Luis Perdomo’s sinker lost a bit of its sink and whatever Rich Hill was throwing was missing a lot of Padres bats. That is not a good combination for the Friars.
San Diego didn’t get its first hit until the 6th inning and by that time the Dodgers had a lead that was too big to overcome, rolling to a 5-1 win.
Perdomo was coming off his first career complete game win and once again was throwing a lot of strikes. Unlike his last outing in Miami, however, this time he found a bit too much of the plate. The Dodgers scored four times in the 4th inning, three of them on a home run by L.A. catcher Yasmani Grandal.
Perdomo allowed one more run on a solo homer by Josh Reddick in the 6th inning. He finished with an interesting stat line, going 6.0 innings with nine hits, five runs, five strikeouts and no walks … and only threw 67 pitches. By today’s baseball standards that is a staggering display of pitch efficiency.
He threw 22 fewer pitches than Hill did in the same number of innings and Hill only allowed one hit, a single by Alexei Ramirez with two outs in the 6th. San Diego scored its only run in the 8th inning when Wil Myers drove in Luis Sardinas with a single.
The Padres can still win the series from the 1st place Dodgers with a win on Sunday when Christian Friedrich faces Jose De Leon.
