The Padres, once up 2-1 in the National League Division Series, watched it all slip away Friday, as the Dodgers again gained the upper hand, winning 2-0 to end the Friars’ season.
They sent Yu Darvish to the mound in a Game 5 matchup the Japanese stars in the game had wanted badly — against the Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Their confidence paid off in one respect, as Darvish gave up just two runs over 6.2 innings. But Yamamoto, who went five innings, and the L.A. bullpen bested the Padre veteran, giving up just two hits and retiring 19 hitters in a row to end the game and take the best-of-five series.
Luis Arraez and Kyle Higashioka got those hits, both singles, in the third, but Fernando Tatis Jr. grounded into a double play to end the inning.
No Padre reached base again. Tatis, Jurickson Profar and Manny Machado went a combined 0 for 10 in the game.
And Tatis, blazing hot in the series, made the final out, a grounder to Enrique Hernandez at third. In the first five games of the postseason, Tatis went 10-for-18 (.556) with four homers; in his last two, both shutout losses, he had just one hit in eight at-bats.