Adrian Gonzalez's solo homer starts a rally that ends with the Dodgers in the losing column.
Gonzalez's began the three-run rally in the eighth inning that carried the San Diego Padres to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday.
Closer Heath Bell got out of a jam in the ninth and the Padres salvaged a split of an opening, four-game series against the defending NL West champion Dodgers. The Dodgers had been working on a combined three-hitter before Gonzalez's one-out, opposite-field homer off the facade of the second deck in left-center pulled San Diego to 3-2.
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