LOS ANGELES — The labrum in his left shoulder torn sometime after the 2014 NLDS, Hyun-Jin Ryu needed 640 days to return to the majors. Melvin Upton Jr. needed just six pitches to come up with an appropriate welcome, a leadoff home run that got the Padres started on a 6-0 win Thursday night in front of 44,759 at Dodger Stadium.
Alex Dickerson tripled and doubled in his first career multi-hit game, Derek Norris and Alexei Ramirez each had two hits and the Padres scored in four of the first five innings to support left-hander Drew Pomeranz, who was working on his own personal milestone coming into the game.