BALTIMORE -- The Padres’ nine-game road trip through Cleveland, D.C. and Baltimore loomed after the All-Star break as a sort of measuring stick. They had limped into the break at 50-49. Anything less than a winning trip, and San Diego would hit the Trade Deadline as a .500 team. Or worse.

Instead, this hasn’t merely been a winning trip. This is on the verge of becoming one of the most impressive road trips in franchise history, particularly considering the competition. With a back-and-forth 6-4 victory over the Orioles on Friday night at Camden Yards, the Padres extended their winning streak to a season-high six games.

On the trip that once looked so daunting, they are 6-1. Dylan Cease threw a no-hitter on Thursday. Michael King flirted with a no-no of his own on Sunday in Cleveland. Last weekend, San Diego won a series against the team with the best record in the American League. On Friday, they took Game 1 against the team with the second-best record. In between, they swept (and no-hit) the Nationals.

Yeah, that’s a solid trip -- no matter how this weekend ends, really.

“We’ve been working hard all season,” said left fielder Jurickson Profar, the hero on Friday -- and all year, really. “Early on, the record wasn’t showing it. But [the] guys in here put in a lot of work. We’re just playing really good baseball right now.”

Profar hit a game-tying, two-run homer in the sixth inning, then a game-winning two-run homer in the ninth off Baltimore closer Craig Kimbrel.

The game had seesawed all night. The Orioles led early. The Padres led late. The Orioles tied it in the eighth. With two outs in the ninth and the go-ahead run on third base, Kimbrel threw a fastball on the outside corner of the plate.

Profar launched it 431 feet to straightaway center, then danced the griddy as he crossed home plate.

“He’s just himself,” said center fielder Jackson Merrill, who had two hits in his Maryland homecoming. “He griddy’d across home plate. Nobody told him to do that. That’s just how he is. He plays with energy, and we love it. It feeds off on everybody else.”

That the game was tied in the ninth inning was already something of a small feat. The Padres called up right-hander Adam Mazur for a spot start, asking him to face one of the sport’s best offenses in a tough environment. He watched Cease’s no-hitter while at the airport, waiting for his flight out of Salt Lake City.

Mazur did well to elude some early traffic, allowing only one run. But he was lifted after just 2 2/3 innings. Pitching coach Ruben Niebla later revealed to Mazur that it was always the plan for him to face 11 batters, then be lifted before Anthony Santander’s second trip to the plate.

“I kind of liked it, not really going out there and changing my mindset at all,” Mazur said. “I was just going out there and preparing for the start as usual, not changing anything because I only have a certain number of ABs.”

From there, manager Mike Shildt was aggressive. He carved out certain lanes for certain relievers, rotating lefties and righties all night. Jeremiah Estrada (typically reserved for the eighth) started the seventh. Adrian Morejon finished the seventh and started the eighth. Closer Robert Suarez was called upon for five outs.

Shildt, of course, had the luxury of managing aggressively. He started his postgame press conference by calling the win “a residual effect” of Cease’s no-hitter. Still, Shildt went hard after this one. A loss Friday could’ve felt doubly taxing, because of the burden on the bullpen.

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“If you chase it, you need to get it,” Shildt said. “But we had the fresh arms to chase it with.”

Suarez entered with runners on the corners and one out in the eighth. He allowed a game-tying sacrifice fly but escaped further trouble, setting the stage for Profar’s heroics. In the bottom of the ninth, Suarez took the mound with a two-run lead. He retired the three All-Stars at the top of the Orioles lineup 1-2-3.

Afterward, Suarez was quick to credit the six pitchers who threw before him.

“They gave us the opportunity to win a game like today,” Suarez said through team interpreter Pedro Gutierrez. “Everybody can contribute, everybody can put their own piece into the puzzle and build on it and get the win -- which is what we’re working for.”