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BALTIMORE -- Not so long ago, the Padres were scuffling for victories no matter the opponent. Now a scrappy roster minus high-profile names is finding ways to win even against one of the American Leagues best. Alexi Amarista homered and doubled twice and the San Diego Padres matched their season-high with 17 hits, beating the Baltimore Orioles 8-4 Wednesday for a two-game sweep. Everth Cabrera had four hits and a walk, and Jedd Gyorko had three singles for the Padres, who are 13-6 after a 5-15 start. John Baker hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the second against Freddy Garcia (0-2), and Kyle Blanks hit a solo homer in a two-run fourth as San Diego took a 4-1 lead. "Weve been playing well the last three weeks," said Padres manager Bud Black, whose club rallied after losing three straight at Tampa Bay. "Things have turned in a good way. We had a tough series down in Tampa. I liked the way the guys responded today. It was outstanding. We got to their starter. We kept the pressure on, got a lot of base hits." Every starter had at least one hit for the Padres, including Amarista, who entered the game batting .233 in 73 at-bats. Slotted eighth in the lineup between Blanks and Baker, the lefty-swinging outfielder went the opposite way for a two-run homer off Tommy Hunter in the seventh. "Every time you have an opportunity to get in there and produce, you have to take advantage of that so you can have some more opportunities to help the team," Amarista said through a translator. J.J. Hardy and Matt Wieters homered for the Orioles off Jason Marquis (5-2), who won his fourth straight start. Manny Machado had four hits. In getting swept for the first time this season, the Orioles allowed a season-high 17 hits. Marquis allowed two runs, seven hits and four walks in five-plus innings. He has a 2.45 ERA in his last four starts. Garcia gave up four runs and seven hits in 3 2-3 innings, his shortest outing in three starts for the Orioles. "Not quite as crisp," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "We just didnt pitch well today. What did we give up, like 17 hits? It wasnt just Freddy. They had some good fortune, too, but they hit a lot of balls hard too. They came in here and swung the bats well." Baltimore loaded the bases in the first before Wieters hit an inning-ending groundout. The sinkerball-throwing Marquis also escaped damage in the second and fifth by inducing double-play grounders. "Some days youre not going to feel as good as others, but at the end of the day you have to make pitches in big situations," Marquis said. "I dont want to keep putting myself in those situations, but if you do, got to find a way." Dale Thayer relieved Marquis with two on in the sixth and retired three in a row. Bakers second-inning single was one of three straight two-out hits. The fourth inning included Blanks homer, Amaristas second double of the game and Will Venables RBI double off T.J. McFarland. "Baker, Amarista, Blanks get in the lineup, those guys want to be a part of the contribution," Black said. "Today they were." Machado has at least three hits in four of his last five games and is batting .560 (14 of 25) in that span. The Orioles finished the first quarter of the season with a 23-17 record, not that Showalter is interested in such road markers. "This is an impossible game to be perfect at," Showalter said. "Im not going to get too reflective at the . thats for the Preakness or whatever it is, where they go a quarter-mile and all that other stuff." NOTES: The Padres have four series sweeps. ... After throwing 35 pitches on Wednesday, Orioles RHP Miguel Gonzalez (blister) is expected to pitch Friday either in a simulated game or in the minors. Placed on the 15-day DL on May 4, Gonzalez is 2-2 in six starts. ... 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The three-member Indian boxing team has been given a tough draw in their respective categories at the Olympics in Rio.Shiva Thapa (56kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Vikas Krishan (75kg) would be representing India at the Olympics this year.Of the three, Vikas is the only one to get a seeding - 7th - but none of them managed to secure a first-round bye.Vikas, a former Asian games gold-medallist and World Championships bronze-medallist, will be up against 18-year-old American Charles Conwell in his opening bout on August 10.Shiva will square off against sixth seed Robeisy Ramirez of Cuba on August 9. Ramirez was the flyweight Olympic champion in 2012.Ramirez and Shiva, who is also a World Championships bronze-medallist, had faced each other in the 2010 Youth Olympics final in which the Cuban had emerged triumphant.Manoj, a former Commonwealth Games gold-medallist, will open his campaign on August 10 against Lithuanias former Youth Olympics gold-medallist Evaldas Petrauskas. Petrauskas had won a lightweight bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics.Boxing has fetched two bronze medals for India in the Olympics so far. The first came through Vijender Singh (75kg) in 2008. M C Mary Kom (51kg) added the second in 2012 when womens boxing made its Olympic debut. This time, none of the Indian women boxers could qualify for the Games.During the 2012 Olympics in London, Shiva, then 18, had becoome the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics and returned home with a forgettable first round-round loss to Oscar Valdez.ddddddddddddHe was the first to qualify for Rio among Indian boxers after reaching the final of the Asian-Oceania Olympic qualifying event in the Chinese city of Qianan in April.Shiva has an Olympic medal at the youth level as he won a silver in the 54kg weight category in 2010.Like Shiva, Vikas is ranked 6th in the world rankings.Vikas endured a controversial exit from the London Games when his pre-quarterfinal win over American Errol Spence was overturned after a video review.He took a break from the sport after that and came back to become an Asian silver-medallist. Vikas faltered twice at the 2015 World Championship and then the Asia-Oceania qualifiers before finally making the cut from the World Olympic qualifying tournament in Baku about a month before the big event.In the same event, Manoj also made the semi-finals to ensure qualification.The 29-year-old is the senior-most among the trio.Manoj had lost 20-16 to local lad Thomas Stalker, also a New Delhi Commonwealth Games champion, in his pre-quarterfinal bout four years ago.Boxing gets underway at the Riocentro Pavilion 6 in Barra da Tijuca on Saturday. ' ' '