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San Francisco Chronicle
6 days ago
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- San Francisco Chronicle
Muncy's 2 homers and Freeman's RBI double lift Dodgers over Mets 6-5 in 10 innings
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and Freddie Freeman doubled home the winning run in the 10th to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Mets 6-5 on Tuesday night. Freeman's slicing fly to deep left field was misplayed by Brandon Nimmo, who got twisted around and appeared to lose sight of the ball as it dropped on the warning track beside him. That allowed automatic runner Tommy Edman to score from second base with one out, ending New York's four-game winning streak. The Dodgers earned their 20th comeback win of the season after blowing a 4-1 lead they established in the first. They also tied the series opener in the ninth on Monday, but lost 4-3 in 10 innings when reliever Tanner Scott got knocked around. This time, Scott (1-2) retired the side in order in the 10th, striking out Juan Soto and Pete Alonso before Nimmo grounded out. José Buttó (2-1) intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani in the bottom half before Mookie Betts lined out to left field, bringing up Freeman. Los Angeles improved to 2-3 against the Mets this season after eliminating them in Game 6 of the 2024 National League Championship Series. Three of the five meetings between the division leaders this year have gone to extra innings, with two remaining at Dodger Stadium the next two days. Soto, booed by the sellout crowd of 53,424, launched a two-run homer that cut the Mets' deficit to 4-3 in the third. New York tied it on Alonso's RBI double in the fifth that scored Francisco Lindor, who walked and was safe at second on Muncy's error at third base. Nimmo hit a grounder to first and outraced Clayton Kershaw to the bag for a run-scoring infield single. The Mets successfully challenged the initial out call, giving them a 5-4 lead and chasing Kershaw. Muncy's two-run homer highlighted a four-run first for the Dodgers against Tylor Megill, who recovered nicely after that to last six innings. Betts returned after missing four games with a slight fracture to his left toe and went 2 for 5. The grounds crew had to bring out the tarp when a rare June rainstorm pelted Dodger Stadium about 3 1/2 hours before gametime. Soto made a terrific catch of Will Smith's foul fly in the fourth, lunging over the low retaining wall in right field and hanging onto the ball. Key stat The Dodgers managed just two hits between Muncy's first homer in the first and his second in the ninth. Up next ___
Hamilton Spectator
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Muncy's 2 homers and Freeman's RBI double lift Dodgers over Mets 6-5 in 10 innings
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and Freddie Freeman doubled home the winning run in the 10th to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Mets 6-5 on Tuesday night. Freeman's slicing fly to deep left field was misplayed by Brandon Nimmo, who got twisted around and appeared to lose sight of the ball as it dropped on the warning track beside him. That allowed automatic runner Tommy Edman to score from second base with one out, ending New York's four-game winning streak. The Dodgers earned their 20th comeback win of the season after blowing a 4-1 lead they established in the first. They also tied the series opener in the ninth on Monday, but lost 4-3 in 10 innings when reliever Tanner Scott got knocked around. This time, Scott (1-2) retired the side in order in the 10th, striking out Juan Soto and Pete Alonso before Nimmo grounded out. José Buttó (2-1) intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani in the bottom half before Mookie Betts lined out to left field, bringing up Freeman. Los Angeles improved to 2-3 against the Mets this season after eliminating them in Game 6 of the 2024 National League Championship Series. Three of the five meetings between the division leaders this year have gone to extra innings, with two remaining at Dodger Stadium the next two days. Juan Soto, booed by the sellout crowd of 53,424, launched a two-run homer that cut the Mets' deficit to 4-3 in the third. New York tied it on Alonso's RBI double in the fifth that scored Francisco Lindor, who walked and was safe at second on Muncy's error at third base. Nimmo hit a grounder to first and outraced Clayton Kershaw to the bag for a run-scoring infield single. The Mets successfully challenged the initial out call, giving them a 5-4 lead and chasing Kershaw. Muncy's two-run homer highlighted a four-run first for the Dodgers against Tylor Megill, who recovered nicely after that to last six innings. Betts returned after missing four games with a slight fracture to his left toe and went 2 for 5. The grounds crew had to bring out the tarp when a rare June rainstorm pelted Dodger Stadium about 3 1/2 hours before gametime. Key moment Soto made a terrific catch of Will Smith's foul fly in the fourth, lunging over the low retaining wall in right field and hanging onto the ball. Key stat The Dodgers managed just two hits between Muncy's first homer in the first and his second in the ninth. Up next Mets RHP Griffin Canning (5-2, 3.23 ERA) starts Wednesday night against Dodgers RHP Tony Gonsolin (3-1, 5.23). ___ AP MLB:
