The Arizona Diamondbacks finally got their first look at San Diego right hander Mat Latos, and they couldn’t have liked what they saw.

The 22-year old scattered just two hits over 6 shutout innings while striking out six and was staked with plenty of run support as the Padres salvaged the final game of the three-game series at Chase Field 10-1. Latos pushed his record to 12-5 while lowering his season ERA to 2.36.

“His record speaks for itself, he’s everything he was brought up to be,” D-backs’ interim manager Kirk Gibson said following the game. “He threw the ball very well and we had to keep it close to try and overcome him and we were unable to do that.”

Latos allowed a one-out double to Stephen Drew in the bottom of the 2nd, and stranded him right there after striking out Gerardo Parra and getting his counterpart, Diamondbacks’ starter Joe Saunders to ground out to short. Latos walked two batters in the first and two more in the third, but was never really in any trouble. Miguel Montero managed to get the 2nd hit off of Latos, a 2-out single in the 6th–breaking a string of nine in a row that had been retired.

The Padres struck in the 2nd inning, getting an rbi single from Scott Hairston that knocked in Chase Headley. San Diego got another single run in the 3rd on a solo homer by leadoff man Jerry Hairston Jr. That’s all they would need, but the Padres tacked on four in the 5th, 2 in the 7th, and two more in the 9th on a 2-run blast by Chris Denorfia off of D-backs’ reliever Rafael Rodriguez, who made his Arizona debut.

On the flip side, Saunders struggled for the first time in a Diamondbacks’ uniform, allowing 6 runs (5 earned) over 6 innings. He took the loss to fall to 1-1 as a D-back.

“I thought my command was off,” Saunders said. “Couldn’t really throw strike one, and that’s what really hurt me.” Saunders started 10 of the 27 San Diego hitters he faced with a ball.

Despite the loss, the homestand has to be considered a success for the Diamondbacks. Arizona won 4 of the 7 games against the Nationals and Padres, and took two out of three from the team with the best record in the National League.

“It was better, certainly it was better,” Gibson said. “We would have like to have won today, and there was probably another game in the Washington series we could have won, but we’ll keep striving to get better. But we played better baseball and better situational baseball.”

Third baseman Mark Reynolds agreed. “It was definitely a positive homestand,” he said. “We obviously wold have liked to have swept them today and played the spoiler a little bit more, but we got two out of three.”

Reynolds was back in the lineup after missing three games following a beaning suffered Tuesday night against Washington. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, and said there was definitely an adjustment needed to get his timing back. “It seemed like things were going ninety miles an hour in my first at-bat,” Reynolds said. “But I settled down, and kinda got that whole ‘ball out of my face’ thing out of my head and tried to relax and just have some good ab’s.”