Andy Pages’ RBI double snapped a 10th-inning tie and lifted the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-7 win over the San Diego Padres on Monday.
Pages laced a 1-1 pitch from Wandy Peralta (3-1) to the left field wall, scoring Max Muncy, the automatic runner to start the inning. Tommy Edman added a run-scoring single off second base to provide a cushion.
Kirby Yates (4-2) worked around a two-out walk in the ninth to earn the win, and Tanner Scott picked up his 12th save despite yielding a one-out RBI double to Jackson Merrill in the 10th. Scott got a popup from Gavin Sheets and a flyout from Xander Bogaerts to end it.
Freddie Freeman finished with three of the Dodgers’ 12 hits, while Pages and Edman each added two. Manny Machado was the only San Diego batter with two hits, while teammate Tyler Wade hit a three-run triple.
Neither starter was involved in the decision. Los Angeles’ Dustin May lasted five innings, permitting six hits and six runs, five earned, with four walks and a strikeout. San Diego’s Nick Pivetta pitched four innings and yielded five runs, four earned, off eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts.
Each team scored twice in the first. The Dodgers got their runs on Freeman’s RBI double and Will Smith’s sacrifice fly, while the Padres countered via Machado’s run-scoring double and Merrill’s sacrifice fly.
San Diego took a 3-2 lead in the second when Jake Cronenworth scored from third on Smith’s throwing error with two outs as the catcher tried to nab Fernando Tatis Jr. stealing second.
That was followed by a wild third inning that saw each team plate three runs.
The Dodgers tied it on Teoscar Hernandez’s sacrifice fly and gained a 5-3 lead on Smith’s sixth homer, a two-run blast to left that traveled an estimated 378 feet. But the Padres erased that deficit and went up 6-5 on Wade’s bases-clearing triple, just past the sliding Hernandez in right-center.
Los Angeles equalized in the fifth on a two-out RBI double into the right field corner by Hyeseong Kim.
The Dodgers have won two games in a row while the Padres have dropped four of their past six.
–Field Level Media
