A solid effort by Blake Snell coupled by several Padres mistakes allow the Dodgers to take a 6-0 win and sole possession of first place in the NL West.

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The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers play each other six times in 10 days starting with Friday night, and Fernando Tatis Jr. is pumped up for it.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/padres as Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw Downplays Win Over Padres: 'It's a Game in August'. Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw held the stance he took before the Dodgers' series against the San Diego Padres, keeping his eyes on October.

Both were thrown out trying to steal during the ensuing at-bat by catcher Will Smith. The first might have cost the Padres a run as Luis Arraez followed with a ground-rule double. Manny Machado followed with a walk and he too was thrown out trying to take second on the back-end of a double-steal.