Jackson Merrill broke out of a slump with two home runs off All-Star Zack Wheeler as the Padres won their second straight game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Manny Machado 's seventh-inning sacrifice fly led the San Diego Padres to a 5-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night. With the defeat, the Phillies have lost four of their past five games and dropped out of first place in the National League East, falling a half-game behind the New York Mets.

The Philadelphia Phillies, who made it a priority to make sure that ace Zack Wheeler wasn’t going to hit free agency in a year, signed him to a three-year, $126 million contract extension Monday ...