SAN DIEGO — The Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll lined a pair of singles, banged a double off the wall and scored the go-ahead run on Thursday night.

“Three balls hit hard on a line,” Carroll said after the Diamondbacks’ 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. “That’s a great day.”

But Carroll did not seem to want to call it more than that. Not yet, at least.

A day earlier, he hit two other balls hard on a line. His average has climbed back above .200 for the first time since May 10. The results, the pitches he has hit, they are signs he might be moving in the right direction.

“Too early, for sure,” Carroll said. “Name of the game is consistency. I want to take the rest of this year and do my best to do exactly that. Just kind of live in the moment and contribute and help this team win.”

Eugenio Suarez and Gabriel Moreno connected for consecutive homers in the second. The Diamondbacks' bullpen covered 4⅔ innings without allowing a run. The Diamondbacks bounced back from a loss on Wednesday afternoon, winning for the fifth time in the past six games, and at 30-33 they are a good week — or a red-hot weekend — away from reaching the .500 mark.

Before Carroll met with reporters, Diamondbacks' manager Torey Lovullo complimented his young star on the way he has carried himself through his struggles. Lovullo sees a player with a good attitude, someone playing hard and working hard. He said if he didn’t know better, he would assume Carroll was having a good year.

It might look that way, but Carroll suggested the mental toll of the season hasn’t been easy to absorb.

“It’s been pretty terrible,” Carroll said. “You’ve got to show up and put on a face. These other guys in this clubhouse, this staff, they deserve it. But I’d be lying if I said this year hasn’t been pretty terrible.”

Carroll credited those around him — teammates, coaches, staff — for helping him through struggles unlike any he has experienced in the past. He said he has never felt like someone whose results have dictated the way he is treated.

“I think I always try to stay super process oriented, but I’ve never really underperformed like this,” he said. “It’s been really challenging to trust it and keep working every day. There are times where it feels like you can’t find the right answer, but I feel like that’s just when I’ve got to rely on these guys around me, relying on the coaches, rely on my teammates. They’ve done an unbelievable job of kind of just being even-keel. That’s helped me be even-keel about it. Big credit to this organization.”

Carroll shot the first pitch of the game, a 95 mph fastball from Padres right-hander Randy Vasquez, into center field for a single. An inning later, he again lined another Vasquez fastball, this one 94 mph, into center field. Both pitches were in the upper-third of the zone, the second one in particular, pitches that have given Carroll issues this year.

“I think they were up, manageable up, in a spot where he can handle them,” Lovullo said. “He got his barrel moving in the right direction.”

But what most stood out to Lovullo was Carroll’s at-bat in the seventh. With two out, Carroll battled Padres reliever Jeremiah Estrada to a 2-2 count before getting a splitter over the plate. Carroll scorched it down the line in right.

“I think the most impressive swing was the split that nobody is hitting off of Estrada that he banged off the right field wall,” Lovullo said. “He stayed through that. That was an impressive swing.”

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Before the game, Estrada was honored for setting a major league record last month with 13 consecutive strikeouts. His splitter had been a big part of his success. Entering the night, Estrada had elicited whiffs on half the swings against it. He also had not yet allowed an extra-base hit against the pitch.

“It felt good to keep that change-up fair and drive it,” Carroll said. “It was a good swing.”

The Diamondbacks entered Thursday with exactly 100 games left in their season. Carroll might have dug himself a hole when it comes to his numbers, but he has all kinds of time to climb out of it.

“Yeah, for sure,” he said. “I’m trying to treat it that way, not give anything away. I want to take it a day at a time, keep learning, and be able to say at the end of the year that I came out of it a better hitter, knowing myself better.”

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