MILWAUKEE — Comebacks are exciting. Resilience and fight and all that are nice traits for a team to possess.

Scoring early and playing ahead throughout a game is better. It is ostensibly easier, at least.

For the first time in a while, the Padres went that route Tuesday, scoring four runs before the game’s 10th pitch had been thrown and effectively cruising to a 6-3 victory.

With that, they are two games above .500 (11-9) for the first time this season, have their first three-game winning streak and have won three consecutive series.

It had been nearly two weeks since the Padres won a game in which they never trailed, and Tuesday came on the heels of a stretch of seven games in which the Padres notched four comeback victories — all after trailing by multiple runs in the fifth inning or later.

It was the Brewers who had to try to do that Tuesday.

All they could manage was a first-inning run on a two-out walk and double against Dylan Cease, who worked around his other four walks and allowed just two hits while striking out seven in six innings.

Four relievers finished out the game with just a bit of drama.

The Padres immediately jumped on Brewers starter Wade Miley.

Xander Bogaerts began the game with a flared single to right field, Fernando Tatis Jr. lined a single to center field and Jurickson Profar reached on a sacrifice bunt when first baseman Jake Bauers dropped an underhand toss from Miley’s glove.

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