Over the last few seasons the Padres have not exactly been known as a team with a record-breaking offense. Not the good kind of records, anyway. Scoring runs has been a challenge for San Diego over the years.

Well, thanks to Adam Rosales' third inning home run Wednesday afternoon, the Padres are two games shy of tying an MLB record. San Diego has now homered in 25 straight games, which is tied for the second longest such streak in baseball history.

Here is Rosales' home run. Brett Wallace and Alex Dickerson went deep later in the team's win over the Blue Jays (SD 8, TOR 4):

Dickerson has now homered in four straight games himself. Thanks to the Melvin Upton Jr. trade, Dickerson will get a chance to play left field everyday and show the Padres what he can do. So far he's showing the club he has some real pop.

Here are the longest home run streaks in baseball history:

  1. 2002 Rangers: 27 games from August 8 to September 9.
  2. 2016 Padres: 25 games and counting, starting June 28.
  3. 1998 Braves: 25 games from April 18 to May 13.
  4. 1994 Tigers: 25 games from May 25 to June 19.
  5. 1941 Yankees: 25 games from June 1 to June 29.

The Padres tied the 1998 Braves for the NL record on Wednesday. No other teams have homered in as many as 25 straight games and only 16 other clubs have homered in as many as 20 straight games.

Ten different players have homered for the Padres during his 25-game stretch. Who's hit the most? Rookie Ryan Schimpf, of course. He has nine. Matt Kemp is next with seven. The Padres have hit 42 homers total in the 25 games.

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The Padres have tied an NL record by going deep in 25 consecutive games. USATSI

The series with the Blue Jays is over and the Padres will enjoy an off-day Thursday. After that, they open a three-game series with the Reds at home. Cincinnati's pitches have, by far, the highest home run rate allowed in baseball at 1.70 HR/9. The Twins are a distant second at 1.38 HR/9.

It sure looks like the Padres are in good position to tie and possibly break the consecutive games with a home run record this weekend. Now watch the Reds shut them out all three games. That would be a very baseball thing to happen.