LOS ANGELES — The Giants are leaving Los Angeles with one thing.
After dropping the primary three video games of their four-game set with the Dodgers, the Giants (77-79) averted being swept by incomes a 3-1 win on Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Rookie right-hander Trevor McDonald turned in the most effective outing of his younger major-league profession, permitting one run over six innings with three strikeouts.
The Giants will now return house to San Francisco for his or her last six video games of the season: three in opposition to the St. Louis Cardinals, three in opposition to the Colorado Rockies.
Within the backside of the sixth, McDonald acquired an enormous help from his infield. Shohei Ohtani led off the inning by lunging at a well-placed down-and-away changeup. McDonald shattered Ohtani’s bat, however Ohtani muscled a comfortable line drive into proper discipline for a single, representing the go-ahead run of a scoreless recreation.
With Ohtani on first, McDonald used a sinker to induce a grounder off the bat of Mookie Betts. Shortstop Willy Adames went into a brief slide and fielded Betts’ grounder on the backhand. From his knees, Adames fired to second baseman Christian Koss. As an alternative of stopping his momentum, Koss acquired the ball as he tagged the bag, then made a leaping throw to first baseman Bryce Eldridge.
Within the seventh, the dam lastly broke.
McDonald started the inning by strolling Max Muncy, who benefited from a pair of curveballs on the backside of the zone that had been referred to as balls as an alternative of strikes. Andy Pages adopted Muncy’s stroll with a single, then former Large Michael Conforto scored the sport’s first run with an opposite-field single, spelling the tip of McDonald’s day.
With runners on second and third following Miguel Rojas’ sacrifice bunt, pinch-hitter Tommy Edman turned on a cutter by Spencer Bivens that regarded destined to roll down the right-field foul line and rating a pair of runs. Enter Eldridge, who used his six-foot-seven body to make a diving catch, then fired to Chapman at third to double off Pages.
Instantly following Eldridge’s inning-ending double play, the Giants’ offense lastly discovered life by placing up a three-spot in opposition to reliever Blake Treinen, who was showered with boos as he was taken out of the sport in the course of the inning.
Patrick Bailey tied the sport at one apiece, coming off the bench to ship a pinch-hit, ground-rule double that scored Koss. Rafael Devers was deliberately walked with one out to load the bases, then Willy Adames adopted by drawing a nine-pitch stroll to attain one other run. Matt Chapman’s check-swing groundout scored Bailey to present the Giants a 3-1 lead.
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