SAN DIEGO -- Hits have been hard to come by for the Dodgers these past couple of days at Petco Park.

After managing only a trio of knocks in the series opener, Los Angeles' bats picked up just two hits in Saturday night's 5-1 loss , moving the Padres ahead by a game in the NL West standings .

Last weekend, the Dodgers entered their series against the Padres in second place and pulled off a sweep to end it alone in first. Since then, they have gone on to split four games against the MLB-worst Rockies and drop the first two against their primary competition in the division.

While it comes as somewhat of a surprise to the Dodgers that last weekend's sweep hasn't translated into momentum, they maintain that they didn't play their best baseball against the Padres then, either.

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