The Los Angeles Dodgers are reigning solo on the high of the NL West after a 6-0 win over the San Diego Padres on Saturday. The shutout put the Dodgers at a 70-53 report, with the group shifting simply in entrance of the 69-54 Padres with the win at Dodger Stadium.

The win got here on the again of a stable night time from Teoscar Hernández, who had a homer and an RBI sacrifice fly. On the mound, Blake Snell threw six shutout innings for the Dodgers, notching 62 strikes in 96 pitches and permitting 5 hits.

It didn’t take lengthy for the Dodgers to get on the board, taking a 3-0 lead within the first inning. Hernández kicked off with a sacrifice fly that despatched Shohei Ohtani dwelling, earlier than Michael Conforto hit a two-run RBI single.

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Freddie Freeman added to that within the second inning, hitting one other two-run RBI off a fielding error. Within the fifth inning, a solo homer from Hernández his twentieth this season introduced L.A. to 6-0.

Padres starter Dylan Stop had a tricky begin to the sport, permitting six walks within the first two innings and letting the Dodgers run up a 5-0 lead. He additionally ended with three errors, and solely earned two strikes. Stop was taken out within the fourth inning after racking up 85 pitches, following Ohtani’s first hit of the sport.

After a 3-2 win over the Padres on Friday that ended a four-game dropping streak, the Dodgers formally lock up a sequence win. The 2 groups will face off once more on Sunday to complete the three-game sequence, with Yu Darvish is ready to start out for San Diego and Tyler Glasnow set to take the mound for L.A.

Nevertheless it gained’t be lengthy till they meet once more: The Dodgers and Padres are set to play one other three-game sequence in San Diego subsequent week.