LOS ANGELES \u2014 A leadoff walk wound up nicking Griffin Canning in the third inning Saturday night.<\/p>\n
That was all the help Yoshinobu Yamamoto needed to keep the Padres spiraling toward the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
With the sounds of fireworks echoing throughout Chavez Ravine throughout America\u2019s 250th birthday, the Padres managed no firepower of their own in a 3-0-loss that sent them to an eighth straight loss, their longest skid since a 10-game losing streak in the summer of 2013.<\/p>\n
Another loss on Sunday would hand the Padres their first winless road trip of at least six games since losing three each in Houston and Chicago on a trip in 2009.<\/p>\n
This miserable trip has dropped the Padres (43-45) two games under .500, into third place in the NL West and five games out of a wild-card spot, with five teams to leapfrog if they ever get their act together.<\/p>\n
The Padres sat as many as 11 games over .500 on May 23. Now, their odds to make the postseason sat at 13.1% to start Saturday, according to fangraphs.com.<\/p>\n
Canning\u2019s effort in bulk relief was at least admirable for an overtaxed pitching staff as he held baseball\u2019s best team to one run in four innings after left-hander Wandy Peralta opened the game with a scoreless frame.<\/p>\n
To say nothing of the offense\u2019s no-show, the loss, however, was entirely self-induced after Canning walked Dalton Rushing to start the third inning, allowed a single to the ensuing hitter and put runners in scoring position with a wild pitch.<\/p>\n
Andy Pages cashed in one of the runs with a single through the left side of the infield. Canning stranded the other runner and pitched two more frames to lower his ERA from 7.09 to 6.71.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers extended their lead in the sixth inning when the left-handed-hitting Freddie Freeman greeted left-hander Kyle Hart with a homer to left. Freeman tacked on another run off All-Star closer Mason Miller \u2014 getting work in his first game since June 29 \u2014 with an RBI single after Miller hit Tommy Edman with a wild, bouncing slider to start the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
The Padres had one real chance to get to Yamamoto.<\/p>\n
Not that it was a great chance.<\/p>\n
Fernando Tatis Jr. singled through the left side of the infield on the first pitch of the game. He got to third base on Gavin Sheets\u2019 two-out single, but Ty France struck out to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Xander Bogaerts led off the second inning with a single. The Padres did not get another hit off Yamamoto (7 IP, 0 ER, 2 BBs, 10 Ks) and didn\u2019t get another hit period until Tatis\u2019 two-out double off right-hander Brock Stewart with two outs in the eighth.<\/p>\n
But left-hander Alex Vesia struck out Jake Cronenworth on three pitches to end the eighth and right-hander Will Klein retired the side in order in the ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 A leadoff walk wound up nicking Griffin Canning in the third inning Saturday night. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127,1696],"class_list":["post-386708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}