DODGERS vs. PADRES: Official Full Game Highlights (June 26) | 2026 MLB Season (Shohei Ohtani)

These two teams will see one another quite a bit over the course of the next 10 days. Padres and Dodgers playing seven times in the next 10 days. Walker Buehler's been on a roll. The four starts in the month of June. His ERA is very low, 1.71. And he's allowed just one home run here so far in the month of June. Shohei's leading off 24 leadoff homers since 2024. By far and away leads the majors as Otani rolls one into right field and has a base hit. The bat is on for the Dodgers. Shohei with a single to start things off. As Andy Pajes bounces on the short. Bogarts gets it to second for the out there. The turn throw is too late, but there's the first out of the game as Pajes bounces into a fielder's choice. Now here's Freddie Freeman. Had a good series against the Padres last month here in San Diego. And he's hit .325 over the last few weeks. Three and two. Pajes does run. Freeman swings and misses. Durant's throw. The tag from Bogarts is in time. Then the top of the first inning. Suzaki has a 3.5 ERA at home. 6.1 on the road. Has to be able to navigate this line of the first time around and really get settled in. First time facing the Padres. Chases there for strike three. And that was a darting splitter. That's the pitch for Suzaki now. That harder splitter. He's kind of gone away from the fork ball. And that is nasty. One out base runner with Jackson Merrill coming up. Ground ball right at Freeman. He throws to second base for one. Betts gives it back for the double play. And got gold sprinkled over there. Hit it to the wrong guy. The last 11 games, Mookie is 17 for his last 45 and a .378 putt. First pitch. Crack to left field. Back toward the wall. It is gone! Mookie Betts with a laser. Ambushing Buehler on the first pitch of the second inning. Just over the wall and beyond a leaping. Samad Taylor in left. Mookie Betts. Stay hot. What a sight through sore eyes the last couple of weeks have been for Mookie Betts. Back to back walks. And now three walks. In one plus. Issued by Suzaki. The Padres have two on, nobody out. And an early cameo by Mark Breyer, the Dodger pitching coach, who's going to go out to chat. So the Pads have sheets at first. Machado at second. Nobody out for Xander Bogart. Straightaway center. Pajes comes in and retrieves the sinking liner for the first out. Throw back to second base. The runners hold. There's out number one. Now the only Padre who has ever faced Rookie Suzuki, Ty Franz, who did so in the World Series last year, is a member of the Blue Jays. Watches one. Left field. Puts it 0-2 pitch over the second consecutive game. Exit stage left for Ty Franz. And the Padres lead it 3-1. Really makes Suzuki pay for those back-to-back walks. San Diego goes from one down to two up with one swing of the bat. Freeland in the nine spot had hits in all three games in Minnesota. Swung on and missed. Strike three. That's already four strikeouts for Walker Buehler. Look out. One down in the third inning as the order turns over for the first time. Back to the top and Shohei Ohtani let off the game with a base hit. Here's the payoff pitch. Ohtani takes strike three. Call. Cutter ran over the heart of the plate and throws in five strikeouts already for Walker Buehler. Back-to-back case here in the third. Two down and nobody on base. Paez sends one out toward right center and hangs for Tatis. Buehler's been strong so far in three innings. He has five strikeouts, one run allowed as the Padres have the lead. A leadoff walk. First walk issued tonight for Walker Buehler. And now he's got to face his old friend Mookie Betts. Mookie Betts on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. Mowen, 94-mile-per-hour fastball, and he took it over the left field wall. Hard grounder here right to second. Wagner has it. Hits the bag himself. But a first is in time and a double play. So Will Wagner handles the rocket ground ball and turns two just like that. Base is empty here with two away in the fourth inning. Now Muncy swings at the first pitch. Golfs one in the air towards right. Fernando a few steps to his right. He's there. He makes the catch. And all of a sudden that turned into a very quick half inning for Walker Buehler. Oh, boy. Manny Machado stay high. Now seven for his last 19 with five extra base hits. And the Padres in business here in the fourth inning. A leadoff double. After the leadoff double, a couple easy pop-ups keeping Machado at second. And the Padres will be left up to the guy who's driven in all three runs tonight, Ty France. And it hit him. Came up and in. Caught him on the left hand. Now Ty, who so often over the course of his career has been hit by a pitch, this will only be the third and not sort of the classic, you know, caught him on the elbow sort of job. Left hand, left wrist area. And that's about as bad of a spot as you can be hit. And not good news for the Padres. Getting help to his feet now by Mark Grogo. Gets a pat on the back from Craig Stammen. You can see Dalton rushing to catch it. Checked on him. Ty said to him, I'm all right. And he will head to first base. Ball four and a four-pitch walk. That's four walks issued by Sasaki. And remember, it's only the fourth inning, the second most walks he has issued in a game this year. Opportunity here, two outs. The Padres looking for some two-out magic. They've been good with that really all season long. Ground ball up the middle. It's Betts grabbing it, flipping it, and ending the inning with a good reaction to his left to retire the side. And for the second consecutive inning, the Padres have a leadoff double. That's a hanging slider that Fernando did exactly what he should have with. And how many times, you know, for the last couple of months have we not been able to say that? And so the bunt threat turns