Padres 5, Dodgers 3: Late comeback attempt falls short as the benches clear yet again

Chad Moriyama 06/19/2025 Game Recaps Leave A Comment

After taking the first three games of the series with two pen games and a piggyback game, this seemed like the best chance for the Dodgers to win one with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound against the Padres. However, baseball will be baseball.

Naturally.

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For the most part, the issue was the offense just couldn’t score, at least until later in the game. But the main story will be the benches clearing again after a string of hit batters, though the end result is just a 5-3 loss.

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto started off rough, giving up a ton of hard contact early and getting fortunate things weren’t worse. However, he did give up a solo shot to Xander Bogaerts in the 2nd that gave the Padres a 1-0 lead.

To say he rebounded in the 3rd would be an understatement, as he actually had an immaculate inning that was robbed from him on a blown call.

After a scoreless 4th, he faced some unfortunate luck in the 5th, as a bounding grounder to third resulted in an infield single when Max Muncy couldn’t get it out of his glove, and another high bouncer snuck through the whole on the right side to corner the runners with nobody out. A Jose Iglesias sacrifice fly followed to make it 2-0 before he was able to get out of the inning.

While he got a scoreless 6th and tried to get the 7th, he started there with a back-to-back doubles to make it 3-0 Padres. After he got the next batter, that was the end of the line for him. No walks is an improvement, but still didn’t look as sharp as he was before: 6.1 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 100 Pitches.

Lou Trivino entered and barely escaped the frame by getting the final two outs, but notably hit Bryce Johnson in the knee. He had to be removed, and that was Trivino’s second HBP of the series. It inflamed tensions, which would be relevant later.

Jack Little then took over to make his MLB debut and had a bit of a disaster, giving up a triple, three singles, and walking a run in to make it 5-0 in the 8th.

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Meanwhile, none of that really mattered because the Dodgers didn’t score. Ryan Bergert, Adrian Morejon, Jeremiah Estrada, and Jason Adam cruised through eight scoreless frames and basically got Dave Roberts to surrender the game by taking most of his starters out.

That’s when things got messy, as Little continued in the 9th and hit Fernando Tatis Jr. in the hand area. That led to Mike Shildt rushing out to yell at the Dodgers dugout, Roberts to then come out yelling as well, even bumping Shildt, and the benches cleared.

After all that, Little completed the inning, but that wasn’t the end of the drama.

Sean Reynolds tried to get the 9th, but walked two and gave up a flyball to the track. That summoned Robert Suarez for the save, but he gave up a Tommy Edman single for a run and another run scored on a groundball for the second out.

So it was 5-2, and Shohei Ohtani was up. He got behind 3-0, and rather than walking him, Suarez just smoked Ohtani in the shoulder/head area, which was pretty obviously intentional. Figured he was gonna walk him anyway, and Miguel Rojas was on deck, so why not smoke the guy for your teammate, basically. Pretty common way to do it.

Shohei, for his part, didn’t seem to give a shit.

Credit to him, but intentional or not, that’s twice now they went up to that area on the Dodgers, so the Padres can complain all they want like they’re the victims in all this, but they’re the ones doing it wrong.

None of their arguments make sense to me.

Amusingly, after Suarez was ejected, Yuki Matsui entered and walked Rojas to load things up. A run scored on a dead-ball where Martin Maldonado lost a ball in his gear to make it 5-3 and put the tying run in scoring position, but Dalton Rushing struck out on strike five of the at-bat on a 3-2 count to end the game.

Unfortunate.

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NL WestRecordGB
Dodgers46-30–
Giants42-333.5
Padres40-345.0

The Dodgers get right back at it tomorrow for a three-game series against the Nationals at 4:10 PM HT/7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET on MLB Network. It’ll be Clayton Kershaw looking to get them back on track against MacKenzie Gore.

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