Padres 9, Dodgers 0

Well, that happened.

Jake Peavy got the win, he's 5-3. Hiroki Kuroda gets the loss, he's 3-6.

As per usual, Jake Peavy dominated the Dodgers. He went six innings, gave up only 3 hits, and struck out four on 72 pitches (He's now 12-1 against us in his career). And when you can't score runs, you need to rely on pitching... which the Dodgers didn't get today. Hiroki Kuroda, coming off his best start of the season, has one of his worst starts. He went only 2 and 1/3 innings, gave up two homeruns, and six runs overall (including five in the first inning).

Offensively there wasn't much to speak of. James Loney got two of the Dodgers' five hits, and the only extra base hit, a double of Peavy to start the fifth. Three outs later, however, he was left stranded on second. There were a few other scattered hits here and there. I do wonder though, why Joe Torre chose to play Luis Maza at 2nd Base instead of Andy LaRoche, who's been playing there for the last few weeks in AAA. Not to say LaRoche would have saved the Dodgers in today's game, but he might have done better than Maza. He did pinch hit in the game and gave a Jake Peavy pitch a pretty good ride to the center field warning track.

Not much to write home about. The Dodgers will now pack their bags and head to Detroit for a weekend series. The Tigers have won five of their last ten games.

The Lakers try to tie their series at 2 tonight at the Staples Center. Let's try to go 1-1 today L.A. teams...

EDIT: L.A. Teams: 0-2 on the day. The second loss was a lot harder to take...