LOS ANGELES — This weekend at Dodger Stadium it is NL West Thunderdome – one first-place team enters, one first-place team leaves.

But for now there are two.

With six strong innings from Clayton Kershaw and three innings of nail-biting relief, the Dodgers ended a four-game losing streak and regained a share of first place in the National League West with a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.

The Dodgers landed the first blow in the six-games-in-10-days battle in a phone booth between the division rivals.

Kershaw made his only mistake of the night when he left a curveball to Ramon Laureano over the plate in the second inning. Laureano golfed it down the left field line, where it clipped off the outside of the foul pole for a solo home run.

Kershaw walked the next bat

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