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The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres have one of the more bitter rivalries in baseball. Even the managers seem to have some beef.
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and a member of his pitching staff spoke about San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller's comments.
The rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres has escalated into dangerous territory, and one voice from the Dodgers bench has made it clear that payback is on t
Luis Arraez’s eighth-inning sacrifice fly with the bases loaded brought the Padres to within a run, but Manny Machado popped out on the first pitch by Blake Treinen to end that inning and Ryan O’Hearn flied out to end the game with a the tying run on first base to snap the Padres’ five-game winning streak and the Dodgers’ four-game skid.
In one of their worst performances of the season, the Padres beat themselves in a shutout to the Dodgers, which reclaimed first place.
Mookie Betts hit a tiebreaking solo home run leading off the eighth inning after Los Angeles blew a four-run lead and the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 on Sunday to increase their NL West lead to two games.
The reality check ended with a heartbreaker. The Padres battled back little by little, got even in the top of the eighth inning, and then ran into the same old L.A. story. Mookie Betts’ home run leading off the bottom of the eighth inning against Robert Suarez was the difference in a 5-4 Dodgers victory that completed a sweep that flipped the order atop the National League West.