It was the second time in two days that the Padres’ starting pitcher allowed just one hit to one of the major leagues’ top offenses. Cortes and Yu Darvish became the first opposing starting pitchers to hold the Dodgers to one or zero hits over at least six innings in successive games since at least 1958.

Nestor Cortes had a chance to redeem himself this weekend, facing Freddie Freeman for the first time since the infamous World Series grand slam.

Nestor Cortes had one of the lowest moments of his baseball life last October when he gave up the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history to Freddie Freeman.