LOS ANGELES — Not anything will ever remove from the San Diego Padres’ impressed triumph latter October, however the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dominance over them — all through the steady season, a minimum of — continues.

Saturday’s 4-2 defeat at Dodger Stadium marked the eleventh consecutive month the Padres have misplaced a regular-season sequence to the Dodgers, relationship to the 2021 season. The Padres went 5-14 towards the Dodgers latter season earlier than defeating Los Angeles in 4 video games all through the Nationwide League Category Form.

Regardless of signing Xander Bogaerts for a 2023 season that will additionally constituent the go back of Fernando Tatis Jr., the Padres have misplaced 4 in their first 5 video games this season towards their sour section competitors.

Joe Musgrove, the shedding pitcher Saturday for San Diego, is “tired of hearing that s—.”

“I think we, as a group in here, got to stop talking about these guys like they’re that unbeatable force,” Musgrove mentioned. “We beat these guys in the playoffs, we beat them in big situations. We’re just not playing very well right now.”

The Padres, who’ve Primary League Baseball’s third-highest payroll, input Sunday’s sequence finale six video games at the back of the first-place Dodgers within the NL West with a 19-21 file this season and a minus-6 run differential.

“We feel like we have a better team than them,” Musgrove mentioned. “We’re just not playing to our capabilities right now on both sides of the ball.

“We’re give up well timed hits to their hitters, we’re no longer getting the well timed hits on our aspect. Baseball’s no longer that tough of a game. We all know what must be achieved — we’re simply no longer doing what we want to do.”

The biggest culprit has been San Diego’s highly touted offense, which ranked 18th in the majors in OPS and 25th in runs per game as of Sunday morning. The Padres’ .203 batting average with runners in scoring position is the worst in the majors.

“We simply were given to journey in the market and retain taking part in, retain grinding,” Padres outfielder Juan Soto said. “I in reality don’t know what can backup to cure these items.”

Soto, who has regained his form offensively in recent weeks, joined Ha-Seong Kim in providing the solo home runs that accounted for all of the Padres’ offensive production Saturday against Julio Urias and the Dodgers’ bullpen. The rest of the lineup went a combined 2-for-26, with both of those hits coming in the ninth inning.

The Padres have dropped back-to-back series against the Dodgers on back-to-back weekends, though each of those first five games was decided by three runs or fewer. If not for a ninth-inning, two-out, game-tying home run from Mookie Betts last Sunday, the Padres would have won the first series.

“A lot of these video games had been akin,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “We’re one sound clear of taking the sequence at our position, and the 1st two video games right here they only performed higher than we did and were given larger hits.”

The Padres and Dodgers gained’t meet once more till August and can finally end up taking part in best 13 regular-season video games towards one any other on account of MLB’s balanced time table this season.