Padres blanked at Dodger Stadium as skid hits eight games

Jeff Sanders, The San Diego Union-Tribune on Jul 5, 2026

Published in Baseball

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LOS ANGELES — A leadoff walk wound up nicking Griffin Canning in the third inning Saturday night.

That was all the help Yoshinobu Yamamoto needed to keep the Padres spiraling toward the All-Star break.

With the sounds of fireworks echoing throughout Chavez Ravine throughout America’s 250th birthday, the Padres managed no firepower of their own in a 3-0-loss that sent them to an eighth straight loss, their longest skid since a 10-game losing streak in the summer of 2013.

Another loss on Sunday would hand the Padres their first winless road trip of at least six games since losing three each in Houston and Chicago on a trip in 2009.

This miserable trip has dropped the Padres (43-45) two games under .500, into third place in the NL West and five games out of a wild-card spot, with five teams to leapfrog if they ever get their act together.

The Padres sat as many as 11 games over .500 on May 23. Now, their odds to make the postseason sat at 13.1% to start Saturday, according to fangraphs.com.

Canning’s effort in bulk relief was at least admirable for an overtaxed pitching staff as he held baseball’s best team to one run in four innings after left-hander Wandy Peralta opened the game with a scoreless frame.

To say nothing of the offense’s no-show, the loss, however, was entirely self-induced after Canning walked Dalton Rushing to start the third inning, allowed a single to the ensuing hitter and put runners in scoring position with a wild pitch.

Andy Pages cashed in one of the runs with a single through the left side of the infield. Canning stranded the other runner and pitched two more frames to lower his ERA from 7.09 to 6.71.

The Dodgers extended their lead in the sixth inning when the left-handed-hitting Freddie Freeman greeted left-hander Kyle Hart with a homer to left. Freeman tacked on another run off All-Star closer Mason Miller — getting work in his first game since June 29 — with an RBI single after Miller hit Tommy Edman with a wild, bouncing slider to start the eighth inning.

The Padres had one real chance to get to Yamamoto.

Not that it was a great chance.

Fernando Tatis Jr. singled through the left side of the infield on the first pitch of the game. He got to third base on Gavin Sheets’ two-out single, but Ty France struck out to end the inning.

Xander Bogaerts led off the second inning with a single. The Padres did not get another hit off Yamamoto (7 IP, 0 ER, 2 BBs, 10 Ks) and didn’t get another hit period until Tatis’ two-out double off right-hander Brock Stewart with two outs in the eighth.

But left-hander Alex Vesia struck out Jake Cronenworth on three pitches to end the eighth and right-hander Will Klein retired the side in order in the ninth.

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