Wil Myers #4 of the San Diego Padres grimaces after taking a strike during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on opening day at PETCO Park on April 4, 2016 in San Diego, California. For the Padres, it’ll be rookie manager Andy Green. The lefty improved to 4-0 in six Opening Day starts. Happens to everybody, it’s painful but it’s one of 162, you turn the page, etc. On Wednesday they face the somewhat untested Maeda and they simply must get something going offensively or the Padres and their fans are in for a long season.
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The San Francisco Giants were also big winners, easing past the Milwaukee Brewers 12-3 thanks to a binge of home runs at Miller Park.
Kershaw (1-0) was brilliant, holding San Diego to one hit in seven innings and striking out nine.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Jake Arrieta began the 2016 season pitching like the Cy Young Award victor he was past year, throwing seven scoreless innings to lead Chicago to a shutout win over Los Angeles in the season opener at Angel Stadium.
Hernandez (0-1) fell to 6-1 in nine opening day starts.
The first hit he gave up, Chase Utley’s leadoff double, was a blooper that center fielder Jon Jay dove for and missed by a foot.
For new Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was a coach for the Padres past year and also played outfield for San Diego during his career, this win was a great way to start his managerial career.
The victory maintained Kershaw’s recent stranglehold over San Diego.
They scored 14 runs after that too while Clayton Kershaw, Louis Coleman and Yimi Garcia combined to keep the Padres off the scoreboard. Kazmir will pitch for the Dodgers.
With those two triples so far, Puig joins Nick Cullop as the only Dodgers since 1913 to hit triples in each of the first two games of the season. Gonzalez brought him in on a single to center. Prince Fielder tied the game with the Rangers’ only a hit, an RBI bloop single to left.
Greinke (0-1), who signed a $206.5 million, six-year contract with the Diamondbacks, had his worst outing in almost four years, giving up seven runs – six in one inning. He struck out five and walked none. “Fifteen – hopefully I can make that stand up”. This is on me. Tuesday, the Dodgers got one.
“He threw a very good game and once he got his momentum, he was hard to handle”, Green said.
“It was just a fun day”, Kershaw said.
After Cory Spangenberg beat out an infield single to second with out in the first, Kazmir, who went six innings, retired his last 16 batters.
Dodgers: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu, on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, will throw a batting practice session later this week, Roberts said.
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Grandal (right forearm soreness) and Kendrick (strained left calf) were placed on the 15-day DL Sunday retroactive to March 25.
