Overview
- San Diego and Los Angeles are knotted at 73-56 with 33 games remaining after the Padres’ 2-1 win at Petco Park.
- Yu Darvish allowed one run on one hit with five strikeouts over six innings, outdueling Blake Snell, who yielded two runs across seven.
- Rookie Alex Freeland supplied the Dodgers’ lone run with his first major league home run in the third inning.
- The Padres manufactured both runs in the fourth, with a Fernando Tatis Jr. walk setting up Manny Machado’s RBI single and Xander Bogaerts’ sacrifice fly.
- Jason Adam worked a perfect seventh, Mason Miller escaped the eighth with a 3-6-1 double play, and Robert Suárez secured his MLB-leading 34th save by striking out Teoscar Hernández after two Dodgers singles.