{"id":75258,"date":"2025-08-17T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75258\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:54:13","slug":"dodgers-take-sole-lead-of-the-nl-west-after-strong-6-0-showing-against-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75258\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers take sole lead of the NL West after strong 6-0 showing against Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers are reigning solo at the top of the NL West once again after a 6-0 win over the San Diego Padres on Saturday. The shutout put the Dodgers at a 70-53 record, with the team moving just in front of the 69-54 Padres with the win at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

The win came on the back of a solid night from Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, who had a homer and an RBI sacrifice fly. On the mound, Blake Snell threw six shutout innings for the Dodgers, notching 62 strikes on 96 pitches and allowing five hits.<\/p>\n

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It didn’t take long for the Dodgers to get on the board, taking a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Hern\u00e1ndez began with a sacrifice fly that sent Shohei Ohtani home, before Michael Conforto hit a two-run RBI single.<\/p>\n

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Freddie Freeman added to that in the second inning, adding two more runs on a fielding error. In the fifth inning, a solo homer from Hern\u00e1ndez \u2014 his 20th this season\u2014 brought L.A. to 6-0.<\/p>\n

Padres starter Dylan Cease had a tough start to the game, allowing six walks in the first two innings and letting the Dodgers run up a 5-0 lead. He also ended with three errors, and only threw two strikes. Cease was taken out in the fourth inning after racking up 85 pitches, following Ohtani’s first hit of the game.<\/p>\n

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After a 3-2 win over the Padres on Friday<\/a> that ended a four-game losing streak, the Dodgers officially lock up a series win. The two teams will play again on Sunday to finish the three-game series, with Yu Darvish set to start for San Diego and Tyler Glasnow set to take the mound for L.A.<\/p>\n

But it won’t be long until they meet again: The Dodgers and Padres are set to play another three-game series in San Diego next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers are reigning solo at the top of the NL West once again after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5781,6108,58125,12215,1187,6593,591,5886,1189,5149,85,10222,5784,41441],"class_list":["post-75258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-snell","tag-dylan-cease","tag-first-inning","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-michael-conforto","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-tyler-glasnow","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}