SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The San Diego Padres are getting pretty good at

late-inning rallies.

Rookie Khalil Greene hit an RBI triple to cap a three-run eighth

inning that carried the Padres to a 5-4 win over the Montreal Expos

on Wednesday night.

It was the fifth time this season the Padres won in their last

at-bat, four of them at home.

"That was a great comeback," manager Bruce Bochy said. "It

wasn't real pretty, but guys were hustling. Greenie came through

with a huge one."

Ramon Hernandez came racing around from first on Greene's triple

to right-center off Luis Ayala (0-4). Hernandez had reached on an

RBI grounder, the second straight close play at first. Jay Payton

hit an infield single to drive in the other run, although replays

showed he was out by a step.

"To be a successful team, wins like that are important,"

Greene said. "To know that when you're down, that you have a

chance at any time to still come back and win and be confident in

the late innings. So far throughout the season, we've done that."

Brian Giles, who started the rally with a leadoff single off

Rigo Beltran, also hit a solo homer in the fifth.

Antonio Osuna (1-0) pitched the eighth for the win, which put

the Padres four games above .500 for the first time since May 25,

2001. Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his second save in as

many nights, and fifth in six chances.

Montreal's Jamey Carroll had a two-run double among his

career-high four hits. He finished 4-for-5. Andy Fox hit a solo

homer in the first, and the Expos -- baseball's worst-hitting team --

set a season high with 13 hits.

But the Expos were frustrated again.

"I mean, four hits or no hits, it doesn't matter. We lost,"

Carroll said. "We're hitting the ball. I'm not sure how many we

had, but we were sure swinging the bats better and we still came

away with a loss. It's frustrating."

Manager Frank Robinson added: "We scored enough runs to win

tonight. We just didn't get the job done in the eighth inning.

That's my fault. I'll take that one myself because I didn't put the

right people out there to get the job done."

Montreal came in batting just .201 with 36 runs scored after

being shut out Tuesday night for the sixth time this season.

Can it get any worse?

"Stick around," Robinson said. "Yeah, it can get worse. It

can get better. I hope that it will get better before it gets

worse."

The Expos' three-run rally in the sixth chased starter Adam

Eaton and erased a 2-1 lead that San Diego built on homers by Phil

Nevin and Giles.

Eaton failed to get an out in the sixth. He allowed singles to

Juan Rivera and Brian Schneider, then hit Valentino Pascucci on the

left shoulder to load the bases. Endy Chavez singled up the middle

to tie the score at 2 and chase Eaton.

Scott Linebrink came on and got pinch-hitter Ron Calloway to fly

out to right, but Carroll hit a grounder down the line past diving

third baseman Sean Burroughs for a 4-2 lead.

Eaton gave up 10 hits and four runs, struck out five and walked

none.

Nevin homered in the fourth, and Giles in the fifth -- both to

right-center, the deepest part of the park, and both off Claudio

Vargas, who allowed two runs and four hits in five innings. Vargas

also got his first big league hit, a single to right-center in the

third.Game notes
The crowd of 24,079 was the smallest in 12 games at Petco

Park. ... SS Orlando Cabrera's streak of 151 straight starts ended,

but he replaced Fox starting the bottom of the seventh, for his

190th straight game. ... Expos RHP John Patterson was put on the

15-day disabled list a day after straining a groin muscle. The

Expos recalled right-hander T.J. Tucker from Triple-A Edmonton, who

will pitch in long relief while Sun-woo Kim will start in

Patterson's spot Sunday in Los Angeles. ... Bochy is impressed with

the hot start by Mark Loretta. "We haven't seen this kind of

consistency since Tony Gwynn," Bochy said.