Dodgers Drop the Padres, 2-0

Following a week in which the Dodgers failed to score a single run, the Blue took it out on the Padres for the second night in a row, bettering their home record to 19-5.

Newly acquired Mike Bolsinger pitched the game of his life, calmly and surgically mowing down the Padres for a 2-0 victory. He allowed just one hit in only his fourth start in the majors.

Bolsinger threw 92 pitches, 60 of them strikes. He gave up a single to Yangervis Solarte in the first at-bat, and  then there was complete radio silence after that.

The game was a quick one, with only 27 San Diego batters coming to the plate, and ending in a little over 2 hours.

Joc Pederson got the Dodgers in the sports section early, sending a 2-1 pitch into the center right bleachers in the bottom of the first for an early 1-0 lead. It was his 12th of this year.

Adrian Gonzales, honored with a Bobblehead, scored the second run in the sixth inning, as he scampered furiously home all the way from first on a double by Justin Turner.

“It kinda felt like a blur,” Bolsinger laughed after the game. I think it didnt feel real until I fell down grabbing that bunt ( in the eighth), to throw to first.”

Mattingly was quietly proud of his pitcher, saying, “We knew what he could do, he pitched well against us last year, when he was at Arizona.”

“I left him alone up there,” he said of his own coaching. “I don’t like to say anything to pitchers. He had a good rhythm. I felt good.”

The Dodgers scored six hits against the Padres, finally finding rain after a parched week.

Kanley Jansen also continued his masterful relief work, quieting the Padres 1-2-3 in the top of the ninth.

The teams return to Chavez Ravine tomorrow, and then the Dodgers head out of town.

We’re sold out. It’s the second game of a three-game series against the Padres. The Dodgers beat the Padres last night 2-1. Tonight it’s righthander Mike Bohlsinger against the Padres’ Ian Kennedy.

Oh, it’s also Adrian Gonzales Bobblehead Night.

 

Game Time 7:09 p.m.

Attendance  53,479

FIRST INNING

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Yangervis Solarte (I have to type that all night?) takes the first pitch for a ball, as Bohlsinger goes 2-1, then promptly singles to short right field.

Cory Spangenberg (I have to type that all night?) hits into a double play.

The Dodger Formerly Known as Matt Kemp grounds out to first.

Padres 0, Dodgers coming up.

Bottom

Joc Peterson Goes 0-2, then homers into the right field bleachers.

Jimmy Rollins singles to right.

Kendrick grounds to first, Rollins scampers to second.

Adrian Gonzales strikes out.

Justin Turner strikes out.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

SECOND INNING

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Los Padres go uno, dos, tres.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

Bottom

Andre Ethier singles to right on a fielding error.

Scott Van Slyke singles right over there to short right.

AJ Ellis singles to first to get the bases all loaded up, and what not.

Pitcher Mike Bolsinger quietly strikes out.

Joc Pederson goes to 1-2, then strikes out.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

THIRD INNING

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Will Middlebrooks grounds out to first on a lovely throw by Rollins.

Austin Hedges grounds it to first.

Ian Kennedy strikes out, like a person striking out.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

BOTTOM

Rollins flies out to left. Not him personally.

Kendrick runs to first. Turns out the ball was already there.

Adrian Gonzales, he of El Noche Bobblehead, flies out to short right.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

FOURTH INNING

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Solarte grounds out to first.

Spangenberg strikes out.

Matt Kemp gets himself strucken out.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

BOTTOM

Justin Turner grounds out to first like a cigarette stub.

Andre Ethier goes to 2-1, then sends one to deep right, where a man in a baseball cap catches it.

Scott Van Slyke comes to bat to the music of Led Zeppelin , and goes to 1-1, then 2-2, 3-2. It’s as if the count is full. He hits a hot one right at Spangenberg, who throws him right out.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

FIFTH INNING

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Justin Upton is so out at first.

The venerable Will Venable couldn’t be more out if he was standing in the parking lot. Lot 21.

And the same goes for Todd Gyorko.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

BOTTOM

AJ Ellis, he of the infrequent hits, flies out.

Bolsinger flies out to first base.

Pederson strikes out, but there is a seriously excellent wave going on right now.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

SIXTH INNING

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Middlebrooks strikes out.

Austin Hedges ( a seriously cool name)  strikes out. Still a cool name, though, bro.

Ian Kennedy lays down a perfect bunt, and that gets him shot down perfectly at first.

Dodgers 1, San Diego 0

Bottom

Rollins takes the count to 3-2, then flies out to short center.

Kendrick goes 0 for 3 tonight with a ground out to first.

Gonzales singles to first.

Turner doubles to deep center, it gets bobbled, so to speak, and Gonzales scores all the way from first base.

Ethier, working on a itty-bitty hitting streak, gets some chin music from Kennedy, and the count is 2-2, with Turner on second, all restless and whatnot. Ethier strikes out.

Dodgers 2, San Diego 0.

SEVENTH INNING

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Solarte is way out.

Spangenberg strikes out. Bolsinger has given up only one hit so far.

Matt Kemp is gunned down at first base.

Dodgers 2, San Diego 0.

BOTTOM

(The sell-out crowd does a fine job on “Take me Out to the Ball Game,” and gives itself a standing ovation.)

Scott Van Slyke. Beard. Led Zeppelin. 0-1. 1-1.1-2. Strike out.

AJ Ellis flies out.

Bolsinger strikes out really quick-like.

EIGHTH INNING

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Upton is up. He strikes out and goes, “Wha..?”

Venable drops one in front of Bolsinger, who falls to his knees to grab it, and fires to first. Upton argues the call and gets himself thrown out of the game.

Gyorko, (“Jedd, not “Todd”) strikes out.

Dodgers 2, San Diego 0.

Bottom

Pederson strikes out on his way to the dugout to sit down.

Rollins strikes out.

NINTH

Kenley Jansen comes in to relieve Bolsinger, who has been a lawn mower tonight.

Middlebrooks looks at 1-2 from Jansen, who strikes him out directly.

Pinch Hitter Derek Norris flies out to Gonzales.

Everyone is standing.

Almonte is snipered at first on a throw by Turner .

NINTH

Kenley Jansen comes in to relieve Bolsinger, who has been a lawn mower tonight.

Middlebrooks looks at 1-2 from Jansen, who strikes him out directly.

Pinch Hitter Derek Norris flies out to Gonzales.

Everyone is standing.