When the Padres and Dodgers get together, the determining factor more often than not is which team's superstars have the better game. All weekend at Chavez Ravine, it was L.A.'s luminaries who stole the show.

Case-in-point: on Sunday afternoon Mookie Betts hit a solo home run off Robert Suarez in the 8th inning to give the Dodgers a 5-4 win and a three-game sweep that sends the Friars, who entered the series with a 1.0 game lead in the National League West, limping back to Petco Park a full 2.0 games back.

The Dodgers jumped on San Diego starter Yu Darvish in the very first inning. Freddie Freeman launched a 3-run home run to stake Los Angeles to a 3-0 lead. Darvish allowed four runs in the first inning but credit to the crafty veteran, he was able to get through three more innings unsca

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