SAN DIEGO – It shouldn’t have surprised that the San Diego Padres were involved in another one run game.

But in the first meeting of the 2025 season, it was the Los Angeles Dodgers who knocked a pair of extra innings runs across to secure the 8-7 win in 10 innings on Monday night at Petco Park.

Andy Pages led off the 10th with an RBI double, then came home on a single that bounced off second base up the middle by Tommy Edman against reliever Wandy Peralta. Jackson Merrill answered with a one-out double off Tanner Scott for his second RBI of the night, but Scott got the final two outs.

“They punched, we punched, it’s a typical game we play against them,” said manager Mike Shildt. “They executed and got the one more hit in the tenth, that’s what got it.”

After the longest wait for the season series opener between the Padres (37-28) and Dodgers (40-27) since 2000, it did not disappoint with four lead changes in the first three innings before settling into a battle of the bullpens.

Tyler Wade’s third inning, bases-clearing triple with two outs gave San Diego a 6-5 lead that they held until Hyeseong Kim knocked a two-out double to score Max Muncy in the fifth inning.

The Padres did not have a hit after Gavin Sheets’ one-out knock in the fifth inning until the 10th. Los Angeles had a 12-8 in hits, and also went 5-for-13 with runners in scoring position while San Diego finished 3-for-14.

Nick Pivetta battled through all four innings of work, allowing eight hits and five runs (four earned) to go with three strikeouts and two walks. It was just the third time this season where he did not make it through the fifth inning, and snapped a four-start stretch of throwing six innings.

“They got on me early, the two runs and then obviously when they got two runs off you early you’ve got to be perfect after that and I made a mistake to Will Smith, and that’s kind of the story of the night,” Pivetta said. “I could’ve gotten ahead a little bit better earlier on and made some better pitches.”

Pivetta faced seven Dodgers batters in the first inning and eight in the third, finishing with 93 pitches before giving way to Yuki Matsui in the fifth inning.

“They put some good at bats on him…but Pivetta battled and got through the finish the fourth with the lead,” Shildt said.

The Dodgers got an early break as part of their two-run first, as after Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman hit doubles to bring the first run home, Teoscar Hernández reached on a Manny Machado throwing error. Will Smith hit a sacrifice fly to score Freeman unearned.

Machado made up for it as the Padres immediately responded with a pair of their own in the first, set up by back-to-back singles by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Luis Arraez. Machado laced a double down the first base line for his ninth RBI in June, then Merrill followed up with a sacrifice fly to tie the game.

San Diego would get their unearned run against LA starter Dustin May as the lone run in the second. Jake Cronenworth led off with a walk, and made his way to third on back to back productive outs.

Then, after Tatis Jr. worked a walk, the right fielder took off and stole second as catcher Smith’s throw deflected into center and allowed Cronenworth to give the Brown and Gold their first lead at 3-2.

Smith made up for the error during his next plate appearance in the Dodgers’ three-run third, following up a Hernández sacrifice fly by hitting his sixth home run of the season.

May made it through the fifth inning, finishing with six hits allowed and six runs (five earned). The Padres worked him for a season-high four walks as well as matched May’s lowest strikeout performance of the season, with only one retired by a K.

The Padres bullpen was extended again, relying on innings from Matsui, Sean Reynolds, 1 1/3 innings from Jeremiah Estrada, 2/3 inning from Adrian Morejon and a 10-pitch inning from Robert Suarez.

“There was consideration, it was really tempting (to extend Suarez), the first couple guys we prefer to have righties on…but that’s the back end of three out of four,” Shildt said. “(Suarez) has carried the mail for us, and a lot of the guys have carried the mail.

“We’re piecing it together and competing at the same time, but we’re going to need some depth out of some starters.”

Kirby Yates earned his fourth win of the season for Los Angeles, working around a two-out walk in the scoreless ninth inning. Scott earned his 12th save, as the Dodgers also got two scoreless innings from Anthony Banda and one from Alex Vesia. Peralta took his first loss of the season.

San Diego is scheduled to send Dylan Cease (1-5, 4.72 ERA) to the hill, against what is anticipated to be a bullpen day for the Dodgers for the 6:40 p.m. first pitch for the second game of the series on Tuesday at Petco Park.

This story was updated at 10:43 p.m.