Betts homers on 4-RBI night, Dodgers beat Padres 5-4

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer with two outs in the fifth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the San Diego Padres 5-4 on Saturday night.

The Dodgers remained 2 1/2 games behind NL West-leading San Francisco.

Betts drove in four of the Dodgers' five runs. He had a sacrifice fly in the third that made it 2-0.

Fernando Tatis Jr. slugged a two-run shot, his 38th, on the first pitch from Walker Buehler that tied the game at 2 in the fourth.

Buehler (14-3) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. The right-hander struck out five and walked two. He drew a key walk from Chris Paddock that set up Betts, who blasted his 20th homer on the first pitch from Craig Stammen.

Paddock (7-7) got the first two outs of the fifth and then Gavin Lux singled. He walked Buehler on four pitches before getting pulled, having thrown 30 more pitches than Buehler at that point.

Kenley Jansen retired the side in the ninth for his 32nd save.

Betts was solid defensively, too. He made a shoe-top catch of a liner from Trent Grisham with a runner on second to end the seventh.

The Padres closed to 5-4 in the eighth on back-to-back RBI singles by former Dodger Manny Machado and Tatis off Blake Treinen. Joe Kelly came in and struck out Wil Myers and Tommy Pham on a combined seven pitches to strand Tatis at third.

Paddock gave up four runs and three hits in 4 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out four and walked two.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Dodgers: INF-OF Chris Taylor had the night off. He's been dealing with an unspecified neck injury, although it's not believed to land him on the IL. He aggravated it on Friday after making a catch at the wall.

GOING HOME

Tatis returned to his natural position of shortstop as...

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