BOSTON — Scrutiny comes with the job. Security does not.
As the front office trolls the trade waters for high-leverage relievers, the Dodgers forge on with what Manager Dave Roberts recently called lovingly “the guys we have right now.”
Those guys made a one-run lead stand up over the final four innings as the Dodgers beat the Boston Red Sox, 5-2, on Friday night.
The replacement parts – or soon-to-be-replaced parts as the trade deadline nears – combined to allow just two hits over four scoreless innings and the Dodgers have back-to-back wins for the first time since the All-Star break.
Starter Emmet Sheehan (a Boston College product) got through five ragged innings, allowing just two runs.
He walked two of the first three batters he faced then course-corrected and struck out Trevor Story and Masataka Yoshida to strand them. That took 32 pitches but he retired the side on just six in the second inning (and again in the fifth).
But he gave up three consecutive hits to start the third inning, including doubles off the Green Monster by Connor Wong and Alex Bregman. That produced two runs for the Red Sox but Sheehan course-corrected again and retired the final nine batters he faced, including striking out the side in the fourth.
The Dodgers built their lead with a run in the second inning on an Andy Pages double and Tommy Edman’s two-out bloop single and two runs in the third. Three consecutive singles (Shohei Ohtani, Will Smith and Freddie Freeman) loaded the bases. One run scored when Teoscar Hernandez drew a walk and another on Pages’ sacrifice fly.
But the Dodgers inexplicably ran their way out of any more by trying a double steal with Hernandez and Freeman. Freeman was out easily several feet short of home plate.
They stranded another runner in scoring position after Michael Conforto doubled with one out in the sixth and moved up on a wild pitch. But Edman grounded out and Hyeseong Kim struck out for the third of four times in the game.
That left the slimmest of margins for the Dodgers’ depleted relief crew to protect.
Anthony Banda was first up and retired five of the six batters he faced, handing the lead to Edgardo Henriquez in the bottom of the seventh. He got Wong to fly out to the warning track in front of the left field wall.
A bullpen’s best friend – tack-on runs – showed up just before ‘Sweet Caroline’ in the form of a two-run home run by Hernandez to the deepest part of Fenway Park’s asymmetrical outfield. It was Hernandez’s first homer in more than a month.
With the lead swelled to three, 5-2, Alex Vesia struck out two of three in the eighth. Roberts chose Ben Casparius (recovered from the calf cramp that forced him from Tuesday’s game) to handle the ninth. Casparius gave up a leadoff double to Trevor Story and brought the tying run to the plate after he hit a batter, but he got Rob Refsnyder to ground out to end the game.
More to come on this story.
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