SAN DIEGO (Interstat) — Alex Call slid home with the tiebreaking run on Andy Pages’ sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers held on for a 5-4 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.

The Dodgers manufactured the unearned run against Padres closer Mason Miller, who had held opponents scoreless in 20 of his first 21 appearances this season. Max Muncy successfully challenged a called third strike to draw a one-out walk in the ninth. Call entered as a pinch-runner for Muncy. Miller attempted to pick Call off first base, but his throw sailed past first baseman Ty France, allowing Call to advance to third. Pages then lifted a fly ball to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr., deep enough for Call to score without a throw.

The game was a back-and-forth affair from the start. Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani led off the first with a double and scored on Freddie Freeman’s home run to left. Freeman’s second homer of the game, a solo shot in the sixth, gave the Dodgers a 4-4 tie after the Padres had taken the lead. Freeman finished two for four with two home runs and three RBIs.

Los Angeles struck first with two runs in the top of the first. Ohtani doubled and moved to third on a groundout before Freeman homered. The Padres answered immediately in the bottom half. Manny Machado launched a two-run homer to center, scoring Gavin Sheets, who had drawn a walk. After a quiet second inning for both sides, the Padres took the lead in the third. Tatis Jr. reached on a controversial single after a replay review and scored on Miguel Andujar’s two-run homer to left, making it 4-2.

The Dodgers chipped away in the fifth. Teoscar Hernández doubled to left and advanced to third on a groundout. Ohtani then grounded out to second, driving in Hernández to cut the deficit to 4-3. In the sixth, Freeman tied the game with his second homer, a solo shot to right-center off Padres starter — who was replaced after that inning.

Both bullpens locked in after that. Dodgers relievers Alex Vesia, Edgardo Henriquez, Tanner Scott and Will Klein combined for four and one-third scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and striking out four. Scott earned the victory, improving to 1-1 with one and one-third innings of hitless relief, striking out two. Klein picked up his first save with a perfect ninth, striking out one.

The Padres had chances to add more after their two-run third. They loaded the bases in the fourth on a single and a ground-rule double but left them stranded. In the seventh, Tatis Jr. singled and Andujar was intentionally walked, but Ramón Laureano flied out to end the threat. The Dodgers’ defense made key plays, including a pair of groundouts by Mookie Betts at shortstop and a strong inning from Henriquez, who stranded a runner in the eighth.

Ohtani had two hits, including his second double, and an RBI. Muncy walked twice and had a single in three at-bats. Hernández doubled and scored once. The Dodgers totaled six hits, matching the Padres’ output. San Diego got two hits from Tatis Jr. and the home runs from Machado and Andujar.

The win improved the Dodgers’ record to 30-19, while the Padres fell to 29-19. The teams had split the first two games of this three-game series, with San Diego winning 1-0 on Monday. The Dodgers had won six of their previous eight games entering Tuesday, including three straight over the Angels and two of three against the Giants. The Padres had won three of their previous four, including a series win at Seattle.

Attendance at PETCO Park was 39,788. The game lasted 2 hours, 45 minutes.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Los Angeles Dodgers 7, San Diego Padres 6. Interstat’s ELO system had projected the Dodgers with a 54.90 percent probability to win. The Dodgers were installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total of 9 runs went under the over-under line of 8.5.