Dodgers Drop 10 Runs in One Inning, Bury Padres 15-3
Los Angeles sent 13 batters to the plate in the sixth inning alone, turning a one-run game into a 10-1 rout before San Diego could blink. The Dodgers finished with 15 runs on the night, with four players going deep and the damage spread across nearly every spot in the lineup.
For four innings, this looked like a competitive game. Tommy Edman's second-inning double scored Muncy to put Los Angeles up 1-0, and Gavin Sheets answered in the fifth with a 414-foot shot to center that swung San Diego's home win probability from 30% to 47% — the biggest single-play momentum shift of the night. For a moment, the Padres had life. Then the sixth inning happened, and it happened all at once.
A fielding error by second baseman Wagner opened the floodgates. Freeman scored on the miscue, Edman followed with a triple to right to score Muncy, and then Kyle Tucker launched a 398-foot homer to right that plated Edman and made it 5-1. Dalton Rushing went back-to-back with a 399-foot shot to right center. A Freeman groundout scored another run. Then Mookie Betts capped the carnage with a 402-foot three-run blast to center — Ohtani and Pages both scoring — that pushed the lead to 10-1. Ten runs. One inning. The Padres managed two consolation runs in the sixth and seventh, but the game was long over. Los Angeles tacked on five more across the eighth and ninth, with Tucker singling home two in the eighth and a ninth-inning single finishing the scoring at 15-3.
The story of the night was the sheer depth of the damage. Tucker went 3-for-5 with a homer and 4 RBI. Betts added 3 RBI on his one hit. Edman drove in 3. Freeman went 3-for-5 and scored twice. Yoshinobu Yamamoto handled the pitching side cleanly, going 6.0 innings and allowing just 2 earned runs on 5 hits with 4 strikeouts — a workmanlike line that looks even better given what the offense built behind him. Sheets was the lone bright spot for San Diego, going 3-for-4 with a homer and 2 RBI, but one player's good night means nothing when the other team scores 15. At the midway point of the 2026 season, the Dodgers appear to be exactly what the power rankings say they are: the team everyone else is chasing.