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05/18 23:07 CDT Michael King's strong start, Mason Miller's big finish send
Padres to 1-0 victory over Dodgers
Michael King's strong start, Mason Miller's big finish send Padres to 1-0
victory over Dodgers
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) --- Miguel Andujar homered off Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the first
inning, Michael King struck out nine during seven sharp innings of four-hit
ball, and the San Diego Padres snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers' five-game
winning streak with a 1-0 victory Monday night.
Mason Miller finished the Padres' five-hitter in their fourth consecutive
victory, but only after San Diego's vaunted closer walked his first two batters
on nine pitches. Miller recovered to get three straight outs for his major
league-leading 15th save, inducing Andy Pages' grounder to third to end it.
Andujar had two of the four hits by the Padres in the opener of a nine-game
homestand after an impressive sweep of Seattle last weekend.
Shohei Ohtani had two hits for the Dodgers in a pitching-dominated first game
of the season between these Southern California rivals.
King (4-2) yielded two walks while reaching season highs in strikeouts and
innings, throttling a Dodgers lineup that had scored 40 runs in its past five
games, including 31 in its three-game weekend sweep in Anaheim.
World Series MVP Yamamoto (3-4) was almost as sharp, yielding three hits and
two walks while striking out eight with no run support.
Andujar came up second in the first inning and delivered a solo shot for his
fourth homer of the season, but Yamamoto settled in and allowed only two
singles the rest of the way.
King allowed two baserunners in the first five innings on a single and a walk,
but catcher Rodolfo Durn promptly threw out both Mookie Betts and Ohtani when
they tried to steal second.
Hyeseong Kim and Ohtani reached base with two outs in the eighth against
reliever Jason Adam, but Betts grounded to short.
Up next Griffin Canning (0-2, 10.64 ERA) will attempt to bounce back from consecutive rough outings for the Padres on Tuesday. Emmet Sheehan (3-1, 4.54 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB |
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