Mike Clevinger allows five runs in 2 2/3 innings; Padres score three runs off Julio Urias in fifth inning but get nothing more in opener of best-of-five series
The best team in baseball in the regular season began its postseason Tuesday night by going up big and holding on, as theThe Padres did not hit much outside the fifth inning, did not pitch well at the start and committed a costly error. It contrasted with their sharp execution in the wild-card series they played in New York over the weekend.The Padres fell behind, rallied but not enough, and fell to the Dodgers 5-3 in the first game of their NL Division Series.
Jake Cronenworth followed with his first hit of the postseason, a single lined to right field, and Ha-Seong Kim doubled to left-center to move Cronenworth to third. Both of them scored — Cronenworth on a groundout to the right side by Trent Grisham and Kim on a sacrifice fly by Nola — to make it 5-3.
Pierce Johnson followed a perfect fifth with a perfect sixth, before Alex Vesia, arguably the Dodgers’ best left-handed reliever, shut down the Padres in the seventh. Vesia and Brusdar Graterol worked the eighth, and Chris Martin pitched a scoreless ninth. Moreover, the Padres came into this most important series having lost nine consecutive regular season series against the Dodgers dating to the middle of the 2021 season. In losing 14 of the 19 games they played in 2022, the Padres were outscored 109-47. That’s an average deficit of more than three runs a game.“Yeah, 0-0,” manager Bob Melvin said Monday. “We have to look at it that way. They handed it to us pretty good this year, so we realize what we’re up against.
The Padres started their two victories in New York by hushing the crowd early. They were unable to quiet the “Let’s go Dodgers” chants on Tuesday.
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