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This time, an overturned call began the wildness in the ninth inning of what became a 5-4 victory by the Dodgers over the Padres.
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The Dodgers ultimately scored the winning run off Mason Miller because of his off-target pickoff throw to first base.
There was a runner on base because a strikeout was turned into a walk by an ABS challenge from Max Muncy.
Muncy was replaced at first base by pinch-runner Alex Call, and it appeared Call would become the second out of the inning when he took over for second base only to have Miller turn and throw toward first.
Call was headed back to the bag when Miller’s hard throw glanced off first baseman Ty France’s glove and rolled to the side wall as Call ran to third.
Andy Pages then hit the ninth pitch of his at-bat in the air to Fernando Tatis Jr. in right field. Tatis’ throw was cut off by Sung-Mun Song, who turned and fired to home, where Call slid in just before catcher Freddy Fermin’s tag.
Will Klein retired the Padres in order in the ninth to end the second straight thriller played by the two teams atop the National League West.
This came a night after Miller’s ninth inning was turned around by a successful ABS challenge by catcher Rodolfo Durán in the Padres’ 1-0 victory.
Monday, Miguel Andujar’s first-inning homer provided all the scoring.
Two-run homers by Freddy Freeman in the top of the first inning, Manny Machado in the bottom of the first and Andujar in the third produced Tuesday’s first six runs and had the Padres up 4-2 on Tuesday.
With a run on a double off third base that would have been an out and two groundball outs in the fifth and Freeman’s second home run of the game in the sixth, the Dodgers tied it 4-4.
Shohei Ohtani led off the game by sending a Griffin Canning slider on the outer edge the other way to left field for a double. And with one out, Canning sent a fastball to the middle of the strike zone that Freeman sent the other way and just over the left field wall.
The Padres were not down long, because they continued to do something they had been unable to do much the first seven weeks of the season.
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After scoring in the first inning just eight times in their first 45 games, they did so for a third straight day when Emmet Sheehan walked Gavin Sheets and then gifted Machado a fastball down the middle that the Padres’ third baseman hit 404 feet to left field.
It was a fastball left up near the heart of the zone that Andujar blasted for his second home run in two days to give the Padres a 4-2 lead.
Canning yielded a lead-off single in the second and walked the first batter in the third but retired the next three batters both times. He ran an out streak to six with a 1-2-3 fourth inning before bad luck hit hard.
At the start of the fifth, Teoscar Hernandez pulled a ground ball down the third base line that Machado was waiting for, but the ball bounced off the bag and over his head as Hernandez ran to second base with a double. Groundouts by Hyeseong Kim and Ohtani scored Hernandez.
Jeremiah Estrada relieved Canning at the start of the second and had his fifth pitch, a splitter low and inside a smidge of the plate, launched 399 feet.
Estrada got the next three outs, as a battle between two of the league’s deepest bullpens was on.
Sheehan was replaced by Edgardo Henriquez to start the fifth, and he got the next four outs before Alex Vesia replaced him to get the final two outs of the sixth.
After Bradgley Rodriguez retired the three batters he faced in the top of the seventh, the Padres got something going in the bottom of the inning against Blake Treinen when Tatis lined a single into center field and Andujar walked.
Left-hander Tanner Scott was called in to replace Treinen, and Stammen replaced the left-handed-hitting Sheets with Ramón Laureano, who sent a line drive to left field that Hernandez ran down in front of the wall to end the inning.
Adrian Morejón turned in one of the biggest innings of the season in the eighth.
After surrendering a leadoff double to Ohtani and having him go to third base on a flyball out by Betts, Morejón struck out Freeman and got cleanup hitter Kyle Tucker to ground out.
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This story was originally published May 19, 2026 at 10:56 PM.