SAN DIEGO -- Make a great play, get a bottle of wine from your manager.

That was the case for Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell on Tuesday. Manager Joe Maddon bought Russell a bottle of Isosceles Red one day after Russell made a diving stop on a hard hit smash to his left, hit his 18th home run of the season and recorded his 80th RBI against the San Diego Padres.

"No more perfect day than yesterday [Monday], so I wrote '6-to-3. Enjoy' on it," Madden said.

Russell was admiring the bottle of wine in his locker stall before Tuesday's game while recalling the play that he ranks "right up there" among his best.

"Normally, you dive and see the hop," Russell said. "The hop was kind of under me. I had to catch it back here [to his left]."

Addison Russell celebrates with Ben Zobrist after hitting his 19th home run of the season on Tuesday. AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi

Russell has become a bigger topic of conversation as he has emerged as a force at the plate -- he hit his 19th home run in the fifth inning Tuesday. It wasn't lost on him on Monday night, nor on his manager on Tuesday afternoon, that this was the same person who was highly criticized for being an All-Star starter a little over a month ago in this same ballpark.

"I'm very happy for him," Maddon said. "Being selected. That was an issue. I'm so proud of him, and he came out and confronted it. In his own way, very quietly, but in a distinguished manner. That's how he is. Now he's showing everyone how good he is."

Russell never cringed at the questions directed at him, though he could have. It's not like he voted himself in. Instead, he just went to proving he belonged.

"I believe that event catapulted him to the point he's at now," Maddon said. "In some ways, there was this negative dialogue going on. He's turned it into a positive. Good for him.

"Addy is a quiet person on the surface, but if you engage him in conversation, he'll go. He'll talk your ear off. I'm very pleased with his progress."

Russell couldn't help but smile, knowing his manager went to a liquor store in the Gas Lamp district in San Diego and found him the bottle of wine. The shortstop indicated that he liked a certain kind while attending a Maddon charity event earlier this month.

"I told him I have an even better one," Maddon recalled. "Isosceles."

At this rate, Maddon might be buying more bottles. If "6 to 3" was his inscription this time around, maybe "25 and 100" -- for Russell's home runs and RBIs -- will be on the next one.

But that might be a low estimate for Russell's offensive output.