PHOENIX — Luis Arraez arrived at Chase Field about 90 minutes before he took his first swing in a game and got his first hit for the Padres.

He led off and was their designated hitter and went about being the personification of A.J. Preller’s dream in a 13-1 victory over the Diamondbacks on Saturday.

Arraez went 4 for 6 and scored the Padres’ first run, drove in their third run and scored their fourth run to lead the way to a rout.

Manny Machado drove in three runs. Jurickson Profar, who Arraez replaced atop the lineup, was 3 for 4 with one of the Padres’ two homers in their eight-run seventh inning.

Michael King threw six innings at the start, as the Padres won their season-high fourth consecutive game and got back to .500 (18-18).

The top of the seventh featured Arraez’s fourth hit and his first out of the night.

He was all they could have hoped for in his first game in brown.

From the first inning on, he was pretty much what Preller, the Padres President of Baseball Operations, envisioned when he traded for Arraez on Friday.

“He’s a fun guy to watch, puts the bat on the ball,” Preller said. “… He brings a lot of energy — both as a table setter and he’s also really tough when men get on base driving in runs.”

With the so-easy left-handed swing that has won him two batting titles the past two years and prompted comparisons to Tony Gywnn, Arraez lined the game’s second pitch down the right field line.

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