheeked kindergartner on Sept. 8, 1987, the last time it happened. Kevin Mitchell stole three, Dave Henderson stole two, and Chris Speier had one against the Houston Astros.

And this time?

“I

had one of ‘em,” catcher Eli Whiteside said. “Well, I’ll be damned.”

It was a back-and-forth game, if not a classic. Or, as Bochy put it, “It’s one of those games you look back and say, ‘All’s well that ends well.’ We certainly made a couple mistakes out there.”

Whiteside made the biggest in the sixth inning as the Padres took a 3-2 lead on Orlando Hudson’s two-run single. The rally began when Everth Cabrera struck out but reached first base on Matt Cain’s pitch in the dirt that Whiteside secured. The catcher said he thought Cabrera foul-tipped the pitch, which is why he turned to show the baseball to plate umpire Marvin Hudson instead of throwing to first.

“We were helpless. We were yelling as loud as we could to throw to first base,” Bochy said. “No question, you know how hard he would’ve taken this. He was really hard on himself when he realized what happened.”

Said Whiteside: “It didn’t end up the way it should have. I should’ve thrown it no matter what. That did hurt us, but I’m just glad it didn’t cost us the game.”

Whiteside took charge of his own redemption after reaching base in the seventh. He noted that Mat Latos, the heel of last year’s N.L. West soap opera, was slow to the plate. So Whiteside stole second base and positioned himself to score the tying run on Andres Torres’ single up the middle.

A half-dozen players mentioned it: The Padres play the thief and eke out runs all the time. Why can’t the Giants do it, too?

“That was beautiful — awesome to watch guys get those jumps,” said Cain, who struck out nine in six innings. “It’s something as an offense we could keep doing.”

Burriss started the rally with a one-out single off Chad Qualls. The Padres, sensing the speedy infielder would run, pitched out on the 0-1 delivery to Stewart. It didn’t matter. Burriss had the base stolen easily and went to third when Phillips’ throw sailed into center field.

With the squeeze play an obvious call, the Padres pitched out again. But there was nothing on. With the count now 2-1, Bochy sprang the trap, and Stewart executed it perfectly.

“We had the right guy up there to get a bunt down, and we had speed at third,” Bochy said. “At that point, it’s a good play. If they pitch out, they’ve got you. If they don’t, they can’t defend it.”

Nate Schierholtz and Burriss each stole two bases — the first time all season a Giant had multiple steals in a game.

For more on the Giants, see Andrew Baggarly’s Extra Baggs blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs.

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Rockies starting pitcher Clayton Mortensen delivers against the Padres on Monday in San Diego. Mortensen did not allow a run in six innings. (Lenny Ignelzi, The Associated Press)

SAN DIEGO — One night last season at Coors Field, Carlos Gonzalez did something that seemed straight out of a black-and-white movie. With his mother in the stands, he finished a cycle with a walkoff home run. That’s a favorite CarGo story. Everyone who saw him last year had one. This year, everybody has a cure for his problems.

While Gonzalez’s nickname suggests progress, manager Jim Tracy could no longer go forward with the same Rockies lineup. Before Monday night’s game at Petco Park, Tracy shook the order like a snow globe, shifting Gonzalez to the top, Todd Helton to third and Sanity, he figured, to his senses.

Though few would deem it a rousing success, anything that doesn’t end up in a loss these days can’t be dismissed out of hand. The Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 behind Clayton Mortensen’s terrific outing and critical hits by Troy Tulowitzki and Seth Smith.

The Rockies still bore a closer resemblance to the 1968 Yankees than the 1927 bunch, but the results were baby steps for a team trying to crawl away from one of the worst months in team history.

“Will it work out? I guarantee you this: This is a very good ballclub,” Tracy said. “And the best of it has not even come to close to showing up. If I have to keep doing different things to get that out, I will.”

The Gonzalez shift had an interesting side effect. It jump-started Chris Nelson, who hit second. Never the owner of regular at-bats, Nelson has an opportunity. He belted two doubles, scoring in the first inning on an infield single by Tulowitzki, one of the few hitters remaining in the spot.

However, third-base coach Rich Dauer and Nelson’s aggressiveness in the sixth nearly sabotaged a win. Nelson was thrown out trying to stretch a leadoff double into a triple in the sixth at time when the Rockies’ runs are at a premium.

Smith added an RBI triple in the ninth, followed by Chris Iannetta’s run-scoring single.

Mortensen, pitching

to stay in the rotation because of the recent two-start cameo by Juan Nicasio, delivered his best performance. Using a particularly effective sinker on the hands of right-handed batters, Morten-sen limited the Padres to five hits over six innings.

The bullpen’s night was memorable. Rex Brothers made his big-league debut, recording two outs in the seventh and reaching 97 mph on his fastball. Rafael Betancourt reached a milestone with his 500th appearance, a vintage outing that lasted longer than the last day of school.

He retired two Padres before Matt Reynolds doused a bases-loaded situation by fanning Alberto Gonzalez.

“It means a lot to get 500 because something like this can only happen because my teammates put me in that position,” Betancourt said.

