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SAN DIEGO -- Paul Goldschmidt homered twice, including a go-ahead, two-run shot in the sixth inning, and Zack Greinke pitched six strong innings to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night and avoid a three-game sweep.The Diamondbacks pulled into a tie with the Padres for fourth place in the NL West at 64-88.Goldschmidts 22nd and 23rd homers provided all of Arizonas runs and came off rookie Luis Perdomo (8-10). Goldschmidt hit a solo shot into the seats in left field with two outs in the first for a 1-0 lead, and a go-ahead, two-run homer into the Padres bullpen in left-center with two outs in the sixth.Greinke (13-7) held San Diego to two runs and six hits while striking out seven and walking four. He improved to 8-1 lifetime against the Padres.His only big mistake was allowing Wil Myers two-run homer to left-center with two outs in the third for a 2-1 lead, his 27th. Jon Jay was aboard on a walk.Daniel Hudson earned a four-out save, his fourth.Perdomo allowed three runs and five hits in seven innings, struck out two and walked none.Before the game, the Padres called up four of their top prospects. Two made their major league debuts as pinch-hitters in the seventh. Carlos Asuaje was punched out by Randall Delgado and Hunter Renfroe was intentionally walked by Edwin Escobar. A third, Manuel Margot, made his big league debut as a pinch-runner in the eighth.UP NEXT:Diamondbacks: Arizona is off Thursday and opens a three-game series at Baltimore on Friday, with RHP Shelby Miller (2-12, 6.90) scheduled to oppose Yovani Gallardo (5-8, 5.77).Padres: LHP Christian Friedrich (5-10, 4.78) is scheduled to start for the Padres in the opener of a four-game series against the San Francisco Giants, who are trying to stay alive in the wild card race. The Giants are scheduled to counter with Jeff Samardzija (11-10, 3.97) Kenny Golladay Jersey . 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Los Angeles star goalie survived those perilous gymnastics with no problem, and he eventually backstopped the Kings to a skid-snapping win. Quick stopped 27 shots in his return from a 24-game injury absence, Jeff Carter scored the tiebreaking goal with 7:55 to play, and the Kings snapped their five-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.Andy Murray will be joined by some of the worlds top players at the Monte Carlo Masters as the clay season begins on Sky Sports starting Monday. A ninth trophy for Nadal?Spains Rafael Nadal has a sensational record in the event having won an Open Era-record eight successive titles between 2005 and 2012. The Spaniards first Monte Carlo title win was against Guillermo Coria in 2005, but it has now been three years since he last won the tournament and has battled injury, form and confidence problems since his last triumph. Rafael Nadal will hope for a successful return to his favoured surface During his spectacular run, he won 46 successive matches including three finals against Roger Federer and two against Djokovic, but he lost his last final with the Serb here in 2013 and the formidable world No 1 is the defending champion as well as the winner of the first major and first two Masters events of the year.Who has defeated the King of the Clay?Nadal lost to Djokovic in both 2013 and 2015 while he suffered defeat to David Ferrer in 2014. Djokovic and Nadal cannot meet until the final after Saturdays draw His last final came in 2013 when Djokovic fought against the pain of an ankle injury to record victory.In 2015, Djokovic went on to have one of his best years, defeating Nadal in Monte Carlo again, this time in a comfortable 6-3 6-3 semi-final success. 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Andy Murray will hope to put his disappointment in Miami behind him Murray has never won in Monte Carlo and could face clay-court specialist Guido Pella in a difficult second round encounter,Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer and Milos Raonic all make up the field for the first clay-court Masters event of 2016.Watch the Monte Carlo Masters live on Sky Sports between April 10-17. Coverage begins on Monday at 9.30am on Sky Sports 1 HD.By purchasing a Sky Sports Day Pass for £6.99 or Sky Sports Week Pass for £10.99, you can enjoy access to all seven Sky Sports channels and watch on a TV with a NOW TV Box or on a range of devices. Also See: Federers Monte Carlo return Tennis on Sky Master of his trade Djokovic wins in Miami ' ' '