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Dodgers lose twin bill to Padres; Darvish continues to struggle

SAN DIEGO - Yu Darvish stared at his cleats as he finished the worst inning of his brief, confounding career as a Los Angeles Dodger. His team would play 18 innings of baseball and lose twice in Saturday's doubleheader, but no inning mattered more than the third of the nightcap. After surrendering four runs during a stretch when six consecutive Padres reached base, Darvish trudged into his dugout midway through a 7-2 loss.

A month ago, when the Dodgers acquired Darvish from Texas minutes before the July 31 trade deadline, the

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