Padres blanked at Dodger Stadium as skid hits eight video games

LOS ANGELES — A lead-off stroll wound up nicking Griffin Canning within the third inning Saturday night time.

That was all the assistance Yoshinobu Yamamoto wanted to maintain the Padres spiraling towards the All-Star break.

With the sounds of fireworks echoing all through Chavez Ravine all through America’s 250th birthday, the Padres managed no firepower of their very own a 3-0-loss that despatched them to an eighth straight loss, their longest skid since a 10-gamer in the summertime of 2013.

“It’s just not blending together,” proper fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. stated. “Canning had an ideal sport as we speak and we couldn’t again him up. We’re grinding away.

“It ain’t no fun right now.”

Not within the least.

Every week in the past, the Padres have been using a four-game successful streak assembled by way of a house sweep of the Braves and a win over the Dodgers at Petco Park.

Then they gave up 15 runs in a laugher, misplaced a two-run ball sport within the sequence finale, have been walked off at Wrigley Field to start out the highway journey, misplaced a 9-7 slugfest after which couldn’t preserve the Cubs out of the top zone in a 23-3 embarrassment.

It received worse from there, if you happen to can imagine it, with the Padres dropping a 6-0 lead in Thursday’s 12-7 loss and a grand slam off Adrián Morejón erasing Michael Kiung’s gem on Friday.

“There’s definitely a tone to when games happen where you feel like, man, we had that game won, and then you lose the game,” Padres supervisor Craig Stammen stated. “It’s my job because the supervisor and our job as a training employees and all people inside this group of the Padres to smile at one another, preserve a constructive mild, and know that tomorrow it may change.

“You know, it didn’t change today, but tomorrow it could change, and we got to believe in that.”

Another loss on Sunday would hand the Padres their first 0-for highway journey of a minimum of six video games since dropping three every in Houston and Chicago on a visit in 2009.

This depressing sojourn has dropped the Padres (43-45) two video games beneath .500, into third place within the NL West and 5 video games out of a wild-card spot, with 5 groups to leapfrog in the event that they ever get their act collectively.

The Padres sat as many as 11 video games over .500 on May 23. Now, after a six-game skid in the beginning of June and this prolonged dropping streak to start out the ultimate month earlier than the commerce deadline, their odds to make the postseason sat at 13.1% to start out Saturday, in accordance with fangraphs.com.

“The biggest thing is that you try to shorten this as much as you can,” left fielder Gavin Sheets stated. “You go in tomorrow and stay in the present and win the game at hand. You can’t make up eight games in one game. It’s like when you’re slumping at the plate. You can’t get three hits in one at-bat. You’ve got to take what’s in the moment and start tomorrow.”

Canning’s effort in bulk reduction was a minimum of admirable for an overtaxed pitching employees as he held baseball’s greatest group to at least one run in 4 innings after left-hander Wandy Peralta opened the sport with a scoreless body.

To say nothing of the offense’s no-show, the loss, nevertheless, was completely self-induced after Canning walked Dalton Rushing to start out the third inning, allowed a single to the following hitter and put runners in scoring place with a wild pitch.

Andy Pages cashed in one of many runs with a single via the left facet of the infield. Canning stranded the opposite runner and pitched two extra frames to decrease his ERA from 7.09 to six.71.

“I think it’s one to build off,” Canning stated after placing out 4 and permitting two hits and two walks. “I executed a lot of pitches, had a good pitch mix. Just kind of on the same page with (Luis Campusano) back there.”

The Dodgers prolonged their lead within the sixth inning when the left-handed-hitting Freddie Freeman greeted left-hander Kyle Hart with a homer to left. Freeman tacked on one other run off All-Star nearer Mason Miller — getting work in his first sport since June 29 — with an RBI single after Miller hit Tommy Edman with a wild, bouncing slider to start out the eighth inning.

The Padres had one actual probability to get to Yamamoto.

Not that it was an ideal probability.

Tatis singled via the left facet of the infield on the primary pitch of the sport. He received to 3rd base on Sheets’ two-out single, however Ty France struck out to finish the inning.

Xander Bogaerts led off the second inning with a single. The Padres didn’t get one other hit off Yamamoto (7 IP, 0 ER, 2 BBs, 10 Ks) and didn’t get one other hit interval till Tatis’ two-out double off right-hander Brock Stewart with two outs within the eighth.

But left-hander Alex Vesia struck out Jake Cronenworth on three pitches to finish the eighth and right-hander Will Klein retired the facet so as within the ninth to seal the Padres’ longest dropping streak in 13 years.

Five of the losses have been by the hands of the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers, who’ve opened a 15-game lead in making a mockery of what had change into baseball’s most spirited rivalry lately.

“It’s no fun,” Tatis stated. “We better step up. If not, we’re just going to get rolled over.”