The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday after a brutal eighth-inning collapse.<\/p>\n
Behind Clayton Kershaw’s brilliance on the mound, the Dodgers finished the seventh inning with a 4-2 lead. However, the bullpen gave up five runs in the eighth as the Guardians rallied for a 7-4 win.<\/p>\n
The game was tied 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth when Angel Martinez blasted a three-run homer to put Cleveland ahead.<\/p>\n
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Martinez had two hits, including the go-ahead home run. Nolan Jones, Jose Ramirez and Carlos Santana each had three hits in the victory.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s defeat denied Kershaw his 213th victory, despite allowing one run in a career-high five innings. On the other end, Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with a walk against Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Ohtani leads MLB with 20 home runs and had hit one in each of the Dodgers’ previous three games.<\/p>\n
The loss moved the reigning World Series champions to 34-22. Los Angeles was on its way to sweeping the series against Cleveland before Tuesday’s loss.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, the Dodgers still lead the National League West. Cleveland improved to 30-25 to stay second in the AL Central.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers now head to New York for a World Series rematch against the Yankees, who lead the AL East with a 34-20 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday after a brutal eighth-inning collapse. Behind Clayton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[6197,5,1717,1147,135,51,2565,6468,538,865,774,57,4,3663,468,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-63265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-angel-martinez","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-carlos-santana","11":"tag-clayton-kershaw","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-eighth-inning","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-jose-ramirez","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-nolan-jones","22":"tag-shohei-ohtani","23":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114590173442296158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}