The primary assembly of the 2025 season between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers proved to be well worth the wait. Each groups put up runs, and the sport went to further innings earlier than the Dodgers received the sequence opener 8-7 at Petco Park in 10 innings, Monday.
The sport was tied 6-6 after 9 innings after which Dodgers began the highest of the tenth inning with Max Muncy as the automated runner on second base. Wandy Peralta took the mound for the Padres after nearer Robert Suarez labored a scoreless ninth inning.
Peralta confronted Andy Pages and the necessity for San Diego to establish and purchase an day-after-day left fielder was highlighted with one swing of the bat. Pages hit a line drive into left discipline and Brandon Lockridge misjudged the flight of the ball and watched because it sailed over his head and bounced off the wall. Muncy got here in to attain and Pages changed him at second base and Los Angeles took a 7-6 lead.
Tommy Edman adopted with a single again via the center of the infield that hit second base and redirected into proper discipline. Edman reached on a single and Pages scored to present the Dodgers an 8-6 lead. Peralta was in a position to report three outs over the subsequent three batters and the Padres took their shot to tie or probably win the sport within the backside of the tenth.
Luis Arraez began the inning as the automated runner for San Diego and Manny Machado stepped in to face former Padre, Tanner Scott. Machado labored the rely full, however the seven-pitch at-bat ended with him being known as out on strikes on a ball that appeared to have been exterior.
Jackson Merrill confirmed simply how essential the missed name was when he lined a double into right-center discipline to attain Arraez from second, making the rating 8-7. Moderately than the Padres having a potential tie sport, or at minimal runners at second and third with no outs, they’d Merrill on second with one out.
Gavin Sheets popped out to 3rd for the second out of the inning and Xander Bogaerts got here up with an opportunity to tie the sport. The a lot maligned shortstop, who has taken criticism from followers for not dwelling as much as his $280 million contract, fell to an 0-2 rely earlier than hitting a weak line drive to heart discipline to finish the inning and the sport in disappointing vogue.
The sport felt like a playoff matchup all through and there have been massive moments on the mound and on protection for either side. A kind of moments got here within the high of the eighth inning when Adrian Morejon obtained Shohei Ohtani to hit a tapper again to the mound that appeared to be the third out of the inning. Morejon stepped towards first and yanked the throw to the correct of Arraez, permitting Ohtani to succeed in. San Diego then deliberately walked Mookie Betts and Morejon struck out Freddie Freeman to finish the inning.
The Padres and Dodgers offenses delivered punches all through the competition and Tyler Wade appeared to be the hero within the early a part of the sport. Wade stepped up with two out and the bases loaded within the backside of the third inning. He lined a ball previous Teoscar Hernandez in right-center discipline that resulted in a bases clearing triple and a 6-5 lead for San Diego.
Ultimately, regardless of the loss for the Padres, the sport delivered what many have come to anticipate when these NL West rivals meet. They are going to be again in motion for Sport 2 of the sequence, Tuesday at 6:40 p.m.
