The evening got off to a wet start after a nearly two-hour ran delay in the top of the third brought an early end to ' night. Ross surrendered only two hits and a strikeout on 27 pitches through two innings before manager Pat Murphy opted to go to the bullpen as a precaution to prevent injury to the former Padres All-Star. A bullpen combination of , , and followed, combining for six innings and surrendering three earned runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts. Benoit was pegged with the loss after giving up a go-ahead RBI-triple to with two outs in the bottom of the eighth.
Padres looking for positives during losing skid
