The Dodgers came home into a punishing night and got treated like the ballpark was built for offense. Seattle, a team that sits around league-average in power, still managed to muscle its way to a 7-6 win by leaving the yard five times and hanging on in a game that kept swinging back and forth.
For Los Angeles, the damage started with Justin Wrobleski, who had the kind of outing pitchers want to erase quickly. He gave up a career-high four home runs over six innings, and the Dodgers kept him in there for 102 pitches even as he struggled and the club had planned to monitor his workload.
Cal Raleigh opened the Mariners’ homer parade, and Julio Rodríguez, Rob Refsnyder and Dominic Canzone followed with shots off Wrobleski. Canzone wasn’t done there, adding a second homer later off Alex Vesia to stretch Seattle’s lead in the eighth.
Wrobleski’s roughest stretch came in the fourth, when all three hits he allowed in the inning came with two outs. He didn’t set the Mariners down in order until the fifth. Before Tuesday, he hadn’t allowed more than two home runs in a game since giving up three on Aug. 16, 2024, which was just his fifth career start.
The Dodgers had their own power moments, and Max Muncy delivered one of the night’s biggest. His 21st homer of the season gave Los Angeles the lead in the bottom of the fifth, and it also marked the 130th home run of his career at Dodger Stadium.
That tied Eric Karros for the most home runs in Dodger Stadium history. Muncy also moved into second place on the all-time Los Angeles franchise home run list while the club was on the road trip.
Shohei Ohtani gave the Dodgers an early jolt with his 28th leadoff home run as a Dodger, tying Davey Lopes for second-most in franchise history. Mookie Betts still owns the team record with 32 career leadoff homers.
But the Dodgers never fully cashed in on their chances. They loaded the bases with nobody out in the third and came away with just one run after Freddie Freeman grounded into a double play. In the fourth, they sent eight hitters to the plate and scored only twice, helped in part by Kyle Tucker getting a bad read on Ohtani’s soft RBI single into center field.
Los Angeles made one last push in the ninth. Dalton Rushing opened the inning with a leadoff single, Ohtani followed with an RBI double, and he moved to third on a Mariners misplay in the gap. He ended up stranded there, and the comeback stopped short.
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