Kyle Tucker, Dalton Rushing and Mookie Betts all clouted homers in a nine-run sixth inning Saturday night as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers routed the San Diego Padres 15-3.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-5) got the win, allowing five hits and two runs over six innings while walking two and striking out four. The top of the sixth enabled him and Los Angeles to cruise through the game’s remainder.
A San Diego mistake ignited the fuse as second baseman Will Wagner booted a one-out grounder off Max Muncy’s bat that allowed Freddie Freeman to score from second. Tommy Edman tripled home Muncy for a 3-1 lead.
Tucker followed by jacking his seventh homer of the season into the seats in right, followed by Rushing’s ninth homer to right-center. Bulk reliever Randy Vasquez left after yielding a walk to Alex Freeland and a single to Shohei Ohtani.
Ron Marinaccio couldn’t slow the Dodgers down, either, allowing a run on Freeman’s grounder to second and then allowing a three-run blast off Betts’ bat. It was his 11th homer of the year and his third in as many games.
Vasquez (6-6) gave up eight hits and seven runs, five of them earned, in 3 1/3 innings with a walk and a strikeout. Opener Kyle Hart lasted two innings, permitting a run on two hits.
Los Angeles initiated scoring in the second when Muncy tripled past a diving Fernando Tatis Jr. in right and rode home on Edman’s double. Yamamoto made the lead stick until the fifth, when Gavin Sheets blasted a first-pitch fastball an estimated 414 feet to center for his 13th homer.
Sheets tacked on an RBI single in the sixth and Tatis knocked in a run with a seventh-inning single. In the eighth, the Dodgers tallied four more runs on Muncy’s bases-loaded infield hit, Edman’s groundout and a two-run single by Tucker.
Ryan Ward’s two-out RBI single off backup catcher Rodolfo Duran capped Los Angeles’ scoring in the ninth.
Tucker and Freeman each collected three of the Dodgers’ 17 hits, with Tucker knocking in four runs.
