The San Francisco Giants lived and died by the home run ball in their 7-6 loss against the San Diego Padres.

Mason Miller picked up his 36th save of the year on Saturday as he once again dominated the Giants in the ninth inning, ending any hope of a potential comeback.

After losing 7-5 the night prior, game two produced a very similar result.

The Giants jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, only for the Padres to score in six straight innings to take a commanding 7-3 lead going into the eighth inning.

San Francisco plated three runs in the bottom of the eighth, but that's all they could get, and they've now fallen to 62-87 while the Padres remain in the playoff race at 80-68.

It comes as absolutely no surprise that Rafael Devers was one of the Giants to hit a home run in this game, but the big surprise came from Drew Cavanaugh.

The 24-year-old rookie finally hit his first career home run, and he did so with no one on and no one out in the eighth inning.

Cavanaugh sparked a three-run inning as his leadoff bomb turned into a Christian Koss single, and then Drew Gilbert joined the party with a home run of his own.

The Giants scored those three runs in just seven pitches against Bradgley Rodriguez, and he was quickly pulled after facing the minimum.

Michael King did ace things by improving to 11-9 this season. King lasted seven innings, though he did allow a pair of homers himself.

Devers hit a two-run shot in the first inning, and then Shay Whitcomb hit his fourth of the season in the second.

Every team knows they're not set up for success if they're allowing at least one run to score in the second through seventh inning, and that's exactly what happened to the Giants in this one.

The Padres were able to secure their 80th win of the year thanks to Cesar Perdomo, who allowed five earned runs on 10 hits in just 4.2 innings.

Perdomo officially picked up his first loss in the majors, and then he was followed by Joel Kuhnel, who gave up a solo homer.

This pitching staff walked more batters (six) than they struck out (four), so that's yet another thing to improve on as this season is finally coming to an end.