3 days ago
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- San Francisco Chronicle
Giants-Dodgers lives up to hype as Willy Adames, Jung Hoo Lee lead S.F. to 8-7 win
The sold-out crowd at Oracle Park was abuzz on Friday night. Not just for the relevant-again rivalry, but the implications.
With the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in town riding a six-game losing streak for the first half's final weekend, the San Francisco Giants have an opportunity to gain ground within the National League West before the All-Star break.
Shohei Ohtani captured all the attention early, hitting a two-run Splash Hit off Logan Webb in the third inning. The home run erased an early Giants lead taken on Willy Adames' solo home run in the second inning, but was just the beginning of a frenetic, offensive outpouring on both ends.
The Giants answered by taking advantage of Dodgers starter Dustin May's poor command in the fourth inning. May threw six consecutive balls to Rafael Devers and Matt Chapman, resulting in two leadoff walks. Jung Hoo Lee began his stellar night with a triple into the right-center gap, a magnet on this night for big hits. Lee nearly scored on Casey Schmitt's potential sacrifice fly, but a perfect throw from left fielder Michael Conforto got him by a half-second — a call confirmed on review.
Then the Giants batted around in a five-run fifth inning. It began with Dom Smith's opposite-field home run, which peaked with Adames' two-run triple into the right-center gap and Lee's infield RBI single to make it 8-2.
It seemed a comfortable lead for Webb, who rarely gets that kind of run support and had been cruising since Ohtani's home run. But the Dodgers were smoking Webb's offerings in the sixth inning.
Giants 8, Dodgers 7
Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Totals 37 7 11 7 2 6
Ohtani dh 4 1 1 2 1 0.278
Betts ss 4 2 2 0 0 1.249
1-Ruiz pr 0 0 0 0 0 0.300
Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 1 0.295
c 5 1 2 1 0 0.328
Hernández rf 4 1 1 2 0 2.257
Conforto lf 4 1 1 2 0 1.176
Pages cf 4 0 1 0 0 1.283
Kim 2b 4 1 3 0 0 1.349
Edman 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0.230
San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Totals 31 8 9 8 6 7
Yastrzemski rf 3 1 1 0 1 2.245
Ramos lf 5 0 0 0 0 2.265
Devers dh 2 1 0 0 2 0.220
Chapman 3b 3 2 0 1 1 1.241
Adames ss 4 2 2 3 0 1.225
Lee cf 4 0 3 3 0 1.251
Schmitt 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0.264
1b 4 1 1 1 0 0.244
Bailey c 3 1 2 0 1 0.200
Los Angeles 002 004 100_7 11 0
San Francisco 010 250 00x_8 9 1
1-ran for Betts in the 9th.
E_Lee (2). LOB_Los Angeles 6, San Francisco 6. 2B_W.Smith (16), Hernández (18), Betts (13), Kim (6), Yastrzemski (14). 3B_Lee (8), Adames (2). HR_Ohtani (32), off Webb; Conforto (8), off Webb; Adames (12), off May; (2), off May. RBIs_Ohtani 2 (60), Hernández 2 (56), Conforto 2 (23), (46), Adames 3 (48), Lee 3 (40), (10), Chapman (31). SB_Kim 2 (11), Ruiz (2). S_Yastrzemski.
Runners left in scoring position_Los Angeles 3 ( Edman 2); San Francisco 3 ( Ramos, Devers). RISP_Los Angeles 4 for 10; San Francisco 3 for 11.
Runners moved up_Freeman, Edman. LIDP_Schmitt. GIDP_W.Smith.
DP_Los Angeles 1 (Conforto, Conforto); San Francisco 1 (Chapman, Schmitt,
Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
May, L, 5-6 4 2-3 5 7 7 4 4 85 4.96
Banda 1-3 2 1 1 1 0 21 4.14
Dreyer 1 1 0 0 0 1 11 3.02
Trivino 1 1 0 0 0 0 15 5.84
Klein 1 0 0 0 1 2 22 3.68
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Webb, W, 9-6 5 1-3 6 6 6 1 6 91 2.94
Rodríguez, H, 13 1 2-3 3 1 1 0 0 29 0.89
Rogers, H, 20 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 1.59
Doval, S, 15-19 1 1 0 0 1 0 14 3.02
Inherited runners-scored_Banda 2-2. HBP_Webb (Betts).
Umpires_Home, Brian O'Nora; First, Mike Estabrook; Second, John Bacon; Third, Laz Diaz.
T_2:46. A_40,785 (41,915).
After hitting Mookie Betts with a pitch, Webb surrendered back-to-back doubles to Will Smith and Teoscar Hernandez. The latter bounced off Lee's glove as he slightly overran the ball. Then Conforto punished a ball into center field for another two-run homer to make it 8-6, and Webb was taken out.
Randy Rodriguez allowed a run in the seventh inning, the fourth total run he's allowed in 40 appearances, to make it a one-run game. Camilo Doval came in for the ninth with Ohtani, Betts and Freddie Freeman due up.
Doval flirted with trouble. Betts singled and pinch-runner Esteury Ruiz stole second base, leading to a Freddie Freeman walk. Then Smith hit into a game-ending double play.
