SAN DIEGO — Petco Park played like a bandbox with the wind blowing out Saturday night, and Adrian Gonzalez and the Los Angeles Dodgers capitalized.
Gonzalez hit his sixth home run against San Diego this year, a three-run shot, and Andre Ethier, Howie Kendrick and Juan Uribe each had a two-run drive to give the Dodgers an 11-8 victory over the Padres.
"The universe was a little off track there for the first inning and a half," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "And then it kind of got whacked out again."
The Dodgers got a scare when starter Brandon McCarthy came out with tightness in his right elbow after allowing a three-run homer to Justin Upton in the sixth.