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.
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.
Yamamoto (9-5) matched his season high with 10 strikeouts, while allowing three hits and two walks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yamamoto, Freeman and Pages all were named National League All-Stars on Saturday.
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.
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.
–Field Level Media
