The Dodgers needed extra innings to finish off the Pirates, but Tommy Edman made sure it ended the right way.
Los Angeles came back to Dodger Stadium riding the momentum of a sweep in Colorado and trying to keep its surge going after winning seven of its last 10. The club was also chasing its first four-game winning streak since July 21-25, and it got there in dramatic fashion with a 5-4 walk-off win over Pittsburgh.
Edman delivered the final blow in the 10th inning, lining a two-out walk-off hit after Evan Phillips had worked a scoreless frame in the top half. Phillips struck out a batter and then induced a double play with the bases loaded to keep the game alive. It was Edman’s second walk-off hit in a Dodgers uniform and the seventh of his career.
The win came after the Dodgers had already seen the game swing hard in the late innings. Kyle Hurt gave up a two-run homer that tied things up in the eighth, forcing Los Angeles to grind through extras before finally ending it at home.
The Dodgers got their offense from the middle of the order early. Shohei Ohtani walked to start the first, and Max Muncy followed by launching his 26th homer of the season to put Los Angeles up 2-1.
Then in the third, Hunter Feduccia opened with a double, Ohtani singled, and after Andy Pages was hit to load the bases, Mookie Betts came through with a two-run single up the middle. Betts has been locked in lately, hitting over .300 over his last 15 games.
Pages’ night ended before the finish. In the third inning, he was struck on the left hand/wrist area by a 100 mph fastball.
Dave Roberts and a trainer checked on him at first base, and Pages stayed in the game at first. He remained in center field for the fourth, but Kiké Hernández took over there in the fifth.
The Dodgers later said Pages left because of a left hand contusion.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave the Dodgers exactly what they needed for most of the night. The right-hander worked 6.1 innings and allowed two runs on five hits, with one walk and nine strikeouts on 107 pitches. It was his 17th straight start in which he got at least one out in the sixth inning, and the 20th time in 23 starts this season that he finished at least six innings.
Pittsburgh got to him early with two singles in the first for a 1-0 lead, then added a ground-rule double and an RBI single in the third to pull even at 2-2. Yamamoto left in the seventh after a double and a hit by pitch with one out, but Brock Stewart stranded both runners to keep the game tied.
The outing still nudged Yamamoto’s season ERA from 2.60 to 2.61 across 151.2 innings, a small bump on a night when the Dodgers still found a way to win.
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