Walker Buehler beats his former team, Ty France homers in Padres' 7-1 victory over Dodgers

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Walker Buehler pitched one-run ball into the sixth inning for a victory over his former team, Ty France hit an early three-run homer and the San Diego Padres beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on Friday night for their fourth consecutive win.

Buehler (5-3) yielded three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in his second career start against the Dodgers, his employers for his first decade in pro baseball. He made two All-Star teams and won two championship rings in Dodger Blue, recording the last out of the 2024 World Series in his final appearance.

Mookie Betts homered for the major league-leading Dodgers, whose three-game winning streak ended in the first of seven games in 10 days between these Southern California rivals.

Sung-mun Song delivered a two-run single before Rodolfo Durán and Fernando Tatis Jr. added RBI hits in a four-run eighth inning of the Padres' sixth victory in eight games.

Roki Sasaki (3-5) gave up three runs and a season high-tying five walks while failing to get out of the fifth inning in his first start against the Padres, who were a reported finalist for his services when he came to the majors from Japan before last season.

Betts hit his 10th homer on the first pitch of the second inning. After Sasaki walked two Padres to begin his second, France put a hanging slider into the left field stands for his fourth homer in seven games.

Manny Machado and Tatis hit doubles off the wall against Sasaki before Jack Dreyer replaced him in the fifth and escaped a bases-loaded jam.

Yuki Matsui then escaped another bases-loaded jam after relieving Buehler in the sixth.

Los Angeles loaded the bases again in the eighth, but Adrian Morejon got Betts to ground into a double play.

World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-5, 2.65 ERA) takes the mound for the Dodgers on Saturday night against the Padres' Randy Vásquez (6-5, 4.17 ERA).

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts celebrates as he runs the bases after hitting a solo home run against the San Diego Padres in the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 26, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Roki Sasaki delivers a pitch against the San Diego Padres in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, June 26, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

San Diego Padres' Ty France, right, celebrates with Gavin Sheets after hitting a three-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 26, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani runs to first after hitting a ground ball to San Diego Padres' Ty France for an out in the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, June 26, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

San Diego Padres' Yuki Matsui reacts after the final out of the sixth inning inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday, June 26, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s military government severed diplomatic ties with France, its former colonial ruler that had been a key security partner for the West African nation before relations fractured.

The junta said in a statement Friday it broke off relations with France effective immediately, accusing it of "blatant neo-colonial ambitions and active support for subversive networks and terrorists,” without providing evidence.

France’s Foreign Minsitry spokesman Pascal Confavreux said in a statement that the country regrets the “hostile and unfounded decision, which illustrates the worrying drift of the Burkinabè authorities.”

“Necessary reciprocal measures are currently under review,” he said. Confavreux added that France is monitoring the safety of French government personnel and citizens in Burkina Faso and urged them to exercise heightened vigilance.

The West African country of 23 million people has been battered by yearslong violence perpetrated by extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, as well as government forces often accused of extrajudicial killings. Its wider Sahel region is the world’s deadliest region for extremism.

It was unclear what would follow the end of diplomatic relations or how the French embassy in Burkina Faso would be affected.

“The conditions essential for fostering relations based on mutual respect, reciprocal trust, and respect for the principle of non-interference in internal affairs and national sovereignty are no longer met,” Burkina Faso’s Communications Minister Pingdwende Gilbert Ouedraogo said in a statement.

The two sides suffered broken relations for years.

Burkina Faso's military government has in the past targeted foreign diplomats, including the French, whom it has often accused of working against its interests. In 2023, the junta asked France to recall its ambassador and declared the United Nations’ resident and humanitarian coordinator in the country persona non grata, while in 2024, it expelled three French diplomats for alleged subversive activities.

France was Burkina Faso's major security partner until a 2022 coup. The junta then sacked hundreds of French forces sent to fight extremist groups.

The violence has worsened under the military government that had promised to curb it, analysts say.

In the two years following the coup, Burkina Faso forces allegedly killed twice as many civilians as extremists, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Watch, which blamed government forces for at least 1,200 of the 1,837 civilians killed in the country between January 2023 and August 2025.

FILE - In this photo provided by RIA Novosti, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore arrives at the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025. (Stanislav Krasilnikov/RIA Novosti via AP, File)