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Padres’ pitchers achieve rare feat against Dodgers in back-to-back games

Only Sonny Gray had held the Los Angeles Dodgers to one hit across at least six innings all season, per MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell. That is, until Padres’ pitchers Yu Darvish and Nestor Cortes did it on back-to-back nights.

Cortes spun 6.0 shutout innings of one-hit ball on Saturday night as San Diego overtook the Dodgers for the NL West lead with a 5-1 victory at Petco Park. Darvish did the same a day earlier, allowing one hit over six frames in a 2-1 series-opening win.

With 32 games left to play, the Padres are searching for their first division title since 2006.

San Diego’s pitching masterclass

Cortes, nicknamed Nasty, looked the part on Saturday by retiring the first 16 Dodgers he faced

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