SAN FRANCISCO – Tyler Glasnow and Robbie Ray spent the first innings of Sunday’s game searching for the strike zone like two men in a dark room, groping for the light switch.
Ray never saw the light – and barely saw the fifth inning. The Dodgers took advantage of his wildness and chased him from the game with a four-run inning that sent them on the way to a 10-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
Held to one run on four hits in 10 innings Friday night, the Dodgers came to life with 23 runs on 35 hits in the next two games. Teoscar Hernandez had four of those hits. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Michael Conforto each had three-hit games. Conforto (who entered as a pinch-hitter during that four-run fifth inning) went 3 for 4 to raise his average to an even .200. It is the first time he ended a day with a batting average of .200 or higher since April 19.
By taking two out of three in San Francisco, the Dodgers put a dent in the Giants’ unexpected wild-card contention and maintained their 2½-game lead in the division over the San Diego Padres. They also closed to within a still-daunting 4½ games of the Philadelphia Phillies for the second seed in the National League playoffs. The Phillies come to LA for a three-game series beginning Monday.
Glasnow and Ray combined to throw 110 pitches in the first three innings, only 54 strikes. They walked seven, hit one batter and each threw a wild pitch.
But Glasnow allowed just one hit, minimizing the damage against him to one run. He found his way in the middle innings, retiring 11 consecutive Giants before giving up his second hit of the day, a one-out single in the seventh inning.
Offensively, the Dodgers’ patience was rewarded. They loaded the bases twice in the second inning when Ray walked three batters but scored just once on a sacrifice fly by Kike’ Hernandez. In the third, Betts worked a bloop single into a run when Teoscar Hernandez followed with a hit and Betts advanced on a fly ball and a ground out.
Their reward came in the fifth inning when Ray walked Betts to start the inning, then gave up a single to Teoscar Hernandez and an RBI double to Freeman.
That ended Ray’s day – but not the walks. Giants reliever Joel Peguero walked Tommy Edman to load the bases for Conforto. With the infield in, Conforto’s broken-bat grounder found its way into right field for a two-run single. Peguero balked in another run.
Since coming up empty in a bases-loaded, no-outs situation in the second inning of Saturday’s game, the Dodgers have gone 4 for 6 with 9 RBIs in bases-loaded situations.
They just kept scoring, adding two more runs in the sixth inning on a two-out, two-run single by Miguel Rojas, another in the eighth on Conforto’s third single and third RBI and one more in the ninth on Tommy Edman’s RBI single.
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