In a rubber match of the collection with a playoff-esque pitching matchup, the Dodgers fell to the Padres by a 6-1 rating, as a pair of dingers and the bats getting shutdown painted a well-recognized story. Granted, the Dodgers did relaxation guys like Will Smith and Max Muncy, however nonetheless it was fairly lifeless.

After their streak of not shedding a collection in August, the Dodgers have now misplaced three of their final 4 collection.

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Ryan Pepiot has had an excellent begin to his season up to now, permitting simply two runs in his 4 begins up to now. Effectively, he doubled the runs allowed tonight, although it’s laborious to be overly involved given how he appeared aside from that.

He gave up a solo shot to Juan Soto within the 1st and a three-run shot to Luis Campusano within the 4th, with each approaching 0-2 pitches that missed over the plate.

Soto's thirtieth Smash of the yr 💥 pic.twitter.com/9DBRGXRlNv

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) September 14, 2023

Gone Campy-ing ⛺️ pic.twitter.com/oocbxaK6AV

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) September 14, 2023

Except for that, he actually simply confronted one different menace after a lead-off double within the fifth, and the remainder of his outing was comparatively easy.

Not good, clearly, however no matter within the large image: 6 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 0 BB, 5 Ok, 90 Pitches

Ryan Pepiot strikes out the aspect and we are able to simply ignore that different batter. pic.twitter.com/JoR0Hh4bn2

— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) September 14, 2023

There’s not a lot else to recap trigger Blake Snell principally shut the Dodgers down. Effectively, except for Mookie Betts, who singled and stolen second to begin the sport for the Dodgers, then walked and stole second with two outs within the third. That was actually all he gave up within the sport. Six shutout innings.

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Sadly, the sport acquired extra out of hand, as Joe Kelly returned by giving up two walks and two singles for 2 runs whereas solely getting two outs. So it was 6-0 by the point Alex Vesia entered and ended that body. He then continued within the eighth, getting a pair of strikeouts in a clear body.

Shelby Miller then closed the sport out with a pair of strikeouts of his personal in a clear ninth.

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On the opposite aspect, the Dodgers went scoreless within the seventh and eighth, however broke up the shutout within the ninth behind Kolten Wong‘s fourth homer of the yr to make it 6-1.

That was the place it ended. Welp.

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*Both nonetheless taking part in or will play later.

After a break day tomorrow, the Dodgers will journey to Seattle for a collection in opposition to the Mariners, fortunately beginning at 4:10 PM HT/7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET. It’ll be one other playoff-esque matchup in Bobby Miller and George Kirby.