The Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night time to safe a 5-4 win, taking their second straight sequence.
Ryan Brasier opened the sport for the Dodgers, making simply his second profession begin. In his solely inning of labor, Brasier walked one and struck out one on simply 12 pitches.
Ryan Yarbrough took over for Brasier to start out the second inning, and had bother early on, giving up a run in every of his first two innings of labor. After throwing 40 pitches in his first two innings, Yarbrough settled down and slugged his manner via the fourth and fifth innings, throwing simply 16 pitches mixed in two excellent frames whereas getting a bit of assist from a spectacular sport by Kiké Hernández to complete fifth. inning.
Yarbrough left within the sixth inning, the place he allowed a solo dwelling run to Jorge Soler and one other run to attain on Thairo Estrada's fielder's alternative. Alex Vesia got here on in aid of Yarbrough, throwing simply seven pitches to maintain the Dodgers' lead at one.
Michael Grove appeared huge within the seventh inning, hanging out two, earlier than placing the tying run in scoring place within the eighth inning. Evan Phillips was known as on to transform a four-out save, which he achieved in simply 17 pitches.
Mookie's monster begin continues
Mookie Betts continues to take pleasure in a red-hot begin to the season, smashing his main league-leading fifth dwelling run of the season on a 3-1 changeup by Logan Webb within the backside of the third inning to knot the rating at two. That dwelling run was Betts' 1,five hundredth profession hit.
Betts completed the night time going 2-5 with a house run and a stolen base, scoring twice within the win. Betts' common has dropped to precisely .500 with an OPS now at 1.770.
The underside third finds its stride
The underside of the order has lastly cleared after struggling via the primary seven video games. Gavin Lux collected his first extra-base hit of the 12 months, smashing an RBI double within the backside of the fourth inning to provide the Dodgers a 3-2 lead. Kiké Hernández instantly adopted with a two-run single to chop the result in three.
The trio of James Outman, Lux, and Hernández mixed to go 3-10 with three RBIs, with Lux particularly ending the sport 1-2 with an RBI double and two walks.
Options of the sport
Programs at dwelling: Mookie Betts (5); Jorge Soler (1)
WP: Ryan Yarbrough (1-0)
LP: Logan Webb (0-1)
SV: Evan Phillips (3)
Subsequent
Tyler Glasnow will make his third begin of the season for the Dodgers on Wednesday (7:10 p.m. PT, SportsNet LA) whereas Kyle Harrison will make his second begin of the season for the Giants.