Gonzalez did not have a good night, striking out to lead off the game, while struggling with pitch recognition. But he also threw out Jorge Cantu at third base with a laser throw in the fourth inning. Cantu was trying to advance on a flyball, and was an easy mark for Gonzalez in his first game in center field this season.

“There’s more work and more running to do, obviously,” Gonzalez said. “But as I have said, it if makes the team better, then I am fine with it.”

Troy E. Renck: 303-954-1301 or trenck@denverpost.com

Looking ahead

TUESDAY: Rockies at Padres, 8:05 p.m., Root

For all his

Padres right fielder Chris Denorfia makes a diving attempt but can not make the catch on a triple by the Rockies’ Chris Nelson during the first inning Monday in San Diego. (Lenny Ignelzi, The Associated Press)

issues this season — hip flexor, strained groin, torn thumb cuticle — Rockies right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez (1-5, 4.98 ERA) has been dominant on the road. Jimenez has pitched back-to-back complete games away from Denver, allowing a combined six hits. Also, his fastball command continues to improve and he is 7-3 against the Padres. The bad news is that the Rockies have scored just eight runs in his four road starts. Padres right-hander Tim Stauffer (1-4, 3.99) hasn’t won at home this year (0-3, 4.41). And he hasn’t enjoyed facing the Rockies’ Troy Tulowitzki (3-for-8, two walks). Troy E. Renck, The Denver Post

Upcoming pitching matchups

Wednesday: Rockies’ Aaron Cook (season debut) vs. Padres’ Dustin Moseley (2-6, 3.00 ERA), 4:35 p.m., Root

Thursday: Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw (6-3, 3.05) vs. Rockies’ Jhoulys Chacin (6-4, 3.19), 6:40 p.m., Root

Friday: Dodgers’ Chad Billingsley (5-4, 3.70) vs. Rockies’ Jason Hammel (3-5, 3.66), 6:40 p.m., Root

Saturday: Dodgers’ Ted Lilly (4-5, 4.13) vs. Rockies’ Clayton Mortensen (2-3, 3.20), 6:10 p.m., Root

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San Diego	ab	r	h	bi	Kansas City	ab	r	h	bi
Maybin cf	4	1	1	0	Dyson cf	2	0	0	0
Durango cf	0	0	0	0	Cain cf	2	1	2	0
Hoffpauir 2b	1	1	1	0	Aviles 3b	2	2	2	0
Salazar 2b	2	0	0	0	Moustakas 3b	2	0	1	1
Headley 3b	3	0	2	1	Butler 1b	3	0	0	0
Guzman 3b	2	0	0	0	Hosmer 1b	1	0	1	0
Hawpe 1b	2	0	1	1	Robinson dh	4	1	2	2
Forsythe 1b	0	0	0	0	Gordon lf	0	0	0	0
Hundley c	3	0	1	0	Robinson lf	1	0	0	0
Valdez ss	1	0	0	0	Maier rf	3	0	1	1
Zaun dh	3	0	0	0	Blanco rf	0	0	0	0
Parrino ph-dh	1	0	0	0	Pena c	3	0	0	0
Denorfia lf	2	0	1	0	Pina c	1	0	0	0
Baxter lf	2	0	1	0	Getz 2b	1	0	0	0
Cunningham rf	2	0	0	0	Giavotella 2b	1	0	0	0
Hunter rf	2	1	1	0	Escobar ss	2	0	1	0
Cabrera ss	2	0	0	0	Bianchi ss	2	0	0	0
Phillips ph-c	2	0	2	1	Â	Â	Â	Â	Â
J.Darnell pr	0	0	0	0	Â	Â	Â	Â	Â
Totals	34	3	11	3	Totals	30	4	10	4

San Diego	101	001	000	â€”	3	11	1
Kansas City	001	020	01x	â€”	4	10	0

E: Castro (1). DP: San Diego 3, Kansas City 2. LOB: San Diego 9, Kansas City 12. 2B: C.Hunter (1), K.Phillips (1), L.Cain (1), C.Robinson (1), Maier (1). 3B: C.Robinson (1). SB: Hawpe (1), Denorfia (1), Dyson (1), Aviles (2), Hosmer (1). CS: Baxter (1), Aviles (1), J.Giavotella (1).

San Diego	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Latos	1 1/3	0	0	0	4	0
Kontos	1 2/3	3	1	1	2	0
Poreda	1	0	0	0	0	1
Castro	1	3	2	2	1	1
Bass	1	1	0	0	1	2
Flores	1	1	0	0	1	0
Hefner L,0-1	1	2	1	1	1	0
Kansas City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Hochevar	2	4	1	1	0	1
Crow	2	3	1	1	1	2
Montgomery	1	0	0	0	2	0
Jeffress	1	2	1	1	0	1
Texeira	1	0	0	0	1	0
Chavez W,1-0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Hernandez S,1-1	1	1	0	0	1	0
Hochevar	2	4	1	1	0	1
Crow	2	3	1	1	1	2

Blown save:Castro (1), Jeffress (1).

Umpires: Home, Chris Guccione; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Angel Campos; Third, Clint Fagan. Announced attendance: 2,015.

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As expected, the Padres have decided to non-tender both Tony Gwynn Jr. and Scott Hairston

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have agreed to a one-year contract with outfielder Chris Denorfia.