Both team’s television announcers – Charley Steiner for the Dodgers and Don Orsillo for the Padres – thought the ball was gone (hell, we all did!), yet it somehow died into the glove of Trayce Thompson on the warning track. Former Friar Adrian Gonzalez took Vargas’s first pitch to left field for a single.
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Freshly stung by walkoff losses Friday (on Melvin Upton Jr.’s ninth-inning home run off Kenley Jansen) and Saturday (on a bases-loaded walk by Chin-Hui Tsao), the Dodgers walked the tightrope for their longest game since another 17-inning marathon with the Padres in April 2009, using 22 of their 25 active players including Clayton Kershaw who appeared as a pinch-hitter.
“The ball fell passed me and turned into a triple”, said Puig after his diving attempt on the play.
Mets 3, Brewers 1: Noah Syndergaard struck out 11 in seven innings to help NY complete a three-game sweep.
Los Angeles had won six in a row at Petco Park since September 4, 2015, including sweeping the opening series of the season against the Padres with three shutouts.
DETROIT (AP) – Jordan Zimmermann (7-2) left with a strained right groin after allowing two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings. Puig’s blast was followed one inning later by a two-run shot by Padres catcher Christian Bethancourt, who could see time at third base or right field as manager Andy Green looks to boost his team’s anemic offense. Solarte drew a four-pitch walk from left-handed Dodgers reliever Adam Liberatore to open the inning and Upton reached on an infield single while Solarte took third on a throwing error by Kendrick at first base.
The Dodgers managed to strikeout 19 batters tonight which is the most they have struckout in a game since 2009.
Game over, arguably in even more frustrating fashion than on Friday night, even though the Dodgers were living on borrowed time in a sense.
Yangervis Solarte celebrates after drawing the fateful walk. They needed something good to happen but I don’t think this is what they had in mind The Dodgers got a lucky break.YASIEL PUIG got a second chance and he better be glad he got it because he could have blown it bigtime. This will be Maeda’s second career game against the Padres. Ross Stripling, who started Thursday against the Angels in Anaheim, pitched three scoreless innings Sunday to record the win. “It really is. This is something that can propel us, move us forward”. Pederson scored on a wild pitch and Carl Crawford hit an RBI grounder.
“I was going to wait until he threw me a strike in this situation”, Solarte said through an interpreter.
“Recently, I haven’t been able to persevere where I should”.
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Puig was on second with no outs in the top of the 9th, and did not advance to third on a sacrifice bunt by Ellis that had his coaches and teammates scratching their heads in confusion.
