CINCINNATI -- As it turns out, there is only one person who can slow Padres second baseman Edgar Gonzalez -- his manager, Bud Black.

Gonzalez, who took a .328 batting average into Wednesday's game against Cincinnati at Great American Ball Park, got a rare day off in the last game of a three-game series.

Gonzalez, who has had six consecutive multi-hit games and seven in his last eight games, was replaced by Luis Rodriguez.

"Edgar plays hard and he's played six days in a row," Black said. "You've got to use the entire roster."

Gonzalez didn't create a fuss about not being in the starting lineup, even after collecting seven hits in his last 10 at-bats, including two three-hit games against Cincinnati during this series.

Gonzalez, who was recalled from Triple-A Portland on May 12, leads all rookies in the National League in batting average.

"I'm fine with it," Gonzalez said. "It's OK, we've been playing a lot of games and the weather has been hot lately. A day game after a night game [on Wednesday] is fine. It has been a little tiring. It's good to get a day off and get my legs back."

The Padres have been met by hot and humid weather on this trip, including four games against the Cardinals in St. Louis, where the average game-time temperature was higher than 90 degrees and the heat index was even higher with the humidity.

"It's in the legs, the legs start to feel heavy and you start to feel dehydrated all the time. You don't just feel it that day, but the next day when it's hard to stretch out," Gonzalez said of playing in this type of weather.

The heat certainly hasn't affected Gonzalez's swing, even though a few of his hits in the Reds series weren't exactly line drives. That's fine with him, though.

"In St. Louis I felt really locked in," said Gonzalez. "Here, I'm still feeling pretty good. I've been getting some hits to drop in for me to get some confidence going. When that happens, you feel a lot looser."