Padres slugger has second two-homer game of career against Clayton Kershaw; Yu Darvish allows two runs in 6 2/3 innings
“They beat us the whole year,” Juan Soto said. “But we showed them in the most important stage.”consecutive season, the Padres lost the season series against the Dodgers last year. Then came a rainy night in October and Jake Cronenworth’s two-run single in a five-run seventh inning and Josh Hader striking out the top three batters in the Dodgers order in the ninth inning order to clinch the National League Division Series.The Dodgers have won the NL West nine times in the past 10 seasons.
Yu Darvish allowed a run in the first inning and an unearned run in the seventh and retired 13 straight at one point in between, to get the win. After inheriting the runner Darvish left at third base, Nick Martinez took one pitch to end the seventh inning and worked a perfect eighth. Hader worked the ninth for his major league-leading 11The Dodgers arrived having won six straight to get to 19-13 and their usual place atop the division.
Tatis led off the third with a home run over the wall in left-center field. The towering 405-foot blast was his third in 19 regular career at-bats against Clayton Kershaw and his 14Following Trent Grisham’s lead-off walk in the fifth, Tatis sent another ball into the seats beyond left field for his second career two-homer game against Kershaw.
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