Wood allowed four hits and one walk in total, including allowing the first two runners to reach base in the seventh, which marked the end of his night.
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The Padres tied it in the eighth on Upton Jr.’s RBI triple to right-center off Kenley Jansen, with the ball sailing just past the outstretched glove of Pederson in center. 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.
In a game that saw the Dodgers strike out their third-most batters ever, they still managed to lose thanks to three straight walks, falling to the Padres 3-2 on a walk-off walk in 11 innings on Saturday night at Petco Park in San Diego. The Dodgers rallied from the four-run deficit to tie the game in the seventh on a solo homer by pinch hitter Justin Turner, and then took a 5-4 lead an inning later on a solo homer by Kendrick.Turner homered off left-hander Ryan Buchter. “I had to do something to help my team, especially after the baserunning I did, when I didn’t run, when Ellis hit the bunt, and I was able to make up for it”.
“You’re going to carry a little baggage forward from a game like today”, Padres manager Andy Green said. Roberts made a lot of changes defensively tonight and by the tenth inning the only bench player the Dodgers had left was Carl Crawford. The Dodgers ended a 4 game losing streak.
That left two outs and one on base for Chin-hui Tsao who had some margin for error. On Sunday, he drove home Wil Myers with a two-out triple.
“In that situation, the balls were clearly outside”, Ellis said. I would’ve been nice if we had scratched one across.
Kendrick opened the 17th with a long ground-rule double to right-center and Gonzalez was intentionally walked. Through six innings Saturday, the Dodgers had just six hits and no runs in 111/3 innings against Vargas.
The bullpens took over form there as the game went into extra innings for the second consecutive day. Instead of advancing to third, Puig stood still on the play and was nearly picked off by Upton who snuck behind him to cover the bag. “Kenley has been lights out for us and we can’t expect him to be ideal”.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Alex Wood throws against the San Diego Padres during the first inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Saturday, May 21, 2016.
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Solarte was activated earlier Saturday after being out since April 10 with a hamstring injury. The San Diego Padres offense has struggled all year, but they have won seven of their last eight games when scoring more than three runs.