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Muncy's 2 homers and Freeman's RBI double lift Dodgers over Mets 6-5 in 10 innings
LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and Freddie Freeman doubled home the winning run in the 10th to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Mets 6-5 on Tuesday night. Freeman's slicing fly to deep left field was misplayed by Brandon Nimmo, who got twisted around and appeared to lose sight of the ball as it dropped on the warning track beside him. That allowed automatic runner Tommy Edman to score from second base with one out, ending New York's four-game winning streak. The Dodgers earned their 20th comeback win of the season after blowing a 4-1 lead they established in the first. They also tied the series opener in the ninth on Monday, but lost 4-3 in 10 innings when reliever Tanner Scott got knocked around. This time, Scott retired the side in order in the 10th, striking out Juan Soto and Pete Alonso before Nimmo grounded out. José Buttó intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani in the bottom half before Mookie Betts lined out to left field, bringing up Freeman. Los Angeles improved to 2-3 against the Mets this season after eliminating them in Game 6 of the 2024 National League Championship Series. Three of the five meetings between the division leaders this year have gone to extra innings, with two remaining at Dodger Stadium the next two days. Juan Soto, booed by the sellout crowd of 53,424, launched a two-run homer that cut the Mets' deficit to 4-3 in the third. New York tied it on Alonso's RBI double in the fifth that scored Francisco Lindor, who walked and was safe at second on Muncy's error at third base. Nimmo hit a grounder to first and outraced Clayton Kershaw to the bag for a run-scoring infield single. The Mets successfully challenged the initial out call, giving them a 5-4 lead and chasing Kershaw. Muncy's two-run homer highlighted a four-run first for the Dodgers against Tylor Megill, who recovered nicely after that to last six innings. Betts returned after missing four games with a slight fracture to his left toe and went 2 for 5. The grounds crew had to bring out the tarp when a rare June rainstorm pelted Dodger Stadium about 3 1/2 hours before gametime. Soto made a terrific catch of Will Smith's foul fly in the fourth, lunging over the low retaining wall in right field and hanging onto the ball. The Dodgers managed just two hits between Muncy's first homer in the first and his second in the ninth. Mets RHP Griffin Canning starts Wednesday night against Dodgers RHP Tony Gonsolin .
Express Tribune
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Dodgers vs Mets 7-5: Teoscar Hernandez clutch in 13th-inning RBI double
Teoscar Hernández delivered the decisive blow with an RBI double in the 13th inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Mets 7–5 in a chaotic rematch of the 2024 National League Championship Series at a rain-soaked Citi Field. The game began on Friday night and stretched into early Saturday morning, with the Mets staging a dramatic comeback to tie the game 5–5 in the bottom of the ninth, only to fall short in extras. Hernández's double brought home automatic runner Will Smith before he advanced to third and later scored on Andy Pages' sacrifice fly, giving Los Angeles a two-run cushion. Rain halted play for 98 minutes in the third inning, delaying Clayton Kershaw's second start of the season. Despite the interruption, the Dodgers outlasted the Mets in a game that lasted over four hours, excluding the rain stoppage. Luis García secured the win with 2⅓ hitless innings in relief, celebrating on the mound after Tommy Edman's sliding catch sealed the victory at 12:56 a.m. A fireworks display followed, as promised, for the remaining fans among the 40,449 who had braved the late finish. Earlier, the Mets rallied from a 5–2 deficit. Jeff McNeil drove in two runs with a triple, and Tyrone Taylor tied the game with an RBI single in the ninth off Dodgers closer Tanner Scott, who was handed his fourth blown save of the season. The Mets squandered multiple opportunities across five scoreless extra innings, stranding the potential winning run at third base in both the ninth and 11th innings. Dodgers pitchers held firm, cycling through arms before breaking through against Huascar Brazobán, the ninth Mets pitcher of the night. Brett Baty homered for New York, while Pete Alonso was credited with a rare sacrifice fly following an obstruction call at third base. For Los Angeles, Will Smith, Max Muncy, and Andy Pages all contributed RBI singles. The Dodgers improved to 20–5 at Citi Field since 2017, including postseason games, continuing their recent dominance over the Mets. Up Next: Tony Gonsolin (2–0, 4.05 ERA) starts for the Dodgers on Saturday against Mets left-hander David Peterson (2–2, 2.86 ERA).
Fox Sports
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Dodgers vs. Mets roundtable: Does Juan Soto make New York favorites in NLCS rematch?
