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MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Diego 0
SAN DIEGO, (UPI) -- Chad Billingsley and two relievers teamed up to toss a four-hit shutout Sunday and the Los Angeles Dodgers blanked San Diego 1-0.
Billingsley (4-2) was brilliant, holding the Padres to four hits over 7 1/3 innings, issuing only one walk and striking out six. He allowed only one runner to reach second and induced two double plays en route to the gem.
Hong-Chih Kuo got the final two outs of the eighth. Jonathan Broxton pitched a perfect ninth to nail down the Dodgers' seventh straight win and his seventh save of the year.
Los Angeles got the only run of the game on Russell Martin's sixth-inning RBI single.
Wade LeBlanc (2-1) suffered the tough-luck loss for San Diego, holding the Dodgers to only one run on two hits over seven innings.
The win came as good news for the Dodgers, whose best hitter, Andre Ethier, had a splint applied to his broken pinkie finger Sunday. Manager Joe Torre said the team will wait a few days to determine whether Ethier -- who leads the National League in average, homers and RBI -- can play with the splint on.
SAN DIEGO, (UPI) -- Chad Billingsley and two relievers teamed up to toss a four-hit shutout Sunday and the Los Angeles Dodgers blanked San Diego 1-0.
Billingsley (4-2) was brilliant, holding the Padres to four hits over 7 1/3 innings, issuing only one walk and striking out six. He allowed only one runner to reach second and induced two double plays en route to the gem.
Hong-Chih Kuo got the final two outs of the eighth. Jonathan Broxton pitched a perfect ninth to nail down the Dodgers' seventh straight win and his seventh save of the year.
Los Angeles got the only run of the game on Russell Martin's sixth-inning RBI single.
Wade LeBlanc (2-1) suffered the tough-luck loss for San Diego, holding the Dodgers to only one run on two hits over seven innings.
The win came as good news for the Dodgers, whose best hitter, Andre Ethier, had a splint applied to his broken pinkie finger Sunday. Manager Joe Torre said the team will wait a few days to determine whether Ethier -- who leads the National League in average, homers and RBI -- can play with the splint on.
