The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-4, after the bullpen blew a 4-0 lead in the seventh inning. The Diamondbacks walked it off against Tanner Scott in the ninth.
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The scoring started early as All-Star right fielder Teoscar Hernández sent a solo shot 380 feet away to left center, good for his 25th dinger of the year.
The D-Backs were stymied for the first six innings thanks to another strong performance by three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani on the mound. He tossed eight strikeouts across six scoreless innings (his deepest outing since Aug. 8, 2023), allowing five hits and no walks. He generated 16 whiffs and maxed out at 101.2 mph, with his fastball averaging 98.2 on the radar gun.
Hernández would continue his hot bat, knocking in two runs with a triple in the top of the sixth inning. An inning later, catcher Ben Rortvedt launched his first home run in a Dodgers uniform, creating a souvenir 393 feet away.
Things started to get dicey in the bottom half of the frame, as another gem from a starting pitcher was wasted by the bullpen.
Diamondbacks catcher James McCann launched a 105.2 mph double off of Jack Dreyer to bring in Ildemaro Vargas, and the very next batter, Adrian Del Castillo, tattooed a 108.7 mph home run off Edgardo Henriquez.
Rortvedt once again made a great play with one out and two on in the eighth inning. A double steal from Arizona got a runner to third, but fresh off his first long ball in Dodger blue, Rortvedt threw out the runner headed to second, leading to southpaw reliever Alex Vesia to get the punch out to end the inning.
After Tanner Scott entered the game in the bottom of the ninth, he hit the first batter he faced, and walked the next Diamondbacks hitter. After a sacrifice bunt advanced the runners but got the first out, and a sacrifice fly tied the game, a walk-off Gerarldo Perdomo single got Arizona the win and kept the magic number at three for LA to clinch the NL West.
The Dodgers’ NL West lead over the San Diego Padres is down to 1.5 games.
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