Former Dodgers Manny Machado and Yu Darvish play key roles, and the San Diego bullpen stifles the Dodgers again in Game 2 to even the best-of-five series.
LOS ANGELES — Maybe this was the revenge of the ex-Dodgers. Maybe it was the law of averages. Maybe it was the strange sight of a goose in right field.
They’re happy, and popular, in San Diego, and they played significant roles in helping the Padres break serve. Machado hit a Clayton Kershaw slider 106.4 mph and 381 feet into the lower box seats down the left field line in the first inning, and that might have set a tone. Machado then scorched a Kershaw curveball for an RBI double in the third. And his hardest hit ball of the evening was an out in the fifth inning, a Kershaw four-seamer that he hit 108.
“They’re just executing their pitches really well,” Dodgers infielder Max Muncy said. “They’re not leaving a whole lot over the plate for us to hit. And, you know, we just – we’re not taking advantage of some situations that we have.” Notably, he didn’t mention the gap between the Dodgers’ 111 regular-season victories and his own team’s 89. No sense in going overboard.
Or the ball that Muncy hit over Juan Soto’s head in right field in the bottom of that inning, with Muncy inexplicably stopping at first rather than going to second.
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