LA Dodgers 8, Pittsburgh 7
When: 12:35 PM ET, Thursday, June 7, 2018
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Roberto Ortiz, 1B -
Mike Estabrook, 2B -
Jim Reynolds, 3B -
Bruce Dreckman
Attendance:
19713
By Field Level Media
Cody Bellinger homered for the third straight game and Joc Pederson belted two out Thursday as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7.
Pederson's second homer produced an 8-3 lead, and the Dodgers held on for their fifth win in six games.
Elias Diaz hit a three-run homer and had four RBIs for the Pirates, who are 5-14 in their past 19.
The Dodgers were forced to go with a bullpen day when Dennis Santana, who was scheduled to make his first major league start, was scratched because of right lat soreness during his warmup.
Pedro Baez (3-3), the third of nine Los Angeles pitchers, allowed one run and two hits in two innings. Kenley Jansen gave up a homer but got a five-out save, his 15th.
Pittsburgh starter Jameson Taillon (3-5) allowed three runs and eight hits in five innings, with seven strikeouts and one walk.
Pederson led off the game with his fifth homer, to right.
Pittsburgh tied it 1-1 in the third when Jordy Mercer led off with a single and later scored on Gregory Polanco's sacrifice fly.
Bellinger hit a double off the wall in right-center with one out in the fourth and later scored on Breyvic Valera's bunt single, putting the Dodgers ahead for good, 2-1.
They made it 3-1 in the fifth when Matt Kemp's fielder's choice brought home Pederson, who led off with a double, and upped it to 4-1 in the sixth on pinch hitter Yasiel Puig's RBI double.
The Pirates closed to within 4-3 in the bottom of the sixth on Josh Bell's RBI double and Diaz's sacrifice fly.
After Kemp got aboard with a one-out single in the seventh, Bellinger hit his 11th homer, to left, to make it 6-3.
Pederson struck again in the eighth, a two-run homer to center for an 8-3 Dodgers lead.
Diaz's homer inside the foul pole in left made it 8-6 in the eighth.
Pinch hitter Francisco Cervelli's ninth-inning homer to left made it 8-7, but Jansen got the final two outs from there to nail down the save.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
LA Dodgers
|
13 |
3 |
26 |
.342 |
16 |
10 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
Pittsburgh
|
9 |
2 |
16 |
.265 |
9 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
0 |