SAN DIEGO – The Los Angeles Dodgers have found another way to beat the San Diego Padres this Saturday at Petco Park.
This time it was with a walk that determined his ace Clayton Kershaw to produce the first and most transcendent run to guide the Dodgers’ 2-0 victory over Padres.
His career as a “wheel” made Kershaw get the best part of an extraordinary pitching duel he played against the Japanese Yu Darvish and was seconded by the Los Angeles defense, who played the games when they were the most necessary.
For example, the catch in the right field by Mookie Betts to take out the last one and condemn the game, when the parents already felt that they had equality by stepping on the register, as happened the night before.
Previously, Chris Taylor made almost just one double piece with a full house that had the 1-0 advantage that Kershaw produced.
Thus, the first two games in the series met the expectations of two clubs that have to compete inch by inch during the remaining 17 matches of this regular season and most likely in the playoffs.
Both were triumphant Dodgers in various ways. On Friday they played the best part of an offensive game, with little relief for the two clubs, which ended after 12 innings, 17 combined runs and the same number of pitchers; four driving changes and three draws in five hours.
This time, there was only one leader, Los Angeles, as they had been practically for more than a decade in which they took the annual series between the two rivals in the American American League.
Saturday was the Dodgers’ eighth straight victory last season, including sweeping the second round of the postseason and the first two in this series.
Kershaw (3-1, 2.19) secured the victory with six innings and a ball with two shots, without allowing a run, eight shots and two walks, supported by three relievers, including the Mexican Victor González, who scored the save, in hurried with Betts’ jewel, but saved in the end.
Betts made the move by slipping into the right field, when Will Myers and Jurickson Profar almost celebrated the tie, coming home from third and second respectively.
Darvish (1-1, 2.55) offered his own seven innings, one hit, nine hits and just that pair of walks that cost him the game in the fifth inning.
Justin Turner put the season alone with a solo home round in the ninth inning to fix the game, with his team’s ninth straight win remaining the best record in the major standings (13-2) and the best for any reigning champion after the first 15 games of the season.
This intense series will end this Sunday with Blake Snell (0-1, 4.35), the new Padres starter (9-7) facing the Dodgers for the first time since losing the World Series to them, when he launched for Tampa Bay. Raze.
Los Angeles will also put its new star Trevor Bauer (2-0, 2.70) on the San Diego buffet.