Fifteen minutes earlier than first pitch on Sunday, Giants catcher Logan Porter trotted in from the customer’s bullpen. He’d normally be accompanied by the beginning pitcher, which was set to be left-hander Kyle Harrison.
As an alternative, Porter stood on the first-base line for the nationwide anthem, turned to his left and whispered to his teammates. As all of them acquired the knowledge from Porter — paying homage to the kids’s sport “Telephone” — different Giants teammates seemingly discovered one-by-one that Harrison had been traded.
“It was crazy,” Dodgers second baseman Tommy Edman stated. “You don’t expect a trade like that this time of year and just getting the pitching change at the last minute.”
The odd scene at Dodger Stadium was due to a reported blockbuster commerce that concerned the Boston Pink Sox sending infielder Rafael Devers to the Giants in change for Harrison, right-hander Jordan Hicks and two prospects — a transfer that additional bolsters the expertise within the L.A.-San Francisco rivalry.
“Those guys over there are doing a great job of putting a team together and obviously, they want to win,” stated shortstop Mookie Betts, who was teammates with Devers in Boston from 2017 to 2019.
San Francisco supervisor Bob Melvin was compelled to show to lengthy reliever Sean Hjelle, who quickly warmed up for the beginning, in opposition to a Dodgers offense that had scored 11 runs Saturday evening. As Betts stated after the sport, irrespective of who the Giants have been going to throw at them in response, they have been ready. The Dodgers had carried out their “homework,” he stated.
It was extra of the identical from the Dodgers’ offense in a 5-4 victory Sunday. The highest of the order manufactured a run by way of an Andy Pages sacrifice fly within the first inning. Edman hit a solo house run — his tenth — within the second. Pages put a cherry on prime within the fifth after Shohei Ohtani (three for 3, one stroll) and Mookie Betts set the desk with singles.
Dodgers pitcher Dustin Might delivers in opposition to the Giants at Dodger Stadium on Sunday.
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The Cuban slugger’s three-run house run helped the Dodgers (43-29) restore a two-game lead over the Giants (41-31) within the NL West standings.
“It’s really emotional, a special moment to hit a home run in that situation because I haven’t seen him,” Pages stated by an interpreter, talking about his father again in Cuba. “It’s hard sometimes. But it was really special to hit a home run on Father’s Day.”
On the mound, Dustin Might was trying to get again on monitor.
Might’s latest begins left extra to be desired from the previous prime prospect who had been struggling together with his command and never tallying many swinging strikes. He had struck out simply six batters throughout his final 11 innings — hanging out only one in his final outing.
Though Might couldn’t discover his strikeout pitch, his begin Sunday was the sixth time he had pitched by the sixth inning in 2025. He walked 4 batters for the second time in as many begins — the one time he’s issued a minimum of 4 free passes in back-to-back video games in his profession — and struck out three batters. He didn’t have his finest stuff, however confirmed his mettle within the fifth inning.
Whereas he crumbled within the fourth, giving up a two-RBI triple to Jung Hoo Lee to present the Giants a 3-2 lead, he battled out of a bases-loaded jam to maintain San Francisco at bay, inducing Porter into an inning-ending groundout.
After Pages additional strengthened his All-Star case together with his thirteenth house run, the Dodgers’ bullpen took care of enterprise. Alex Vesia tossed a shutout seventh, whereas Kirby Yates (one run) and Tanner Scott (zero runs and struck out the aspect) completed it off within the eighth and ninth, respectively.
“It was good to see us find a way to win a ballgame,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated. “Dustin got a little traffic there in the fourth but he finds a way, as he has shown, to still manage to get through six and to use the guys we wanted to and win a ballgame.”
Sasaki’s standing unsure
Ohtani will begin Monday in opposition to the San Diego Padres, however it’s nonetheless not clear when right-hander Roki Sasaki will return. Roberts stated Sasaki (proper shoulder impingement) lately halted his throwing program.
“There was some rubbing, is the word he used,” Roberts stated. “He’s pain-free. When we start that build-up, it should be soon. He’s already moving around. We all feel encouraged where he’s at right now, as far as the pain.”
The Dodgers positioned the 23-year-old rookie on the injured record Might 13. Roberts didn’t specify what Sasaki’s situation is aside from that he’s out indefinitely.
Piecing collectively the beginning rotation for the week forward, Emmet Sheehan is about to be activated Tuesday or Wednesday, Roberts stated.
