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SAN DIEGO - Adrian Gonzalez's solo homer started a three-run
rally in the eighth inning that carried the San Diego Padres to a 4-3 win over
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Closer Heath Bell got out of a jam in the ninth and
the Padres salvaged a split of an opening, four-game series against the defending
NL West champion Dodgers.
The Dodgers had been working on a combined
three-hitter before Gonzalez's one-out, opposite-field homer Will Ohman off the
facade of the second deck in left-center pulled San Diego to 3-2. It was Gonzalez's
first.
