Manny Machado and Brandon Drury hit two-run homers within the third inning and Jurickson Profar added a three-run shot within the sixth because the visiting San Diego Padres opened a three-game sequence with a 7-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
San Diego starter Yu Darvish shut out Los Angeles for seven innings and reached the three,000-strikeout milestone in his skilled profession that spans 17 seasons in Japan and the United States.
Darvish (12-7) held the Dodgers to 2 hits, two walks and two hit batters whereas fanning 9.
The Padres earned their fourth straight win and moved into second place within the National League wild-card race, a half-game forward of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Dodgers took a 3rd straight loss, one wanting their worst skid of the season.
Machado and Drury every hit his twenty fifth homer of the season on near-identical drives to left-center off Dustin May, who was making simply his third begin since coming back from final 12 months’s Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgical procedure.
Machado’s residence run adopted a one-out stroll drawn by Juan Soto. After May struck out Josh Bell, he hit Jake Cronenworth with a pitch. Drury adopted together with his fifth homer in 27 video games as a Padre.
May opened the sixth by hitting Drury on the helmet ear flap with a breaking ball. After Trent Grisham drew a stroll, May departed the sport in favor of Heath Hembree, who opened by putting out Ha-Seong Kim and Austin Nola. However, Profar drove a low, 2-1 fastball into the proper discipline seats to make it 7-0 together with his thirteenth homer of the season.
May (1-2) was charged with six runs on 4 hits and 5 walks with 5 strikeouts in five-plus innings. He additionally hit two Padres. When Darvish hit Will Smith with a pitch within the backside of the sixth, plate umpire Alfonso Marquez warned each groups.
The Dodgers broke up the shutout within the ninth towards Nabil Crismatt.
With one out, Justin Turner one-hopped the wall in left heart for his thirty first double of the season and scored on Joey Gallo’s single down the road in proper. Chris Taylor then drew a stroll earlier than Crismatt struck out Cody Bellinger and retired Hanser Alberto on a fly to heart to finish the sport.
–Field Level Media