Andy Pages hit two homers and drove in 4 runs, Emmet Sheehan tied his profession excessive with 10 strikeouts and the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 7-0 victory over the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Monday within the opener of a three-game sequence.
Sheehan (5-2) didn’t enable a run over a career-best seven innings. He permitted two hits and one stroll. Jack Dreyer and Anthony Banda every threw an inning to finish a three-hit shutout.
Mookie Betts added a house run for the Dodgers, who returned from a 3-4 highway journey to Colorado and San Diego and used the victory to maneuver again into sole possession of first place within the Nationwide League West.
Hunter Greene (5-4) gave up 5 runs (three earned) over five-plus innings for the Reds, who’re 3-4 on a nine-game three-city highway journey that ends Wednesday. The Los Angeles native issued two walks and struck out three.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead within the third inning when Pages hit a house run off Greene into the house bullpen in left subject.
Pages adopted a Michael Conforto double within the fifth inning together with his second dwelling run of the sport and twenty third of the season, additionally to left.
Los Angeles padded its lead within the sixth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Pages hit what seemed to be an inning-ending grounder to shortstop. Nevertheless, the ball went between the legs of the Reds’ Elly De La Cruz to attain two runs for a 5-0 lead.
Sheehan’s tenth strikeout got here in opposition to Spencer Steer for the second out of the seventh inning. Betts then made a diving cease within the gap at shortstop, and his throw to first accomplished seven innings for the right-hander.
Betts celebrated with a solo dwelling run within the backside of the seventh, his 14th of the season and third in 16 video games. Pages drove in one other run within the eighth on a sacrifice fly.
The Reds’ Gavin Lux, who helped the Dodgers win the World Sequence final 12 months and performed 5 seasons in Los Angeles, obtained his championship ring in a pregame ceremony. Lux doubled for one among Cincinnati’s three hits.
–Subject Degree Media
