Darvish held the Dodgers to one hit over seven innings last weekend, but took a narrow loss when Kershaw threw six shutout innings. “If we keep doing that, we’ll be all right.”ĭarvish yielded four hits and a run with nine strikeouts in his second straight outstanding start against LA. “We just have to keep getting baserunners and getting in position to drive runners in,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. With four regular hitters now unavailable due to injuries, Los Angeles has scored only 11 runs with a mere 23 hits in its last six games. Mookie Betts doubled and scored in the first inning for the major league-leading Dodgers, who have lost four of five amidst a major offensive slump. Tommy Pham and pinch-hitter Jurickson Profar also drove in runs in the ninth. Wil Myers' solo homer in the second ended Kershaw's streak of 19 consecutive scoreless innings. After driving in a third run in the ninth, Tatís spoke to his father at home in the Dominican Republic. Tatís celebrated a significant family day in style with homers in the third and fifth off Clayton Kershaw (3-2). Tatís launched two solo homers on the anniversary of his father's most amazing baseball feat at Chavez Ravine during the Padres' third straight victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-1. The baseball gods don't deserve all the credit for the two hardest-hit homers in the ascendant career of Tatís, who led San Diego's latest win over its biggest rival. "I told myself, ‘If I could just hit two home runs today, that would be so crazy.' I think the baseball gods were in my favor.”
“Oh, I definitely knew this was the day,″ Tatís said with a big laugh. was only 3 1/2 months old when his father hit two grand slams in the same inning at Dodger Stadium, the young slugger was well aware his San Diego Padres happened to be in the same park Friday night exactly 22 years later. LOS ANGELES – Although Fernando Tatís Jr.