Scott Hairston hit 45 of his 106 career homers during his four years in San Diego. The first two-homer game of his career arrived on this date — Aug. 3 — in 2007, a week after the Padres bought low on a right-handed power bat for a playoff push.
The price: Minor league pitcher Leo Rosales and his broken pitching hand.
The payoff: Hairston’s first homer as a Padre tied the game in the eighth inning and his second won the game in the 10th, a walk-off job that beat the Diamondbacks — the team that traded him — at Petco Park.