The Sports Xchange
Sep 28, 2017
LOS ANGELES -- Rich Hill earned his 12th win with an impressive seven-inning outing, and Los Angeles hitters clubbed the San Diego Padres for the third straight game in a 10-0 Dodgers win Wednesday
The Dodgers scored nine runs against the Padres in each of the first two games before topping that total Wednesday. Yasiel Puig (No. 27), Curtis Granderson (26) and Corey Seager (22) homered in the series finale, and catcher Austin Barnes had three hits, two of them doubles, and two RBIs.
The Dodgers' win was their 102nd of the season, tying the 1962 and 1974 teams for the most victories in a season since the franchise moved to Los Angeles. The Dodgers have clinched home-field advantage for the National League postseason, and their magic number to clinch home field should they reach the World Series is one.
The only hits Hill allowed were a one-out single in the third to Austin Hedges and a single by Yangervis Solarte in the seventh. He walked two and struck out 10.
Hill (12-8) is 9-5 in his past 16 starts with a 2.68 ERA, a 0.94 WHIP and 131 strikeouts in 100 2/3 innings.
Brandon McCarthy and Kenley Jansen each pitched an inning of relief to complete the shutout.
Clayton Richard (8-15) was tagged for eight hits, eight runs (six earned) and three walks in five innings. He fanned seven. Ten of the first 17 batters he faced reached base.
Solarte had two of the Padres' three hits.
The Dodgers led 8-0 after five and pushed the margin to 10 with back-to-back home runs by Granderson and Seager.
Los Angeles took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Chris Taylor reached on an error by shortstop Solarte, Corey Seager walked, and Justin Turner singled to load the bases.
Cody Bellinger hit a sacrifice fly for a run, and Seager scored on an Enrique Hernandez groundout. Taylor came out of the game as a precaution after hitting the first base bag awkwardly on the Solarte error.
The Dodgers made it 3-0 in the second, Barnes doubling to right and scoring on Hill's RBI single to left. It was Hill's fourth RBI of the season after he hadn't driven in a run since 2009.
Los Angeles blew the game open in the fourth, Hernandez, Logan Forsythe, Barnes and Puig stringing together four straight hits. Barnes had the big blow, a two-run double to the left field gap.
Puig hit his 27th home run of the season in the fifth to make it 8-0.
NOTES: Dodgers 1B Adrian Gonzalez woke up Wednesday with tightness in his back, and he will be out of the rest of the season. The veteran missed 67 games on two separate trips to the DL with a herniated disc, the first time in his career he went on the DL. ... Los Angeles CF Chris Taylor landed awkwardly on first base in the first inning and left the game as precaution. ... The Dodgers will start LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu on Friday and LHP Clayton Kershaw on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies. Kershaw will work with a modest pitch count. Yu Darvish and Alex Wood may make cameo appearances in the regular season finale Sunday. ... In 17 games against the Dodgers this season, Padres OF Hunter Renfroe hit .333 with 11 extra-base hits, five home runs and 15 RBIs. ... The Padres will start RHPs Jordan Lyles (1-4, 7.23 ERA), Jhoulys Chacin (13-10, 3.98) and Luis Perdomo (8-11, 4.6) in their final three games at San Francisco.