After three days of rain and hours of delays in Washington, the Dodgers return home and blow a five-run lead in an 11-8 loss, their seventh defeat in the past 11 games.
LOS ANGELES — Somewhere over a rainbow beyond right field in the first inning on Monday night, the weather appeared to taunt the Dodgers again.After three days of rain and hours of delays in Washington, that was not a truce from the sky. What ensued was an offensive showdown as the Dodgers blew a five-run lead before Juan Soto hit a three-run home run in the ninth inning then sent a bat flip toward the clouds.
The Padres walked away with an 11-8 victory on the strength of 14 hits and sent the NL West-leading Dodgers to their seventh loss in the past 11 games. The loss came despite Mookie Betts hitting a leadoff home run, along with a three-run double. Max Muncy blasted a homer to the back of the right field bleachers. But Gavin Stone struggled as a rotation replacement for Clayton Kershaw and former Dodger Manny Machado hit two home runs for the Padres.The Padres’ ninth-inning rally came gift-wrapped by the Dodgers when center fielder James Outman and left fielder Chris Taylor bumped while trying to make a catch on the warning track.
When it was over, the Dodgers lost for just the third time in 11 games against the Padres this season. Stone gave up seven runs on nine hits over 5⅓ innings with an oddly efficient 65 pitches in just his second start after the Fourth of July as the Dodgers try to patch the holes in their staff left by
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