Dodgers pull away in 12th, beat Padres 11-6
SAN DIEGO — Corey Seager hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer on Tim Hill’s first pitch of the 12th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 11-6 Friday night in a tense, entertaining first matchup this season between NL West rivals who have visions of deep playoff runs.
It took 4 hours, 57 minutes to decide this one, which ended early Saturday morning. The benches emptied after Dodgers reliever Dennis Santana hit Jorge Mateo with a pitch to put runners on the corners with one out in the 10th. Trent Grisham walked to load the bases, but Santana
struck out Fernando Tatis Jr. to escape.
Seager homered to center field, his second, with Mookie Betts on second base after making the last out of the 11th. The Dodgers added three more runs in the inning, including a sacrifice fly by reliever David Price (1-0) that was caught by Musgrove, who took over in left field after the Padres
ran out of relievers.
Left fielder Jurickson Profar moved to second base as Jake Cronenworth took over on the mound. He got the final two outs, including striking out Betts to end the inning.
Hill (0-2) allowed five runs, three earned, and four hits in 1 1/3 innings.
After the Dodgers went ahead 6-5 in the ninth when Justin Turner singled in Betts, the Padres tied it at 6 with two outs in the ninth when Eric Hosmer singled home Manny Machado.
The Padres had tied the game at 5 on Profar’s oppositefield, two-run double to left in the eighth inning off Corey Knebel.
Tatis returned from the 10day injured list in a big way when he homered to center field off Walker Buehler for a 2-1 lead in the fifth.
But Tatis’ throwing error from shortstop contributed to the Dodgers scoring three runs in the sixth on two singles, a walk and a wild pitch. With runners on first and third and two outs, Tatis made a nice diving stop of Chris Taylor’s RBI infield single and his throw to second went past Cronenworth, who was late covering the bag. Max Muncy scored on the error and Taylor scored on Keone Kela’s wild pitch for a 4-2 lead.