SAN DIEGO-- Fernando Tatis Jr. lost out on the
San Diego Padres' good times against the Dodgers last October.
So he tossed his own party Friday night.
Tatis drove in three runs with 2 crowning achievement off Clayton Kershaw, offering the locals in a sold-out Cinco de Mayo crowd the Dodger blue blood they yearned for and snapping the Dodgers' six-game winning streak with a 5-2 defeat.
Tatis missed out on the 2022 season due to take on surgery and an 80-game suspension for a failed PED test that bled over into this season. He returned simply 13 video games ago however muscle memory began against the Dodgers.
In 38 profession games versus the Padres' NL West neighbors, Tatis has actually hit 15 home runs. Friday was the ninth multi-homer video game in his career. Four of them have actually protested the Dodgers.
Tatis was just the biggest of Kershaw's issues Friday night. The left-hander was National League Pitcher of the Month for April and entered into the video game having actually allowed simply one earned run over his previous 20 innings.
He didn't make it through 5 innings in
San Diego. The 2 home runs to Tatis, Kershaw matched his previous season overall with 5 strolls the most he had enabled in a game since August 2019. Combined with the Padres' 8 hits, it produced a very first in Kershaw's career-- he had actually never ever permitted as lots of as 8 hits in a video game when he strolled so many.
Kershaw wasn't alone in discovering the strike zone difficult to find. Relievers Shelby Miller and Wander Suero each strolled the bases loaded during their inning and Dodgers pitchers strolled a season-high 11.
One story did carry over if Tatis wasn't part of the drama when the Padres disturbed the Dodgers in the playoffs last October.
The Dodgers were 5 for 34 with runners in scoring position (consisting of an 0-for-20 stretch), a key consider their early postseason departure. They had runners at 2nd and third with no outs in the first inning on Friday and got a one-out triple by Miguel Vargas in the 2nd inning. However they managed simply one run on a Max Muncy ground out, going 0 for 4 with RISP in the 2 innings.
Padres starter Yu Darvish settled in after that, travelling through the Dodgers' lineup over the next 4 innings. He retired 13 in a row before the Dodgers' next hit, a leadoff single by Will Smith in the seventh.
Smith scored on a double by Jason Heyward, Tatis bobbling the ball in his new house (ideal field).
The Dodgers stranded Heyward at 3rd, part of an 0-for-7 night with runners in scoring position. After scoring 50 runs throughout their ideal 6-0 homestand consisting of 36 in the last 3 video games, the Dodgers topped out at two Friday night.
More to come on this story.
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