Teoscar Hernández crushed a grand slam to interrupt open one other tight recreation, main the Dodgers to a 5-0 victory over the Padres on Saturday evening at Petco Park in San Diego.
In regards to the first half of this three-game weekend collection was fairly irritating for the Dodgers offense, with only one run in Friday evening's loss and only one run by the primary 5 innings towards the knuckleballer Matt Waldron, who gave up two hits on Saturday, each. to Freddie Freeman.
A stroll within the sixth inning ended Waldron's evening, then two walks and a balk by lefty Adrián Morejón loaded the bases with two outs. That set the stage for Hernández, who fell 1-2 to Enyel De Los Santos earlier than launching a dangling slider into left subject for the Dodgers' second grand slam this week.
Hernández has homered in 5 of the final eight video games, tying him on the season with Shohei Ohtani for the crew lead with 11 dwelling runs, one shy of the main league lead.
It was the second dwelling run of the sport for the Dodgers, with Freeman taking a fly ball proper off Waldron within the first inning. Freeman is heating up in his personal proper, reaching base in 19 straight video games, and has six extra-base hits in his final eight video games.
Freeman does it so effectively that even when issues don't go his approach, they nonetheless do. He thought he was strolling on a 3-1 pitch within the fourth inning, however as he dropped his bat and began towards first base, dwelling plate umpire Erich Bacchus known as strike two as an alternative. Freeman seized the chance by lining a ball to the left subject nook, over the top of Jurickson Profar for a leadoff double.
Waldron struck out Freeman that inning.
That the Dodgers had been nonetheless within the recreation regardless of scoring only one run by the primary 5 innings, not to mention main, was due to a robust second straight outing for James Paxton, who appears to have discovered the changes mechanics he was in search of.
Paxton pitched six scoreless innings Saturday with 4 strikeouts, and walked none for the primary time this season. Like Waldron within the fourth inning, Paxton ripped his personal leadoff double within the fifth.
For all of the command issues Paxton has had within the first month of the season, he nonetheless discovered a option to final a minimum of 5 innings in six of his seven begins, and 4⅔ innings within the different. Each Might begins went a minimum of six innings, giving him three such begins on the 12 months.
It's been a development of late for the Dodgers' rotation, with a minimum of six innings by the beginning pitcher in eight of the final 9 video games. Not so coincidentally, the Dodgers are 8-1 in that stretch.
San Diego had designs on scoring with two runners on and two outs within the eighth inning towards Ryan Yarbrough, however Max Muncy's defensive resurgence continued with an unbelievable diving catch of a Profar liner to finish the menace.
Saturday marked the 18th straight recreation the Dodgers didn't permit greater than 4 runs, surpassing August 23 to September 9, 1977 for the longest streak in franchise historical past. The final main league crew with a streak of 4 or fewer runs allowed in the identical season was Cleveland in 2017, which hit 25 straight.
Saturday particular
Programs at dwelling: Freddie Freeman (4), Teoscar Hernández (11)
WP – James Paxton (5-0): 6 IP, 4 hits, 4 strikeouts
LP – Matt Waldron (1-5): 5⅓ IP, 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts
Subsequent
The Dodgers will attempt for a sixth straight collection win Sunday afternoon (1:10 p.m., SportsNet LA), with Walker Buehler making his second begin since being activated from the injured record. Yu Darvish begins for the Padres.