Starter Yu Darvish tossed seven innings of two-run ball but received no decision after the San Diego Padres bullpen came undone in a 10-5 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
The veteran right-hander surrendered a solo home run to James Outman in the top of the second but otherwise kept the Dodgers in check, limiting them to five hits with four strikeouts and no walks.
"I had some power in my pitches," said Darvish, who spent the final months of the 2017 season with the Dodgers.
He left the mound with the Padres up 3-2 at Petco Park before the National League West-leading Dodgers turned the game around, rallying for five runs in the eighth and scoring another three in the ninth.
Just four wins short of 200 in a career spanning Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB, the Osaka Prefecture native took his career strikeout tally to 3,159, tying for third all-time among Japanese pitchers with Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer Masaaki Koyama.
"I'm not sure I'm worthy of that company, but I'm happy," Darvish said.
In other MLB action, Shohei Ohtani extended his hitting streak to nine games, going 1-for-4 with a walk and a run scored for the Los Angeles Angels in their 9-7 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
