The San Diego Padres got the two furthest hit home runs of the season, riding the big fly a mile high to beat the Colorado Rockies 8-1 on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field and complete the series win.

Manny Machado’s first inning, 452-foot, two-run home run set the tone as the Padres (78-65) added solo home runs from Jackson Merrill, Gavin Sheets (451 feet) and Ramón Laureano. Meanwhile Dylan Cease and the bullpen kept Colorado (40-103) in the yard to snap a streak of 21 games where Brown and Gold pitchers had allowed a home run.

“Good, crisp, well played baseball games putting together all sides and all facets, taking a series and getting back to doing that because that’s what this is going to be about, winning series,” said manager Mike Shildt. “Dylan set the tone as we expect, did a really nice job — loved the sweeper — and the shutdown innings when we were able to score early, and of course Manny gets us on the board to get it started.”

It was the fourth time this season that San Diego sent four or more long balls over the wall. Despite being second-bottom in the Majors with 128 home runs, the Padres have hit 16 home runs over their last dozen games — one more than their previous best 12-game stretch when they hit 15 all the way back from April 1 to 14.

Cease made it stand up by throwing five innings and allowing the lone run on four hits with five strikeouts and two walks. It was his seventh win of the season and his first away from Petco Park.

Machado followed Luis Arraez’s one-out walk by crushing a full count changeup to the deepest part of the park in left center field for his 23rd home run of the season. It was his second over his past four games, after hitting one home run over a 31-game stretch until his solo shot against Baltimore on Sept. 2.

Then in the second inning Merrill took an elevated, away fastball just over the fence in left field for his 10th home run of the season. It was the first of a game-high three hits by Merrill, his sixth time collecting a trio of knocks this season and first since August 11.

“It’s kind of like when go to all other small fields, you’ve gotta just hone it in, hit line drives and try not too much,” Merrill said. “If you catch the ball like I did in the (second) inning it’ll go, so just be short to the ball and be easy, and that’s our mentality.”

Gavin Sheets followed suit an inning later, hammering a low changeup 451 feet to right field to continue to add to his new career high of 19 home runs this season.

The Padres pushed across two more in the fourth, with Freddy Fermin singling in Jake Cronenworth after a double to end the afternoon for Colorado starter Tanner Gordon. A Fernando Tatis Jr. single and Arraez walk against reliever Luis Peralta loaded the bases, then Machado worked a full count walk for his third RBI.

Laureano led off the fifth by hitting his 23rd home run of the season to center field off Peralta. It was the first of two runs in the inning as Merrill, who reached on a single, scored when reliever Antonio Senzatela threw wide on his ball four pitch to Fermin and it got away.

“The at bats all the way through the lineup were fantastic, we saw 211 pitches,” Shildt said, before making mention of the Padres setting a nine-inning MLB record by facing 226 pitches against the Minnesota Twins on August 30. “We’re doing a lot of good things offensively and they’re showing up a little bit more on the scoreboard.”

Adrian Morejon pitched a pair of innings, coming on with an inherited runner and nobody out in the sixth, allowing two hits and a walk. He was able to get out of a pair of runners on the corners situations by inducing a duo of double plays.

David Morgan had a pair of strikeouts in the eighth inning, and Ron Marinaccio had two strikeouts and a walk to see the result out.

San Diego returns for a seven-game homestand, beginning with a three-game set against the fading Cincinnati Reds before completing their season series against the Rockies with four games. The Reds were as close as half a game back of the final NL Wild Card on August 21, but have gone 4-10 since and fallen to five games back of the last postseason berth.

Yu Darvish (3-5, 5.75 ERA) will toe the rubber for the Padres, while Cincinnati counters with Nick Lodolo (8-7, 3.22 ERA) on the hill for the series opener on Monday at 6:40 p.m. at Petco Park.

This story was updated at 3:52 p.m.