Yu Darvish was cruising through the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup when Cody Bellinger came to the plate in the fifth inning. The slugger went down swinging on four pitches for Yu's 3,000th career strikeout in his professional career.
LOS ANGELES — Yu Darvish was cruising through the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup when Cody Bellinger came to the plate in the fifth inning. The slugger went down swinging on four pitches for Yu's 3,000th career strikeout in his professional career.
“It's a terrific season for him, just seems like he gets better as the season goes along,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said of Darvish. “It's his goal every game is try to get at least seven innings in. He's got multiple pitches, he can lean on different pitches at certain times.” Darvish trails countryman Hideo Nomo, who had 3,122 career strikeouts playing in Nippon Professional Baseball before becoming a star with the Dodgers in the mid-1990s. Darvish said Nomo was on “a different level” than him.
Coming off losing two of three at the New York Mets, the NL West leaders returned home and dropped their third in a row for the first time since mid-June. The high-scoring Dodgers managed just six baserunners through eight innings; three times it was Chris Taylor, who got on via two walks and a hit by pitch. He walked again in the ninth.Steven Wilson struck out one in a 1-2-3 eighth. Nabil Crismatt gave up a double to Justin Turner, who scored on Joey Gallo's single in the ninth.
Two batters later, Drury went deep to nearly the same spot for his 25th homer, scoring Jake Cronenworth, who was hit by May, and making it 4-0.Dodgers: RHP Tony Gonsolin had an MRI and the result was “as good as we could have hoped,” manager Dave Roberts said. The 16-game winner played catch. ... RHP Brusdar Graterol had an MRI although Roberts didn't yet know the results. ...
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