Freddie Freeman hit a home run and Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered seven scoreless innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers continued their winning ways with a 3-0 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Andy Pages had an RBI single as the Dodgers improved to 10-2 since June 22 and 7-2 against the Padres this season. San Diego saw its losing streak extend to eight games for its longest slide since a 10-game skid in 2013.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto (9-5) matched his season high with 10 strikeouts, while allowing three hits and two walks.<\/p>\n
Fernando Tatis Jr. had two of the Padres’ four hits, while the Nos. 2-5 spots in the order combined to go 1-for-15, while the bottom three went a combined to go 0-for-9.<\/p>\n
Padres right-hander Griffin Canning (1-6) gave up one run on two hits and two walks over four innings after opener Wandy Peralta pitched a scoreless inning.<\/p>\n
Tatis singled to open the game on Yamamoto’s first pitch before the right-hander escaped a first-and-third jam with two outs. He gave up just one more hit and retired 17 of the last 19 batters he faced.<\/p>\n
Freeman walked for the Dodgers with two outs in the first inning but was thrown out trying to score from first on a double by Mookie Betts. Los Angeles broke through in the third inning when Dalton Rushing led off with a walk and scored on Pages’ one-out single to left.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers made it 2-0 in the sixth when Freeman hit a home run to right-center field, his 15th of the season and his fifth during his current 19-game on-base streak.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto, Freeman and Pages all were named National League All-Stars on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Brock Stewart and Alex Vesia combined to pitch a scoreless eighth inning for the Dodgers and Will Klein pitched the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n
After not pitching since Monday, Padres closer Mason Miller pitched the ninth inning in a non-save situation and hit leadoff hitter Tommy Edman with a pitch before Freeman had an RBI single. Miller was named San Diego’s lone All-Star.<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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