For nine innings, the Dodgers and Giants kept finding new ways to waste chances. Then the 10th arrived, and Los Angeles finally made one count.
Alex Call and Andy Pages delivered the decisive blows in extra innings, each coming through with a two-out hit as the Dodgers pushed across four runs in the 10th and beat the Giants 5-1. Pages added a double and a three-run shot, and the Dodgers’ first lead of the night turned out to be the only one they needed.
The game had been tight and tense from the start, with Jack Dreyer opening for Los Angeles and doing enough to hold the Giants in check early. The trouble came after a stolen base opened the door in the second.
Shay Whitcomb singled, swiped second, and later scored on Scott Bandura’s RBI single - his first RBI of the season in his 13th big league game. Bandura then tried to steal as well, but Dreyer was ready and picked him off.
The Dodgers faced a bullpen game on the other side, with Carson Seymour covering just one inning to start. Their first real threat came in the third, and the inning also featured Tony Vitello’s ejection.
With two runners aboard and a 2-2 count to Mookie Betts, a check swing that probably went around was ruled no swing. Vitello came out to argue a call that had already bothered him earlier, and he was tossed for the seventh time in his 2026.
Los Angeles still couldn’t cash in, though, as Betts struck out on the next pitch and Sam Hentges got Freddie Freeman to go down swinging.
The Dodgers did break through in the next inning. Kyle Tucker reached on a defensive error by the second baseman and moved to third on a Max Muncy double - his 27th of the season, a new career high. With one out and two aboard, Andy Pages tied it with a sacrifice fly.
After that, the Dodgers kept pressing without landing the knockout punch. Jonah Cox made a strong defensive play to erase a Freddie Freeman hit with a runner on, a small bit of redemption after the error that helped set up Los Angeles’ first run. Freeman’s night ended there, with Kiké Hernández taking over after five as Dave Roberts continued rotating pieces.
Muncy nearly changed the game again in the sixth, driving a ball deep enough to test the park but not deep enough to get out. It would have left the yard in 23 of 30 stadiums, but not this one.
The missed chances piled up in the seventh and eighth. Tommy Edman opened the seventh with a double, only for the inning to die on three straight groundouts. One inning later, after Muncy picked up his third hit of the day, Pages grounded into an inning-ending double play with two on and one out.
Los Angeles’ pitching kept the game within reach all night. Justin Wrobleski followed Dreyer and handled two scoreless innings in under 30 pitches. Roki Sasaki and Edwin Díaz each worked a scoreless frame and combined for three strikeouts.
Bobby Miller then had to work through real danger in the seventh, but he escaped without damage. With runners on the corners and nobody out, he struck out one batter, benefited from Marcelo Mayer staying at third after a wild pitch that Hunter Feduccia quickly recovered, struck out another, and finished the inning with a groundout.
The Giants nearly stole the lead in the eighth when Christian Koss launched what was initially ruled a home run. Replay overturned the call and showed it was foul, keeping the game tied at 1-1 through nine.
Even the 10th started as if the Dodgers might let another chance slip away. Their first two hitters were retired without moving the ghost runner to third.
Then Call broke through, and after an intentional walk, Pages delivered the biggest swing of the night. With four RBIs in the game, he moved past Ohtani and into sole possession of the Dodgers’ RBI lead this season with 85.
Alex Vesia earned the win, his third, after a scoreless 10th in which he allowed one hit and struck out one.
The Dodgers now have a little under a week off before returning Saturday at home for Game 1 of the NLDS against the winner of the Braves-Phillies Wild Card series. No starters have been announced.
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