SAN DIEGO — Walker Buehler pitched one-run ball into the sixth inning for a victory over his former team, Ty France hit an early three-run homer and the San Diego Padres beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on Friday night for their fourth consecutive win.<\/p>\n
Buehler (5-3) yielded three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in his second career start against the Dodgers<\/a>, his employers for his first decade in pro baseball. He made two All-Star teams and won two championship rings in Dodger Blue, recording the last out of the 2024 World Series<\/a> in his final appearance.<\/p>\n Mookie Betts homered for the major league-leading Dodgers, whose three-game winning streak ended in the first of seven games in 10 days between these Southern California rivals.<\/p>\n Sung-mun Song delivered a two-run single before Rodolfo Dur\u00e1n and Fernando Tatis Jr. added RBI hits in a four-run eighth inning of the Padres’ sixth victory in eight games.<\/p>\n Roki Sasaki (3-5) gave up three runs and a season high-tying five walks while failing to get out of the fifth inning in his first start against the Padres, who were a reported finalist for his services when he came to the majors<\/a> from Japan before last season.<\/p>\n Betts hit his 10th homer on the first pitch of the second inning. After Sasaki walked two Padres to begin his second, France put a hanging slider into the left field stands for his fourth homer in seven games.<\/p>\n Manny Machado and Tatis hit doubles off the wall against Sasaki before Jack Dreyer replaced him in the fifth and escaped a bases-loaded jam.<\/p>\n Yuki Matsui then escaped another bases-loaded jam after relieving Buehler in the sixth.<\/p>\n Los Angeles loaded the bases again in the eighth, but Adrian Morejon got Betts to ground into a double play.<\/p>\n World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-5, 2.65 ERA) takes the mound for the Dodgers on Saturday night against the Padres’ Randy V\u00e1squez (6-5, 4.17 ERA).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n