Dodgers 7, Padres 6
Batter’s box: Ha-Seong Kim was 1-for-3 and scored the Padres’ first run in his final game before joining the South Korea team in Seoul in advance of the World Baseball Classic. … Brandon Dixon, competing for a bench spot, drove in the first two Padres runs — Kim with a sacrifice fly in the second inning and Brett Sullivan on a double that was windblown and that Dodgers left fielder Drew Avans lost in the sun in the eighth. Dixon plays the outfield and infield and is one of four Padres to play in all four Cactus League games. Dixon later scored on a wild pitch. … Outfielder David Dahl, also competing for a bench spot, was 1-for-3. … Outfielder Luis Liberato was 2-for-2. … Sullivan, likely the Padres’ primary catcher at Triple-A El Paso, gave the Padres a 4-3 lead with a double in the eighth inning.
Balls and strikes: Nabil Crismatt threw two scoreless innings, allowing two singles in his spring debut. Crismatt, expected to be the Padres’ primary long relief option at the start of the season, is scheduled to throw three innings Friday against the Cubs before transitioning to pitch for Colombia’s WBC team. … Reiss Knehr allowed two runs (one earned) on two hits and a walk in his first Cactus League game. Knehr is competing for a long relief spot and will, at worst, be part of El Paso’s starting rotation. … Luis Garcia, who figures to work primarily in the seventh and eighth innings this season, struck out one and walked one in his first spring appearance. … The Dodgers scored four runs in the ninth inning off Jake Sanchez, who last played affiliated ball in 2018.
Extra bases: Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux was carted off the field after injuring his right leg stumbling while running from second to third base in the sixth inning. The severity of Lux’s injury was not immediately known, as he was scheduled to have an MRI on Monday afternoon. … Six runs in the ninth inning (on three hits, four walks, a hit batter, two wild pitches and an error) contributed to the game lasting 3 hours, 5 minutes. After both of their first two games lasted around 21 ⁄2 hours, the Padres have played consecutive games that took longer than three hours.
On deck: Left-hander Jay Groome starts against the Giants, 12:05 p.m. at Scottsdale Stadium (BSSD; 97.3-FM). Groome, vying to make the team as a long reliever, allowed two hits and walked one in 12⁄3 scoreless innings in his spring debut.