into a walk for Taylor. And the Padres have runners on first and second. Fairly short night for Sasaki. Only gets 12 outs, although it's still a winnable game for the Dodgers as they trail 3-1. Jackson Merrill coming up lefty to lefty against Dreyer. Jackson one added two against Dreyer in his career with a single. Padres trying to add to this two-run lead. Ground ball toward the middle. It's Freeland with a shovel to Betts for one. That's all the Dodgers try to get with Taylor forced out to second base. Tatis goes to third, and Merrill's aborted first. They'll concede the stolen base second and third now, and now they'll intentionally walk Manning. That'll go lefty to lefty sheets with the bases loaded one out. Big spot for him right now. Ground ball up the middle. Betts has that, goes to second one. Over to first to a double play. The Dodgers survive another Padres threat. Second straight inning, the Padres load the bases and don't score. And Shohei leading off the sixth inning against Walker Bueller who has not often gotten into the sixth inning this year. The 11-25 ERA that Bueller has in the sixth inning this year. Padres bullpen is already up, and Shohei, it's a bouncing ball. France reaches it with the backhand, and Bueller covers, reaching behind his back to get the out on Shohei. Huge first out against Shohei, being able to have the ability to fight back in the count and get him to hit the ball on the ground. Bueller unable to rally back this time. He walks Pajes on four pitches to bring up Freeman, and I wonder if the Padres might make the change now, knowing that Bueller turns into a pumpkin pretty quickly. That looks like the end of the night for Walker Bueller. A good performance against his former team. Just a run on three hits so far. Yuki Matsui faces Freddie Freeman, who represents the tying run. Still a close game. Serves this one toward the left field corner. Hit pretty well. Taylor's out near the wall, and he can't get it. It's off the wall. A late start off a first for Pajes. He advances to third base. Freeman has a double off the wall and left to the Dodgers, runners on second and third. Mookie Betts is intentionally walked, and that will load the bases, giving Matsui another lefty-lefty opportunity. Muncy one for five with two Ks and a walk facing Matsui. The tying runs in scoring position, and, Mo, how good has Max Muncy been in these spots lately? And Muncy swings, pops it up mile high on the infield. Machado calling everybody off down the line, and he lets it drop. Infield fly was called at the very last moment, and I mean very last moment, by the plate umpire Adrian Johnson. So, Manny did let it drop, but the out is recorded on the infield fly, and now two away. I'll tell you what, that ball could have rolled foul untouched, and then the out would have been negated. A big spot for Kyle Tucker. Bases loaded, two out. Another left-on-left matchup. And a fly ball to right should end the inning. Tatis and Merrill are there. It's Merrill who makes the catch, and Yuki Matsui saves the day for now. The Dodgers, like the Padres, have twice leave them loaded in stage 3-1. Padres play a lot of close games, but this is kind of their time to shine from the eighth inning on. They have the best run differential in all of baseball. Paez with a ground ball base hit up the middle and into center field. And he'll once again bring the tying run to the plate for the Dodgers. One-on-one out. Freddie Freeman doubled his last time up. Freeman slaps one the other way. Gets by a diving Machado in the left field. Back-to-back hits for L.A. in the eighth. The tying runs are on base. And so now Mookie Betts will have teammates on first and second, one out in the eighth, trailing 3-1. Betts hits it up the middle. It's right at song. He steps on second, throws to first. It's a double play. Rice skirt out of trouble again. As the Dodgers once again can execute with men on base, men in scoring position. Now the Padres have their bases loaded, one out for Sung Moon Song. Hernandez with back-to-back walks. That's nine walks issued by Dodger pitching. The Padres with another bases loaded, one out situation. How's the deal back in the fifth inning? They did not score. They left them loaded in the past. Song will bat with the sacks pulled one down. It'll be his first A.B. of the night. Ground ball up the middle. It sticks through. A base hit. Bowen scores. Bogart scores. Song sings for the Padres. It's 5-1 as France gets thrown out at third. But behind the play, Song into second base, and the Padres have finally had it on. It's 5-1. Here is the insurance. This ball club has been knocking on the door to get. And once again, walks burn the Dodgers. This one is in the air to left field. Long run. Edmond in it towards the line. Not going to get there. The race home. Duran to second. The throw gets away. An RBI double. It's 6-1. The Padres have broken the game open here in the eighth. So after they failed to add on inning after inning after inning, Sun Moon Song, a two-run single. Rodolfo Duran, an RBI double. And now Fernando Tatis Jr. coming to the plate. First pitch swinging. Line drive. Over the head of Freeland into center and a base hit. Here comes another. It's 7-1. Now you're seeing the offensive capabilities of the San Diego Padres being able to turn the lineup over. And now they've got this home crowd on their feet. It's 7-1. And with that, Mason Miller puts the hoodie back on and thinks about the next one. Peralta looks to put the finishing touches here on this 7-1 Padre lead. So Rojas at first base, one out. Tommy Edmond will hit right-handed against Wandi Peralta. Ground ball to short. We've seen a bunch of double plays tonight. And that one ends the ball game. The San Diego Padres beat L.A. They take game one of this three-game weekend series against their rival. 7-1 the final at Petco Park.