Dusty Baker was sure Jeff Keppinger wasn't going 0-for-6 on Tuesday; Keppinger himself wasn't so sure.

Baker was right, as Keppinger came through with a double in his sixth at bat of the night, scoring Jay Bruce and giving the Reds a 4-3 victory over the Padres in 11 on Tuesday.

"Every time he doesn't get a hit, his odds of getting a hit go up every time," Baker said of his shortstop. "That was big, that was big to go 3-2 and foul off some pitches for a running count."

With Jay Bruce on first and the Reds' bullpen running out of bodies, Keppinger wasn't as sure as Baker about his inability to go hitless in six at-bats.

"No, it definitely crossed my mind, I'm not going to lie," Keppinger said. "I felt like I was seeing the ball good, except from that sidearm guy (Cla Meredith), those guys, I think I'm 0-for-my-lifetime against those guys. I felt like I was seeing the ball good off of those guys, I felt like I was seeing the ball good off of (Jake) Peavy, but it's just not right for me yet."

Keppinger entered the game hitting just .241 since returning from the disabled list on June 22 following a fractured left patella, but had hit safely in five of the previous six games, hitting .308 in that span.

Still, Keppinger said he's not quite feeling right at the plate -- he grounded into a double, grounded into two other outs, lined out and struckout before the 11th.

"I'm still not hitting them how I want to. I feel like I'm right on them, but I can't get the barrel on them," Keppinger said, paused and added, "but I got the barrel on that one."

Jay Bruce hit a one-out single to bring up Keppinger, who then had a full count against Corey.

“Well, I knew he didn’t want to walk me, I knew he was going to give me a pitch to hit because he didn't want to put the winning run in scoring position," Keppinger said. "I had a feeling, I took some big swings on the other two pitches and so I figured he might throw me something off-speed there and I think he threw a changeup."

Keppinger belted the change into the corner in left field and Bruce came around to score the winning run easily.

After the Reds tied the game with a three-run sixth thanks to a Paul Bako two-run single and a pinch-hit RBI single by Joey Votto, the Reds managed just two hits off of San Diego relievers entering the 11th.

Reds relievers were just as impressive -- after six innings and 120 pitches by starter Johnny Cueto, Jeremy Affeldt, Mike Lincoln, Bill Bray and Gary Majewski coming to allow just two hits and strike out eight Padres. In all, the Reds recorded 18 strikeouts and struck out 13 times.

"Johnny gave us all he had. He asked if he could go one more inning and I told him, 'no, that's enough for tonight,'" Baker said. "We didn't want him to go that far, but we were strapped in the bullpen before the game started. Had we gone any further, we only had one more pitcher and we were saving him. We were really trying to stay away from (David) Weathers today and (Francisco) Cordero today. Hopefully (Bronson) Arroyo can give us more quality innings tomorrow and we're in a little better shape."

With the win, the Reds improve to 6-6 in extra innings, recorded their MLB-high 10th walkoff victory of the season and won a game started by Peavy for the first time in club history. It may have also helped the Reds move on from Monday's blown save and 6-4 loss.

"That was the second time in this homestand we had to bounce back after a tough loss," Baker said. "That shows the resiliency of this team, what these guys are made of and the ability to forget yesterday."