LOS ANGELES -- It seemed as if Sunday's finale, the seventh game in 10 days between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers, would finally produce the first dud of this exhilarating matchup. The Dodgers led by six runs and the Padres were down to their last nine outs, entering the final three innings of a grueling stretch that consisted of 17 games in 17 days.
But of course they chipped away at the deficit.
Of course they made it interesting in the ninth.
And of course they sent it into extra innings.