Whatever retaliatory fastballs Kennedy may – or may not – have coming his way stayed in Greinke’s back pocket in the hurlers’ first matchup since two seemingly purpose pitches boiled over into an all-out melee between the Dodgers and Kennedy’s former Diamondbacks teammates. Everth Cabrera’s ensuing fly ball to right stranded runners at first and second before Greinke (5 IP, 2 ER) walked off the mound without any drama bubbling to the surface. Of course, the early pressure work was left to Greinke, who responded to a fifth-inning wild pitch that allowed Jedd Gyorko to score the Padres’ second run with a 93 mph fastball on the lower, right side of the plate to strike out pinch-hitter Tommy Medica looking. Howell with the tying run on second base as the Padres went hitless in six at-bats with runners in scoring position. Only Greinke escaped the rest of that frame unscathed and limited the damage posed by two fifth-inning free passes before the Dodgers’ bullpen navigated fine lines over the final four innings, none tighter than in the ninth when Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen fanned pinch-hitter Nick Hundley with the bases loaded to end the game.Ĭhase Headley also bounced into inning-ending double plays in the sixth and eighth innings, the latter against left-hander J.P. Seth Smith’s solo homer one out into the fourth inning – his second in his first two games with the Padres – knocked Greinke off his pace enough to crack open the door. He has a total of 20 for his young career.ġ | Number of Padres hits in 14 at-bats with runners in scoring position to start the season. “Things happen and they happen quick and they pretty much go away unless something flares up.Ħ | The number of home runs that Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig has hit off Padres pitchers. “It was just something that happened it’s kind of like the thing with Carlos (Quentin) over there,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said, noting the fracas that followed Quentin charging Greinke – and breaking his collarbone – last April against the Padres. building got the Dodgers started on 3-2 win in front of a crowd of 35,033 at Petco Park.īeyond that, little needs to be said. Matching up against Kennedy for the first time since a beanball war sparked a knock-down, drag-out brawl last year, Greinke binged on 10 straight outs to start the game, all of them after Puig’s towering, two-run homer into the second deck of the Western Metal Supply Co. The two Dodgers enigmas let their game do their talking Tuesday afternoon. Armed with his low-90s fastball, Ian Kennedy appeared to be saying something when he delivered messages to Yasiel Puig and Zack Greinke last June, one to the nose and another high on the shoulder.

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