Shohei Ohtani launched his 49th home run of the season, Teoscar Hernandez and Ben Rortvedt contributed two-RBI doubles in a six-run fifth inning and a classic pitching matchup of Clayton Kershaw against Logan Webb turned into a slugfest as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the San Francisco Giants 13-7 on Saturday night.
Kershaw was bombed for four runs in three innings and Webb for six runs in four-plus frames in a game that saw the Dodgers (83-65) retain their 2 1/2-game lead over the San Diego Padres atop the National League West, while the Giants (75-73) missed out on an opportunity to move past the New York Mets in the NL wild card race.
After the Giants countered a Dodgers tally in the top of the inning with four runs in the last of the first, a majority of the night’s fireworks were shot off by the visitors, who totaled 17 hits.
Ohtani’s homer to center field leading off the third was the loudest blow of the evening, a 454-foot bomb that not only was the longest by a Dodger this season but also the longest at Oracle Park in 2025.
Kershaw was pulled after needing 67 pitches to get just nine outs. He allowed five hits and four walks while striking out two.
Webb took a 4-3 lead into the fifth but never got another out, loading the bases on a pair of walks sandwiching a Freddie Freeman single.
Reliever Jose Butto allowed all three baserunners to score and eventually three more runs, with Hernandez’s double giving the Dodgers the lead and Rortvedt’s two-bagger making it 8-4. Mookie Betts’ RBI single increased the advantage to five by inning’s end.
Webb (14-10), who threw 97 pitches, served up 10 hits and two walks. He struck out five.
An RBI double by Jerar Encarnacion and two-run double by Patrick Bailey gave the Giants life at 9-7 in the last of the sixth, but the Dodgers’ bullpen dominated the rest of the game, preventing the hosts from scoring again. Edgardo Henriquez (1-1) pitched a scoreless fourth inning and was credited with his first big-league win.
Miguel Rojas had a two-RBI double as part of a three-run sixth to help Los Angeles put away the fifth win in its last six games.
Hernandez finished with three hits, three RBIs and two runs scored for the Dodgers, whose 13 runs equaled their most since putting up 18 on May 31 against the New York Yankees. Ohtani and Freeman also had three hits; Betts, Rortvedt and Andy Pages all had two apiece; and Ohtani scored three times and Betts twice.
Matt Chapman had two hits and scored twice, and Willy Adames collected two singles for the Giants, who lost for just the fifth time in their last 19 games.
–Field Level Media
