The San Diego Padres continued their hot start with a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, securing their fourth consecutive win. Starting pitcher Michael King limited the Dodgers to just one run while working seven scoreless innings, adding to his streak of 21 consecutive scoreless innings against the Dodgers.
Padres starter Michael King celebrates after a double play in the sixth inning of Monday’s game against the Dodgers . They stayed hot enough Monday in the opener of a three-game series against the Dodgers at Petco Park.
Michael King worked seven scoreless innings, Miguel Andujar’s first-inning home run off Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the only run scored, and Mason Miller survived a wild ninth in the Padres’ 1-0 victory that flip-flopped the top spots in the National League West.
“The standings are the standings,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said Monday afternoon. “They don’t really matter in May. ”“It’s a great test for us,” outfielder Nick Castellanos said before the game.
“We’ve been finding ways to win, and obviously they’ve been in charge of this division for, I don’t know how many years or whatever, but for a little bit. So, you know, we get to see where we are. We get to get a feel for it. ” The only thing to definitively take away from the Padres’ fourth consecutive victory is that the Padres want King on the mound when they face the Dodgers.
Before Mason Miller locked in to lock down his 15th save following two walks at the start of the ninth inning, King worked seven scoreless innings and Jason Adam worked a scoreless eighth. King allowed four hits and struck out nine while running his streak of scoreless innings in the regular season against the Dodgers to 21.
With help from catcher Rodolfo Durán throwing out two runners trying to steal second base, King faced the minimum number of batters through 5⅔ innings. He got a double play grounder and survived a pair of soft singles and a hard single to leave a runner at third base in the sixth.
He got past a leadoff walk with help from a diving stop by first baseman Gavin Sheets and completed the seventh when center fielder Jackson Merrill made a running grab in front of the wall. Thanks to Durán nabbing Mookie Betts trying to steal as part of a strikeout double play to end the first inning and Shohei Ohtani trying to steal second after a leadoff walk in the fourth, King had thrown just 73 pitches heading into the sixth inning.
And after Andy Pages flared a single into shallow center field to start that inning, Teoscar Hernandez grounded into a double play. Hyseong Kim, the Dodgers’ No.9 hitter, followed with a line drive into right field and Shohei Ohtani then dribbled a 40 mph grounder to the left side that Durán fielded and threw wide of first base, allowing Kim to get to third.
That misfortune was countered by some good fortune when Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel held Kim while Tatis had trouble picking up the ball. Sheets’ diving stop of a hard grounder by Kyle Tucker and throw to first base erased Freddy Freeman at second base after his walk to start the seventh. And after Tucker stole second, King retired Will Smith and Max Muncy.
Adam got two quick outs in the eighth before a walk and a single made for some tension. But he ended the inning on Betts’ grounder to shortstop. But that one hit was Miguel Andujar turning on a splitter and sending it into the seats beyond left field in the first inning.
Padres Dodgers Michael King Miguel Andujar Yoshinobu Yamamoto Mason Miller Rodolfo Durán Gavin Sheets Jackson Merrill National League West
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