Manny Machado knocked in five runs and Dylan Cease earned his first win since April 2 as the San Diego Padres routed the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 11-1 on Tuesday.
Cease (2-5), who went 10 starts without a victory after topping the Cleveland Guardians in his second outing of the year, fired seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball. He walked five but set a season high with 11 strikeouts.
Los Angeles went with a bullpen game, but after opener Lou Trivino pitched a scoreless first, bulk reliever Matt Sauer (1-1) took a pounding. He allowed 13 hits and nine runs over 4 2/3 innings with three walks and six whiffs.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts waved the white flag after Xander Bogaerts’ two-run single upped the margin to 9-0 in the sixth, bringing utility man Enrique Hernandez off the bench to work the last 2 1/3 innings.
Los Angeles did avert the shutout in the eighth via Michael Conforto’s RBI single, but by then, the outcome was long decided. San Diego finished with 16 hits, three each by Machado, Bogaerts and Luis Arraez, who scored four runs.
Arraez initiated the scoring in a three-run third, lining a two-out double down the right field line that scored Fernando Tatis Jr. from first on a close play. Machado dumped an RBI single to right-center and Jackson Merrill followed by ripping a triple into the right field corner.
Martin Maldonado upped the lead to 4-0 in the fourth on a double-play ball with the bases full that scored Bogaerts. Machado made it 5-0 an inning later by lining an RBI single to left-center that plated Arraez.
The Padres, whose previous nine games were all decided by one or two runs, made it a rare laugher with four more runs in the sixth. Maldonado led off the inning with his third homer, a shot estimated at 381 feet to left, while Machado tacked on an RBI grounder before Bogaerts’ two-run single.
Machado finished San Diego’s scoring in the seventh by drilling a two-run single off the top of the left-center-field wall.
–Field Level Media
