September opened on a rough note for the Dodgers, but by the end of Week 24 they had turned the whole thing into a winning stretch. After back-to-back losses to the St. Louis Cardinals - one a blowout, the other a game they let get away - the Dodgers answered by winning their final four games of the week, capped by a sweep of the Washington Nationals.
That finish came with plenty of late drama. The Dodgers were down in the ninth inning on Thursday before rallying past St.
Louis, then erased deficits in the seventh and eighth innings on Saturday and Sunday against Washington. Three of the four wins required comeback work.
They did it all without Shohei Ohtani, who got his first extended rest since joining the Dodgers while dealing with a few injuries. He is expected back in the lineup on Monday.
Mookie Betts set the tone for the week, and then some. His biggest swing came Sunday night, when he launched a three-run homer to flip the game in the eighth inning. Over the full week, Betts posted two home runs, three doubles, 11 RBI and a 1.168 OPS.
Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández weren’t far behind. Both finished with OPS marks above 1.000, and both delivered game-winning hits during the streak.
On the mound, Blake Snell kept rolling after his return from the injured list. He threw six scoreless innings Friday to beat Washington, striking out seven in the process. Since being activated on August 11, Snell has piled up 38 strikeouts in 29 innings and allowed only three runs in five starts.
The week ended with a 4-2 record. The Dodgers scored 35 runs and allowed 36, leaving them with a .487 pythagorean win percentage for the week.
For the season, they sit at 86-57, with 705 runs scored and 553 allowed. Their year-to-date pythagorean win percentage is .609, which comes out to an 87-56 mark.
One oddity from the week stood out right away: the Dodgers’ 13-8 loss to the Cardinals on September 1 was the first game in franchise history to end with that score, win or lose. The last time the franchise saw a 13-8 final was 70 years ago, when Brooklyn beat the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the 1956 World Series.
There was also a special moment before Wednesday’s game against St. Louis, when Chris Taylor received his 2025 championship ring from his former teammates.
Taylor, who retired in May after 12 major league seasons, played 10 of them with the Dodgers. He had his two-year-old son Theo throw the ceremonial first pitch back to him.
“It’s pretty much what I identify my career as. Over 90 percent of my career was in Dodger blue.
This is the place I call home. I’m always proud to be a Dodger”
“This night means a lot that they would even do this for me. I’m extremely humbled.”
The roster moved early in the week, too. On Tuesday, the Dodgers activated Will Smith, Dalton Rushing and Justin Wrobleski from the injured list, and called up Alex Freeland from Oklahoma City. In the corresponding moves, Ben Rortvedt was designated for assignment and Alek Thomas was optioned to Triple-A.
The schedule ahead sends the Dodgers through a homestand against the Reds before a trip to South Beach for a series with the Marlins.
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