Miguel Andujar homered Monday night for the game’s only run and Michael King won a classic pitcher’s duel with Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0.

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King (4-2) allowed just four hits and two walks over a season-high seven innings, fanning a season-best nine. Jason Adam maneuvered around a two-on, two-out jam in the eighth and Mason Miller closed it out in the ninth for his 15th save in as many chances.

Yamamoto (3-4) was a tough-luck loser, permitting only three hits and two walks in seven innings while striking out eight. But his only real mistake wound up in the left field seats with one out in the bottom of the first.

Pouncing on a hanging 2-2 splitter, Andujar launched it an estimated 376 feet for his fourth homer of the year. After that, San Diego pushed only one runner into scoring position for the game’s remainder. Jackson Merrill swiped second in the seventh but was stranded.

But King and the high-leverage arms in the bullpen made it stick. King whiffed five in his first pass through the order and faced the minimum through five innings. The two Dodger batters who reached — Mookie Betts on a single in the first and Shohei Ohtani via a leadoff walk in the fourth — were cut down stealing by rookie catcher Rodolfo Duran..

Kim walked and Ohtani singled with two outs in the eighth before Adam induced an inning-ending fielder’s choice grounder from Betts. In the ninth, Freddie Freeman and Tucker drew walks against Miller.

But Will Smith flied out, Muncy looked at a third strike and Andy Pages bounced into a fielder’s choice to end it.

Angels, held hitless for eight innings, stun A’s, J.T. Ginn

Zach Neto walloped a two-run homer with no outs in the ninth inning giving the Los Angeles Angels a dramatic 2-1 victory over the Athletics on Monday night at Anaheim, Calif.

The Angels didn’t record a hit through eight innings against J.T. Ginn before breaking through in the ninth to end their six-game losing streak.

Adam Frazier led off the ninth with a single to center on an 0-2 slider, ending Ginn’s no-hit ball, and pinch runner Jose Siri replaced him. Neto strode up and sent a 1-1 sinker over the fence in center.

Ginn (2-2) struck out a career-high 10, walked one and also hit a batter. The right-hander threw 105 pitches — 99 through eight innings before returning for the ninth.

Lawrence Butler’s pinch-hit single in the top of the ninth plated the Athletics’ lone run.

Chase Silseth (1-0) induced Nick Kurtz to hit into a double play with the bases loaded in the ninth to end the inning and set up the decisive rally. That was the only batter Silseth faced.

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Ginn retired the Angels’ first 13 batters of the game until he walked Yoan Moncada with one out in the fifth. He rebounded by striking out Jo Adell and getting Josh Lowe on a comebacker to end the inning.

Ginn hit Neto on the left thigh with a pitch with two outs in the sixth before getting Mike Trout on a grounder to third to end the inning.

In the seventh, Ginn struck out Nolan Schanuel, Jorge Soler and Moncada, and he got through the eighth by retiring Adell and Lowe on liners to center before Logan O’Hoppe popped out to shortstop to end the inning.

Ginn was trying to achieve the Athletics’ first no-hitter since Mike Fiers’ effort on May 7, 2019 against the Cincinnati Reds.

Angels starter Walbert Urena pitched six shutout innings. He gave up four hits and two walks and struck out four.

Rodriguez, Mariners end skid, take
down White Sox

Colt Emerson homered for his first major league hit, Julio Rodriguez also went deep and Bryan Woo pitched six scoreless innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Chicago White Sox 6-1 Monday night to snap a three-game skid.

Tristan Peters homered for a second consecutive game for the White Sox, who had a two-game winning streak come to an end and lost for just the second time in their past nine games.

Emerson, the Mariners’ top prospect who was called up from Triple-A Tacoma (Wash.) on Sunday when Brendan Donovan went on the 10-day injured list (strained left groin), lined a three-run shot just over the wall in the right-field corner with two outs in the eighth to help Seattle pull away.

Woo (4-2), a right-hander, allowed three hits, walked two and struck out eight. He retired the final 13 batters he faced.

Rodriguez homered to right-center field with one out in the bottom of the first inning off White Sox rookie left-hander Noah Schultz (2-3), who was facing the Mariners for the first time.

Seattle extended its lead to 2-0 in the third on a controversial obstruction call.

Jhonny Pereda, the No. 9 hitter in the Mariners’ lineup, led off the inning and was hit by a pitch. With two outs, Randy Arozarena doubled to left, with Pereda running into the back of White Sox second baseman Sam Antonacci shortly after rounding second base. Pereda continued home and was thrown out easily, but the umpires huddled after the play and ruled Pereda was to be awarded the run. White Sox manager Will Venable argued the call and was ejected by home-plate umpire Tripp Gibson.

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