SAN DIEGO —
For most of this season, the Dodgers have looked close to invincible.
In eight meetings with the San Diego Padres, however, they appeared anything but.
For the second time already this season, the Dodgers dropped a series to their intradivision rivals, falling to the Padres 4-0 in a Sunday rubber match at a sold-out Petco Park.
The reasons for this defeat weren’t difficult to diagnose. Shohei Ohtani was out with a tight back. Padres starter Yu Darvish cruised through seven scoreless innings. And, most of all, Walker Buehler struggled in his second start back Tommy John surgery, giving up three runs in just 3 u2153 innings.