The Dodgers and Padres are tied atop the National League West with 33 games remaining on the regular season schedule. San Diego pulled even with a 2-1 win on Friday night at Petco Park.

Blake Snell took the tough-luck loss despite allowing only two runs and pitching into the seventh inning for the first time this season. He had the 11th start of at least seven innings by a Dodgers pitcher this season. Since his return from the injured list, Snell has a 1.96 ERA and 29.2-percent strikeout rate in 23 innings over four starts.

Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus this week tried to define a Snell Test on a variety of factors including various rates within the strike zone.

“To watch Blake Snell pitch is to understand powerlessness,“ Dubuque wrote. ”And powerlessness in Snell himself, who

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