San Diego manager Andy Green watched Kirby Yates, his All-Star closer, do what he has done much of the year on Monday night, and when the dust settled on a 3-2 Padres victory, Green sprinkled one word throughout his postgame conversation: clutch.

Yates surrendered three consecutive ninth-inning hits for a run but worked out of a jam by getting a fielder's choice at home and striking out Cincinnati slugger Eugenio Suarez with the bases loaded to seal his third save in three games.

"He's clutch; that's three days in a row," Green said. "(Sunday), even though it was 1-2-3 (against the Phillies), it was 27 pitches, and every at-bat was a fight.