The Dodgers’ Tyler Glasnow and the Cardinals’ Sonny Grey squared off in an old-school pitchers’ duel Monday. However each have been watching from the clubhouse when pinch-hitter Yohel Pozo’s two-out single within the ninth lifted the Cardinals to a 3-2 victory at Dodger Stadium.
Glasnow gave the Dodgers seven sturdy innings for the second time in three begins, permitting a run on three hits — none after the second inning — whereas hanging out seven. Grey was even higher in his seven innings, giving up only a fourth-inning solo dwelling run to Freddie Freeman and a second-inning stroll to Max Muncy.
Each then gave method to shaky bullpens, which is when issues acquired attention-grabbing.
The Dodgers’ bullpen gave up extra runs over a span of 9 batters than Glasnow did all evening. Anthony Banda went first, permitting a go-ahead homer to Iván Herrera three batters into the eighth inning. However the Cardinals’ Riley O’Brien gave the run proper again within the backside of the inning on a double to Teoscar Hernández.
Newcomer Brock Stewart began the ninth for the Dodgers, however he didn’t end it. After Willson Contreras and Lars Nootbaar greeted him with singles to place runners on the corners, Pozo squirted a two-out single over the infield to attain pinch-runner Garrett Hampson for the go-ahead run.
After Shohei Ohtani’s led off the ninth with a single, the Cardinals’ JoJo Romero lastly shut the door, getting Mookie Betts to come out and hanging out Freeman. After strolling Will Smith to place the tying run at second, he retired Muncy on a line drive to proper to finish the evening.
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hits a solo dwelling within the fourth inning of a 3-2 loss to the Cardinals on Monday.
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Glasnow acquired off to a tough begin, permitting three hits, together with a solo homer by Masyn Winn, within the first two innings. However he settled in after that, permitting only one baserunner the remainder of the way in which, although he would don’t have anything to point out for it, ending with no resolution for the eighth time in 10 begins.
Grey, in the meantime, was dealing from the beginning for the Cardinals, setting down 10 of the primary 11 batters he confronted earlier than Freeman tied the sport with a one-out dwelling run, his thirteenth of the season, within the fourth.
Freeman has hits in 12 of his final 13 video games and is batting .500 over his final six video games. However his dwelling run would show to be the one hit the Dodgers would get off Grey, who struck out eight and walked only one.
Sasaki set to throw
Proper-hander Roki Sasaki is anticipated to throw the equal of three innings to hitters Friday and if that goes effectively, he may start a minor-league rehab project subsequent week. He has not pitched in practically three months after happening the IL with a shoulder impingement.
Edman goes on injured record
Utilityman Hyeseong Kim, out since July 29 with a shoulder concern, is swinging a bat and taking grounders. Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts is optimistic he’ll be capable to return quickly. However one other utility participant, Tommy Edman, went on the IL with an ankle damage. With Kim, Edman and Kiké Hernández, one other utility participant, all out with accidents, Roberts has not had the same old versatility he has loved in fielding a lineup.
