Bryce Harper goes yard in loss on Saturday

Trammell’s home run was his seventh of the year. He pummeled a high fastball from Michael King over the wall in right-center in the second inning. Trammell was pinch hit for in the seventh inning when the Padres brought in left-handed reliever Adrian Morejon with two men on and two outs. He’s hitting .236 with a .742 OPS and 20 RBI this year.

It looked like Tucker was going to have the go-ahead homer, as it gave the Didodgers a 1-0 lead late in the contest. Edwin Diaz didn’t allow that to happen with another blown save, but it does come in a victory, and it does give Tucker 11 homers on the season.

After Geraldo Perdomo put the tying run at third with a triple of his own, Carroll hit his 13th three-bagger of the year to to score Perdomo and tie the game at 1-1. He also drew a walk to improve his slash to a still-disappointing .242.337/.469. You can certainly do worse, but Carroll’s talent creates higher expectations than that type of line, even with the triples.

Ohtani hit a grounder that Tim Tawa couldn’t corral with two outs to give the Dodgers the lead, and ultimately the victory. The 32-year-old has driven in 71 runs on the season, and this one helps the Dodgers snap a seven-game losing streak.

After Edwin Díaz was unable to convert the save in the ninth — again — Dreyer came on and was able to escape a first-and-third jam to procure his first save of 2026. While he hasn’t been used to close out games and likely won’t be asked to do so many more times if at all, he’s done a nice job as seen in his 2.86 ERA on the season.

Oh dear. Díaz was handed a one-run lead, and it almost immediately went away with the right-hander giving up back-to-back triples to give him yet another blown save. Those looking for the glass to be half full can point to the 32-year-old getting out of the inning without giving up the winning run, but those who want that glass to be closer to empty are within their rights. Yes it’s been somewhat due to injuries, but it’s hard to call what Díaz has done in 2026 anything but a disaster. A 10.80 ERA in August is pretty hard to argue against.

It’s another brilliant outing for Pfaadt, but it’s one that comes without a win because the offense couldn’t solve Yoshinobu Yamamoto and didn’t get on the board until the ninth inning. The 27-year-old has not allowed an earned run in three consecutive starts, and no more than two in any outing since returning the rotation at the end of June. His next start is against Atlanta on the road scheduled for Friday, but the way he’s looked suggests he should be in fantasy lineups against everyone; even if regression has to come.

It was not an efficient start for Yamamoto, as he needed 107 pitches to get his 17 outs, and he walked three. It was still an effective one — as it usually is for the 27-year-old — that saw him allow just three hits and strike out six while lowering his ERA to 2.65. Yamamoto will look to keep this going — and work a smidgen deeper into the game — next weekend against the Brewers.

Merrill’s home run was his 17th of the year. He hit a solo shot off Peter Lambert in the third inning. In the first inning, Merrill had an RBI force out. Merrill finished the month of June with a .213 average and eight home runs. Since July 1, he’s 41-for-132 (.310) with nine home runs, 27 RBI, 24 runs scored and four stolen bases in 34 games.

Lambert gave up five hits, walked three and struck out three. He fell to 8-6 with the loss. The Padres scored individual runs against Lambert in the first, third and fourth innings. He allowed an RBI force out to Jackson Merrill in the first inning before giving up a solo home run to Merrill in the third inning. In the fourth inning, a rare error by the typically sure-handed shortstop Jeremy Pena led to an unearned run. Lambert has a 3.09 ERA. He’s lined up to face the Mariners at home next weekend.