With the Padres infield playing on the grass, Crawford slapped an RBI single into left field, extending the Dodgers’ lead to 3-0 before Shields could get out of the inning. Meanwhile, Kazmir continued to sail, bookending the bottom of the fourth with strikeouts of Spangengerg and Wil Myers.
Kazmir to that point retired 11 consecutive batters. Seager continued with his hot start to the season by lining a two-out hustle double to right-center field int he fifth. The young shortstop improved to 3-for-3 on the night with the extra-base hit.
However, Seager was stranded as Turner flied to right for the third out. Kazmir mowed through he Padres in the bottom half of the fifth, setting Norris, Solarte and Ramirez down in order. The southpaw’s strong performance carried into the sixth as Kazmir bookended the inning with strikeouts.
Despite only being at 75 pitches, Kazmir was pinch-hit for by Kiké Hernandez in the seventh. Kazmir finished with five strikeouts and one hit allowed over six scoreless innings. Hernandez reached on a two-out throwing error, but was stranded as Utley lined out.
Pedro Baez struck out two of three batters in the seventh to keep the Padres off the bases. Chris Hatcher followed suit by also collecting a pair of strikeouts as he set the Padres down in order in the eighth.
Fernando Rodney walked Pederson, who then stole second base to move into scoring position with two outs in the ninth. Rodney prevented the Dodgers from pushing across an insurance run by striking out Austin Barnes.
Kenley Jansen gave up a two-out infield single in the bottom of the ninth before sealing the Dodgers’ 3-0 win to convert his first save opportunity of the season.
