San Diego Padres lose their season-high sixth straight game
By Joel Burdeos
San Diego, CA- Clayton Kershaw became the first 18-game winner in baseball as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the San Diego Padres 9-4 on Monday night. The Padres have now lost a season-high six straight games.
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The Dodgers scored the games first run on an RBI single by Hanley Ramirez in the first and an RBI double by Juan Uribe in the second inning to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.
The Padres would cut the Dodgers lead to 2-1 on an RBI single by Rene Rivera in the top of the fourth. But the Dodgers would match that run and extend their lead to 4-1 in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by Puig and an RBI groundout by A.J Ellis.
The Dodgers would blow the game open in the bottom of the 5th on an RBI single by Matt Kemp and a three-run home run by Carl Crawford to extend the Dodgers lead to 8-1.
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The Padres would scored two unearned runs off Clayton Kershaw, as after a fly-out to by Rene Rivera the Padres would score on throwing errors by Puig, catcher A.J. Ellis and shortstop Ramirez.
Odrisamer Despaigne fell to (3-6) on the season, after allowing seven runs on eight hits in only 4.1 innings of work. Despaigne continues to struggle on the road for the Padres. It will be interesting to see how the Padres view Despaigne heading into next season, as he has pitched very well at times and has also struggled mightily (especially on the road) at times this season.
Andrew Cashner, Ian Kennedy, Tyson Ross and Jesse Hahn are obviously locks to be in the rotation next season, which leaves Matt Wisler, Odrisamer Despaigne, Joe Wieland, Robbie Erlin and possibly Casey Kelly and Josh Johnson to battle for the 5th spot in the rotation.