LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the early going
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ball was coming out of his hand, even though he wasn’t letting anyone on
base.“Around the third inning, the feel started coming around,” Hill said. “The
big thing was getting ahead and throwing strikes.”Hill allowed two hits over six
shutout innings, Chris Taylor, Justin Turner and Max Muncy homered, and the Los
Angeles Dodgers routed the San Diego Padres 11-1 on Friday night to snap a
three-game skid.Hill (6-4) retired his first 12 batters, seven of them on
strikeouts, before Hunter Renfroe doubled leading off the fifth.“There were a
few pitches I left out there,” Hill said. “Everything needs to be tightened up
as we move to September.”Hill added another strikeout and had one walk on 90
pitches in his first win since Aug. 7 at Oakland. The only other hit the veteran
left-hander gave up was a triple to Freddy Galvis in the sixth.“It’s
discouraging when you go into a game with a game plan and we swing at fast balls
up and out of the zone,” Padres manager Andy Green said. “You’re just not going
to get Rich Hill that way. It’s going to take discipline.”The last-place Padres
proved the antidote that the slumping Dodgers needed after scoring just six runs
while getting swept in three games by St. Louis. Los Angeles had lost nine of
its last 12 and 10 of 14
Dave Henderson Jersey , but the victory brought them back to .500 at home (33-33).“Just kind of getting that monkey off our back was big for us and
hopefully we can settle down and relax,” Turner said. “Offense is contagious.
When it goes good early, it goes really good. When there’s opportunities lost
early in the game it builds up anxiety.”The Dodgers pounded out 13 hits and
scored in each of the first five innings. Taylor homered on his first pitch from
Clayton Richard (7-11) in the third. Turner added a two-run shot on Richard’s
first pitch to him in the fourth, extending the lead to 7-0.Richard gave up
seven runs — six earned — and nine hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out three
and walked two.“It’s extremely disappointing to put your team in the hole like
that. I have no excuse,” Richard said. “It stinks to have an outing like that.”
Pinch-hitter Muncy slugged his team-high 29th homer, a two-run shot that made it
11-0, in the seventh. The Dodgers have an NL West-leading 179 homers this
season.The Dodgers scored four runs in the second on Cody Bellinger’s RBI
single, Brian Dozier’s RBI double down the third-base line and Turner’s RBI
single.Bellinger’s RBI double and Hill’s RBI single extended the lead to 9-0 in
the fifth.The Dodgers’ bullpen completed the four-hitter. Yimi Garcia gave up
two hits and allowed the Padres’ lone run on Galvis’ RBI double in the
eighth.The Padres have lost nine of 11 and fell to 4-10 against their NL West
rivals this season.TRAINER’S ROOMPadres: 3B Wil Myers returned to the lineup,
going 0 for 4. He had just one at-bat in the last two games after he was hit in
the face by a groundball in batting practice Wednesday. “I felt good,” he said.
“No problems with anything.”Dodgers: RHP Daniel Hudson (right forearm tightness)
went on the disabled list. … RHP Ross Stripling had his scheduled throwing
session pushed back to Saturday, when he will face hitters for one or two
innings. … RHP Garcia was reinstated from the DL after missing 43 games with
right forearm inflammation.AT HOME ON THE ROADGalvis has hit safely in his last
nine games at Dodger Stadium dating to Aug. 9
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