The San Diego Padres sent the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers to the brink of postseason elimination with a 6-5 victory in a roller-coaster Major League Baseball playoff clash. A wild game at an electric Petco Park saw Los Angeles take a first-inning lead through a Mookie Betts solo home run before the Padres punished multiple Dodgers fielding blunders to erupt for six runs in the second inning. The Dodgers recovered from that second inning disaster to get within one run after Teoscar Hernandez blasted a towering grand slam off Padres starter Michael King to make it 6-5 in the top of the third.
Watch the MLB Postseason and the World Series LIVE on ESPN via Kayo. Sign up today! But after that early frenzy of scoring, the Padres pitching unit took over and closed out a win, which gives them the chance to seal victory in the best-of-five National League Division Series in game four on Wednesday (US time). It looms as another playoff failure for the megabucks Dodgers who have dominated baseball’s marathon regular season for over a decade, with huge payrolls allowing them to sign superstars galore, but they have just one championship to show for it.
Since being bought by the Guggenheim Group in 2012, the Dodgers have won their division every year except one - when they went a ridiculous 106-56 but finished behind the San Francisco Giants, who went 107-55 - and have frequently had the best record in baseball. But they have just one World Series title, claimed in 2020, and have b.
