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Padres third baseman Yangervis Solarte homered for the second time in three days in Saturday's loss to St. Louis. 

Solarte snapped a 57 game homer drought on Thursday. He now has four homers on the year. 

Padres first baseman Yangervis Solarte was tossed from Thursday's game against the Cardinals after striking out on a check swing in the top of the sixth inning.

Solarte disagreed on the umpire's call that he swung at a third strike. He finished the game 1 for 3 with a solo home run, his third of the season.

The Nationals will start infielder Danny Espinosa at shortstop for Thursday's game at Atlanta, reports MASNsports.com.

He will bat second and replace Ian Desmond, who was given the day off. Over his last 10 games, Espinosa is hitting .194 with two doubles and three RBI.

The Nationals are favored (-180) at Atlanta on Thursday.

Dodgers outfielder Enrique Hernandez collected three hits in Wednesday night's 4-3 win over the Diamondbacks. 

Hernandez was a home run away from the cycle as he went 3 for 5 with a single, double and triple. The triple was his second of the year and the double was his seventh. Henderson now has a slash line of .269/.310/.484. 

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa went 3 for 5 at the plate during Tuesday's 6-1 win over the Braves.

Espinosa scored two runs and also had one RBI. Prior to his three-hit game Tuesday, Espinosa was hitting .179 with one double and four RBI in his last 11 games.

Padres infielder Yangervis Solarte went 3 for 5 with a double and an RBI in Saturday's 7-2 win over the Diamondbacks. Solarte drove in the final San Diego run in the sixth inning, putting the game well out of reach for Arizona.

This makes back-to-back multi-hit games for Solarte, but he is still hitting just .242 over his last 10 games.

Nationals third baseman Yunel Escobar is not in the starting lineup for Saturday's game. 

Escobar left Friday's game after being hit by a pitch. Escobar suffered a hand injury, and while X-rays were negative, he was still suffering from swelling on Saturday. 

Escobar will be replaced at third by Danny Espinosa, who moves over from second. Dan Uggla fills in at second base for the first time since May 27. 

Enrique Hernandez will start in left field for the Dodgers on Saturday, for the first time in 26 games. 

Alex Guerrero sits after starting the last three games in left. Hernandez gets his third start of the year there and will bat seventh in the lineup. 

Padres utility man Yangervis Solarte started and capped off a six-run eighth inning, but it wasn't enough to avoid the 13-8 defeat at the hands of the Giants on Thursday. Solarte came on as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, smacking a leadoff double with his team down 9-2 at the time.

Solarte came around to score on the very next hit. Then, after the Padres put up another four runs, Solarte came up for a second time in the eighth, this time with runners on the corners and two outs. He promptly lifted a run-scoring single to draw the Padres within a run.

But they wouldn't be able to capitalize any further, and the Giants put up a four-spot in the bottom half to put the game out of reach.

Solarte had been hitless over his previous 10 at-bats coming into Thursday's contest. He is hitting .242 overall this season. 

Dodgers shortstop Enrique Hernandez gave Los Angeles an early 1-0 lead Monday against the Cubs after leading off the top of the third inning with a home run off Tsuyoshi Wada. However, the Dodgers couldn't hold the lead, losing 4-2.

Hernandez homered for the third time this season, with two homers coming in his last 13 games (eight starts). He is batting .313 (10 for 32) with a .563 slugging percentage, .924 OPS, two doubles, two home runs, three RBI, six runs, three walks and four strikeouts in that span.