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets will go head-to-head this weekend in a highly-anticipated rematch of the 2024 National League Championship Series (Saturday, 7:15 p.m. ET on FOX). Both teams have added talent to their rosters since their last meeting in October, but will that change the outcome of the series? FOX Sports MLB reporters Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar preview the marquee matchup at Citi Field: 1. Last year's NLCS went six games, but it still felt like the Dodgers were in control for almost all of it, given they kicked things off with a 9-0 shutout, blanked the Mets again in Game 3, and outscored them 46-26 in the series overall. Has New York closed the talent gap between the two teams enough for this rematch — and any future 2025 meeting — to change that lopsided feeling? Kavner: Right now, with the Dodgers in their current depleted form, this matchup does not feel lopsided. Heading into the year, we were talking about the Dodgers as maybe the best team we'd ever seen assembled. There were serious questions, meanwhile, about whether the Mets had enough pitching to get where they hoped to go despite their reloaded lineup. Two months in, the Mets have the lowest ERA in MLB while the Dodgers, stunningly, rank 22nd. Only two members of L.A.'s Opening Day rotation are still upright, and the Dodgers have needed more innings from their beleaguered bullpen than any team in MLB. You could compile one of the best pitching staffs in baseball using the players on their injured list alone. For that reason, I still think the talent of a full-strength Dodgers team is unparalleled. But for now, their diminished pitching staff is extremely susceptible. And while they've still piled up wins, at no point have they looked like the overpowering team we expected to see. They seem to be treating the start of the season a bit like a dress rehearsal, and it's not always easy to flip a switch, no matter how good a team should be on paper. Thosar: The Mets may have closed the talent gap on paper by signing a generational hitter like Juan Soto to hit between Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso, and by engineering Mark Vientos' breakout season last year (and perhaps Brett Baty's success' this year). But the way the Mets offense is dragging its feet since pretty much the start of May is not indicative of how the lineup hits when its performing at its best. Just like Alonso's transcendent April (.343 batting average, 1.132 OPS) was unsustainable, so is the current lack of production from the Mets' Big Three. That being said, the Mets pitching staff isn't stacked with superstars, but it has boasted the best ERA in the major leagues all season. We've yet to see the 2025 Mets operating as effectively and powerfully as they're capable of, and they still spent six weeks in first place in one of the toughest divisions in baseball. The pieces are there. But the execution, apparently, needs time. 2. In 2024, the Mets' rotation was basically average, but swapping out Luis Severino (100 ERA+), Sean Manaea (112 ERA+) and Jose Quintana (104 ERA+) for a healthy Kodai Senga (NL-leading 271 ERA+), Clay Holmes (124 ERA+) and Griffin Canning (157 ERA+) has done wonders for them in the early going. Holmes thrived in relief for the Yankees the last few years before the Mets converted him to start, and Canning escaped the gravitational pull of the Angels this offseason — is there any reason to believe this trio can keep pitching above their preseason expectations? Kavner: Can that trio continue to produce better than preseason expectations? Absolutely. Will those three remain at this elite level all year? Probably not. I see some regression ahead, but we're not in April anymore, so you can't just brush off the stunning, MLB-best 2.83 starters ERA that the Mets have amassed before they've even gotten Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas back. Holmes' expanded arsenal has turned him into a legit starter. He has gone six innings in each of his four starts this month, though it remains to be seen how he holds up as the innings pile up. Nothing about Griffin Canning's underlying numbers suggest a 5-1 record and a 2.47 ERA, but he's keeping the ball on the ground better than ever before and attacking the strike zone. Senga's ability to keep the ball in the park is noteworthy — he has allowed one home run all year — and his ghost fork is nasty, but his National League-best 1.43 ERA is nearly two runs lower than his expected ERA. Clearly, general manager David Stearns and the Mets' pitching department know what they're doing and this group is way better than I anticipated, even if I don't expect it to remain the league's best all season. Thosar: If there's one thing I learned not to do after the success of the Mets pitching staff (yet again!) this year, it's to put any expectations on a rotation constructed by David Stearns. Last season, too, baseball analysts widely believed the Mets were in a reset year because of all the one-year deals with pitchers who were trying to bounce back after down years. Then they ended up falling two wins short of a trip to the World Series. With more surprisingly effective performances from starters like Holmes and Canning this season, the Stearns-era Mets are becoming known for signing a bunch of rag-tag arms, playing to their strengths, and squeezing out the most juice from those pitchers. If there was any doubt about Canning, who allowed the most earned runs (99) in the American League last year, much of that was erased after he held the Yankees to two runs over 5.1 innings over the weekend. His start against the Dodgers will be another one to watch. 