Cortes was coming off an odd start in which he allowed the Giants four runs on three homers in the first inning and then yielded just three hits over the rest of an outing that lasted through the first two outs of the sixth inning without the Giants scoring again.

San Diego Padres star Manny Machado was overjoyed to see starting pitcher Yu Darvish perform so well against the Dodgers.

Hits have been hard to come by for the Dodgers these past couple of days at Petco Park. After managing only a trio of knocks in the series opener, Los Angeles' bats picked up just two hits in Saturday night's 5-1 loss,

The San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers clashed for a crucial National League West series with the series opener hosted at Petco Park on Friday.

The advice from Darvish worked, based on Machado's solo shot to make it 3-0, and notch his first home run since July 29th. He went 18 games without a home run, and slugged just .293 during that stretch with a .603 OPS.

Manny Machado scores. Jake Cronenworth out on a sacrifice fly to left center field to Alex Call. Xander Bogaerts scores. Freddy Fermin flies out to shallow center field to Teoscar Hernandez. 3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Padres 3, Dodgers 0.

The San Diego Padres are in the middle of a key race for the National League West against the Los Angeles Dodgers.