Over the first 24 innings of their weekend series at Petco Park, the Padres pitching staff held the Dodgers to four runs. Eventually the dam was going to burst, and it happened in the 7th inning on Sunday afternoon. L.A. scored five runs on a pair of backbreaking homers to get an 8-2 win, avoiding a sweep and creating yet another deadlock atop the National League West standings.

Nick Pivetta got the start for the Padres and he needs to buy Ramon Laureano a very nice dinner. In the 1st inning he had all kinds of trouble finding the strike zone with his fastball, walking two batters and allowing a single to Mooke Betts to load the bases with nobody out. Pitching coach Ruben Niebla went out for a chat and suddenly Pivetta was throwing his heater for strikes. But, he left one up to Teoscar He

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