SAN FRANCISCO — There was a good deal of back payments in the Dodgers’ offensive breakout Saturday night.
Of all the situations that have bedeviled the Dodgers’ underperforming offense this season, loading the bases has been their kryptonite – exemplified in the second inning Saturday night when they loaded the bases with no outs and failed to score.
After Miguel Rojas popped out and Ben Rortvedt hit into a double play, the Dodgers were 24 for 109 (.220) with the bases loaded this season. Only one team (the Minnesota Twins at .188) has been worse. Rortvedt’s 3-6-1 double play was the ninth time a Dodger hit into a GIDP with the bases loaded this season, tied for the most in the majors.
But they loaded them again with no outs in the fifth inning. A two-run double by Teoscar Hernandez broke the spell and ignited a six-run inning. Another bases-loaded situation in the sixth led to three more runs and the Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 13-7.
The win was matched by the San Diego Padres, leaving the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West at 2½ but dropping the magic number to clinch the division title outright to 12. The Dodgers also hold the tiebreaker over the Padres.
If this is Clayton Kershaw’s final visit to San Francisco, he did not leave on an appropriate note.Kershaw put the Dodgers in a hole when he couldn’t put hitters away and gave up four runs in the first inning.
The Giants sent nine batters to the plate against Kershaw in the opening inning. Kershaw got two strikes on five of them. Three of them got hits and another drew a walk.
Kershaw gave the Dodgers two scoreless innings after that, but left the scene after 67 pitches in just three innings. It was his shortest start since he pitched two innings at Citi Field on May 23 and didn’t come back after a rain delay. But even with that, he has a 1.84 ERA in 200⅓ innings at Oracle Park (and its naming rights predecessors).
The Dodgers wasted their first chance to absolve Kershaw in the second inning – a sin that looked even worse when Shohei Ohtani led off the next inning with his 49th home run of the season. The 454-foot launch was the longest home run of the season for the Dodgers.
Teoscar Hernandez added a two-out RBI double that inning – foreshadowing the fifth-inning explosion.
Two walks and a single loaded the bases for Hernandez in the fifth. His two-run double gave the Dodgers the lead. Michael Conforto drove in another run with a sacrifice fly, Rortvedt atoned for his GIDP with a two-run double of his own and Mookie Betts made it a six-pack with a two-out RBI single.
Two innings later, another productive rally started painfully. Max Muncy took a 94 mph fastball off the helmet. He stayed in to run the bases but left when the Dodgers went on defense.
By then, they had scored three more runs on a wild pitch and a two-run double by Rojas.
The only question after that was whether that would be enough to keep the Dodgers’ bullpen out of high-leverage danger.
Edgardo Henriquez struck out the side in the fourth after Kershaw left the scene. But Kirby Yates gave up three runs on three doubles and a walk in the fifth.
Justin Wrobleski restored order, retiring all seven batters he faced (four on strikeouts). A precarious two-run lead when he came into the game was a more sturdy five-run advantage when he handed it over to Michael Kopech and Tanner Scott for the final two innings.
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