Kyle Tucker and Dalton Rushing hit homers as

SAN DIEGO — One after another, Kyle Tucker and Dalton Rushing broke up their offensive slumps with home runs.

The Dodgers’ sixth-inning rally, en route to a 15-3 victory against the Padres at Petco Park Saturday, featured blasts from the 2 hitters who needed particular person victories at the plate.

Tucker, who entered Saturday with just a .700 OPS, had gone 4 straight video games without a hit. Rushing went hitless in the earlier 5, in a tough seven-week stretch.

“It’s tough,” Tucker said of his uncharacteristically slow offensive start. “You just have to try and stay positive as much as you can. … We’re going to enjoy the win, but you’ve got another game tomorrow, and you’ve gotta move on to that. Anything that happened yesterday, you’ve got to move on, do your best at that, move on to the next game, and try to improve and try to help your team win.”

Tucker and Rushing’s home runs began the sunflower seed showers in a nine-run inning, which included a home run by Mookie Betts. Four of the runs scored in the sixth had been unearned.

The Dodgers took full benefit of the Padres’ defensive errors to jump-start their offense.

In the second inning, Max Muncy hit a line drive into the nook, and Padres proper fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. dove after it. But he missed the catch, and the ball bounced behind him. Muncy legged out a triple. And that put him in place to rating simply on Tommy Edman’s double to the center-field warning monitor for the first run of the sport.

The Padres evened the rating with a Gavin Sheets’ solo home run off Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who’d go on to restrict the Padres to two runs through six innings.

Shaky protection, however, got here back to hang-out the Padres the next inning.

With Freddie Freeman standing on second base, after a leadoff double against Padres right-hander Randy Vásquez, Muncy hit a sharp grounder to second baseman Will Wagner, who muffed the play. Freeman raced around the bases, scoring on a close play at the plate.

Then Edman, who’s been swinging a sizzling bat since making his season debut last week, tripled to drive in Muncy.

That’s when Tucker, who went three for 5 with 4 RBIs Saturday, stepped up to the plate. He received a nine-pitch battle, sending a cutter over the right-field fence.

“Kind of been looking for it all year,” Tucker said. “I just kind of caught the ball at the right point of contact. I didn’t really stay through it great, but I put a decent enough swing on it, got it to work out.”

Rushing was next, and also went long in a two-strike rely.

The Dodgers stored extending the inning, with two walks and three more hits, including Betts’ three-run homer off Padres reliever Ron Marinaccio. It was Betts’ third home run in as many video games.

The Padres chipped away at the lead with an RBI single from Sheets off Yamamoto in the sixth and another run against Dodgers reliever Kyle Hurt, who gave up two hits and issued two walks in one-third of an inning.

But the lead the Dodgers compiled in the sixth inning, plus the 4 runs they tacked on in the eighth with Muncy’s infield single, Edman’s bases-loaded groundout, and Tucker’s opposite-field single, was too steep to overcome.

By the ninth inning, both groups had place gamers pitching.

Injury update

The Dodgers hope to activate Teoscar Hernández (strained left hamstring) from the 10-day injured listing on Monday, supervisor Dave Roberts said before Saturday’s sport.

Hernández homered in all three of his triple-A rehab video games, coming into Saturday.

“Triple-A pitching is not comparative to big league pitching, I think we all know that,” Roberts said. “But if he’s healthy, he’s an easy guy to bet on.”

Catcher Will Smith, on the other hand, has not returned to baseball actions since receiving an injection to deal with his neck injury.

“I think we’re all surprised how long it’s taken,” Roberts said. “I hope he’s back before the All-Star break. But the more time he’s off, he’s going to have to play some [rehab] games. So that kind of cuts into the time of return to us. So I don’t really know. I don’t want to add any pressure to him. I want him to be healthy and then once he’s healthy we can have that conversation.”