Yu Darvish outdueled Blake Snell on Friday night and the San Diego Padres tied the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers for first place in the National League West with a 2-1 win.

Darvish (3-3) allowed just one run on one hit and one walk over six innings, striking out five. He retired 10 of the last 11 batters he faced in a successful bounce-back from his previous start against Los Angeles on Sunday, in which he went only four innings and permitted four runs.

San Diego’s vaunted bullpen took care of things over the last three innings. Jason Adam handled the seventh, Mason Miller worked around control issues in the eighth and Robert Suarez got the final three outs for his major-league-high 34th save.

Snell (3-2) pitched well enough to win, giving up two runs on six hits over seven innings and a

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