Late night ends with ‘bad push’ in Dodgers’ victory over Padres

At slightest nether bettors didn’t suffer — and possibly they didn’t enactment awake to acquisition their misfortune.

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 5-3 successful 16 innings successful a crippled that took 5 hours, 49 minutes, and ended astatine 12:59 a.m. Thursday. And it took astir each that clip to present a “bad push” (instead of a atrocious beat) for bettors who played the full nether 8.

The Dodgers and Padres were tied astatine 1 until the 15th inning. Los Angeles scored 2 runs successful the apical of the 15th, but Fernando Tatis Jr. answered with a two-run location tally successful the bottommost of the inning to knot the crippled astatine 3.

Now nether bettors knew they were successful trouble, and AJ Pollock ended immoderate anticipation of triumph with a two-run location tally to pb disconnected the 16th.

Tatis’ and Pollock’s homers were two-run shots due to the fact that of the regularisation enactment successful spot past play that puts a runner connected 2nd to commencement other innings. No crippled had gone beyond the 13th inning since the regularisation was enacted.

The Dodgers didn’t people again, and the Padres went softly successful the bottommost of the 16th to astatine slightest sphere the propulsion for nether bettors.

The Padres near the winning tally connected 3rd basal successful the 10th, 11th, 13th and 14th innings.

The Dodgers won arsenic statement -145 favorites to enactment 2½ games down San Francisco successful the National League West. The Padres fell a crippled down Cincinnati successful the contention for the 2nd wild-card spot.

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