The San Diego Padres took on the the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday at Dodger Stadium with the Padres coming out on top 10 to 5. You don’t often see such high scoring games, and anyone with Dodgers tickets sure got their money’s worth. This high-scoring game saw the teams combine for a whopping 15 runs! Talk about excitement! Not much compares to America’s Pastime so stock up on cheap baseball tickets and see all the fun live.
Padres pitcher Jon Garland (2.38 ERA) got the win, while Ramon Ortiz (6.30 ERA) took the loss for the Dodgers. Jon Garland went 5 innings for the Padres, allowed 9 hits, no home runs and 4 earned runs with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Padres was Edward Mujica (3.43), Luke Gregerson (1.99), and Ryan Webb (1.29). The Dodgers’s starter Ramon Ortiz went 3.1 innings, allowed 6 hits, no home runs and 5 earned runs with 3 walks and one strikeout. Ramon Troncoso (4.79), Jeff Weaver (3.48), Carlos Monasterios (1.90), and George Sherrill (7.71) also pitched for the Dodgers. With the win, Garland’s record goes to 5-2, while Ortiz is at 1-2.
Adrian Gonzalez provided much of the offense for the Padres with an incredible 6 runs batted in. In addition to the 10 runs, the Padres scored 14 hits and committed no errors. Will Venable led the Padres in hitting with 4 hits, followed by Adrian Gonzalez’s 3 hits, and David Eckstein with 2. Yorvit Torrealba had a tough day at the plate, leaving 6 runners on base. Casey Blake had the most hits for the Dodgers (3), followed by Reed Johnson (2), and Xavier Paul (2). Matt Kemp could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Dodgers scored 5 runs, 12 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Phil Cuzzi, Jerry Crawford, Chris Guccione and Brian O’Nora. There were 40,138 Dodgers ticket holders in attendance at Dodger Stadium.
The win puts the Padres at a record of -, ( games behind first place in the division), while the loss brings the Dodgers to -, ( games behind the division leader). Next up for the Padres are the (-) at the Dodgers’s Dodger Stadium. If you are in the area you might want to check out what’s available for tickets because that game should be a good one. The Dodgers will next take on the (-) at Dodger Stadium in what should be a very good game of MLB baseball. Buy your tickets today and see it all live.