Willy Adames drove in three runs with a triple and a home run, Dominic Smith added a solo homer and the host San Francisco Giants continued the Los Angeles Dodgers’ misery with an 8-7 victory in the opener of a three-game series Friday night.
Jung Hoo Lee also had three RBIs and Matt Chapman scored twice for the Giants, who have won seven of nine while trimming the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West from nine games to four.
Shohei Ohtani launched a home run into the San Francisco Bay, his 32nd of the season, and Michael Conforto also homered for the Dodgers, who lost their seventh straight.
After the teams traded one-run leads in the early going on the strength of homers by Ohtani and Adames, his 12th, the Giants appeared to break the game open with a five-run fifth. Smith triggered the uprising with a leadoff homer, his second, before Adames had the big hit, a two-out, two-run triple.
Dodgers starter Dustin May (5-6) was pulled immediately prior to Adames’ hit, charged with seven runs on five hits and four walks in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out four.
Staked to an 8-2 lead, Giants All-Star Logan Webb (9-6) couldn’t get out of the sixth inning, during which the Dodgers clawed back into the game with four runs. Teoscar Hernandez had a two-run double before Conforto belted his eighth homer, a two-run shot, ending Webb’s night.
The right-hander allowed six runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings, with one walk and six strikeouts.
The Dodgers got within 8-7 in the seventh on an RBI single by Will Smith, but Tyler Rogers threw a scoreless eighth before closer Camilo Doval pitched out of a two-on, one-out jam in the ninth by getting Will Smith to ground into a game-ending double play for his 15th save.
Lee finished with three hits, while Patrick Bailey joined Adames with two in the Giants’ highest scoring home game since a 9-5 win over the Boston Red Sox on June 22.
Hyeseong Kim collected a double and two singles, Mookie Betts had two hits and scored twice, and Will Smith also had two hits for the Dodgers, whose seven-game losing streak is their longest since an 11-gamer in September of 2017.
–Field Level Media