3. As for the Dodgers' rotation, it's a mess, but that didn't stop them from winning the World Series last October either. What's your expectation for it going forward? Will Roki Sasaki come back healthy and throw strikes? How much can the Dodgers rely on Clayton Kershaw? On Shohei Ohtani, whenever he returns to the mound? Will the bullpen survive its present workload long enough for the answers to matter? Kavner: It's entirely dependent on injury recovery, and if there's any silver lining, it's that none of the injuries to the players they're counting on most appear to be season enders. At this point, I'm not expecting Sasaki to be a difference-maker this year. I view Kershaw as an important inning eater, and seeing him get to 3,000 strikeouts will be fun, but it's hard to view him as someone the team can rely on come October. The Dodgers need some combination of Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell and Ohtani looking right on the mound in the second half. If that happens, it could still end up one of the best units in baseball. Until then, though, Yoshinobu Yamamoto might be the most important player on the team. The Dodgers need him to be an ace right now, and he is answering that call. As for the bullpen, it's a bleak situation until Blake Treinen and Kirby Yates get back. It's almost unfathomable the Dodgers are already at this point after revamping this offseason specifically so this wouldn't occur, but they're still 31-19 despite the rampant injury issues — it turns out having Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman atop the lineup helps! — and I expect the offense to be good enough to keep the Dodgers at or near the top of the standings as they await pitching reinforcements. Thosar: It's anybody's guess how effective Sasaki will be when he returns, but there's an argument to be made that he'll look more like himself once the shoulder injury is behind him, since it's likely that the pain was impacting him on the mound more than we knew. As far as Kershaw, his drop in velocity, though expected, seems concerning. Opposing hitters can feast on a fastball that averaged 87.5 mph in five rehab starts this year. But there's reason for optimism. A result of the Dodgers' mess is how hard they're pushing Yoshinobu Yamamoto to go the distance, so it's even sweeter when he delivers — like he did on Tuesday night against the Diamondbacks. Yamamoto is the only dependable starter remaining in the Dodgers rotation, and if he can keep being their stopper until Los Angeles is closer to resembling full health, then the club should be able to survive this rotation depletion. the Mets and Dodgers play in competitive divisions full of some of the National League's finest. Which do you believe is more likely to be pushed into a wild card spot, rather than a division title, despite their obvious talent? Kavner: The Mets. The Dodgers have seen their pitching crumble again and have played about as mediocre as they can through two months…and they're still first place. The Padres, Giants and D-backs will push them, but when the Dodgers' pitching staff gets healthier, they're clearly the most talented team in their division. I think the Phillies (who have one of the scariest rotations in MLB despite their bullpen issues) and Braves (who are over .500 now as Ronald Acuña Jr. inches closer toward a return) will make the road to a division title much tougher for the Mets. Thosar: The Mets. Though they looked dominant during their six-week stretch in first place this season, they haven't finished the job and actually won the division since 2015, which is the same year they went to the World Series. And even though last year they exorcised some demons by defeating the Braves in a pennant race and eliminating the Phillies in the NLDS, that doesn't remove the years of damage done to their psyche from those division rivals. Unless the Mets are able to pull away from the rest of the NL East in September, I'm expecting the division winner there to come down to the wire. The Dodgers, on the other hand, seem destined to run it back, with tons of recent examples of securing the division title on their side. (They won the NL West in 11 of the last 12 years). 5. This series features MLB's two highest-paid players in Juan Soto (15 years, $765 million) and Shohei Ohtani (10 years, $700 million before accounting for deferrals). You're building a team around one of these superstars, as they are today, with every year and dollar left on their contracts now your responsibility — who are you taking? Kavner: Ohtani. Without question. I expect Soto will eventually look more comfortable than he has through the early portion of his Mets tenure, but I'll still take Ohtani's heavily-deferred deal — which might be the best bargain in sports history — over 15 years of Soto 10 times out of 10. If Ohtani can return to his previous form on the mound, that's a potential Cy Young winner. If he can't, he proved last year he's still an MVP talent as an offensive force alone. I don't see that changing for a long time. Add that ability to the unrivaled revenue streams he creates, and it's a no-brainer for me. That contract will pay for itself. Thosar: Ohtani. He's a better hitter than Soto, and the way his contract is designed allows for more roster flexibility and the freedom to sign more superstars without being saddled by a massive annual average value that impacts other decision making. Plus, Ohtani might just come back and pitch like a Cy Young-caliber ace again. So at best, you're getting two players for the price of one. And the worst-case scenario is that Ohtani is no longer an effective pitcher, and even then, he'll still be a powerful designated hitter. Whereas with Soto, even though he's four years younger than Ohtani, his long-term role with the Mets figures to be at DH, and that might happen sooner than later if his defense becomes a real problem. So I'm taking Ohtani every time. Rowan Kavner is an MLB writer for FOX Sports. He previously covered the L.A. Dodgers, LA Clippers and Dallas Cowboys. An LSU grad, Rowan was born in California, grew up in Texas, then moved back to the West Coast in 2014. Follow him on Twitter at @RowanKavner . Deesha Thosar is an MLB writer for FOX Sports. She previously covered the Mets as a beat reporter for the New York Daily News. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Deesha grew up on Long Island and now lives in Queens. Follow her on Twitter at @DeeshaThosar . recommended Get more from Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
