Castro hit a double, to drive in Aybar for a run.
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Clayton Kershaw’s fastball is a mid-90s weapon.
Not that it made much difference.
Justin Turner gave Los Angeles the lead with a 10th-inning double and the Dodgers beat Atlanta 5-3 on Wednesday night to snap the Braves’ four-game winning streak. “It was a grind, for sure”.
Grandal brought home Enrique Hernandez in the 10th inning with a blast against Atlanta reliever Alexi Ogando. Chris Hatcher (2-1) worked a scoreless ninth before Kenley Jansen earned his seventh save.
Of the Braves’ 10 hits against Kershaw, eight were singles.
Williams Perez, starting on three days’ rest, held the Dodgers hitless before Adrian Gonzalez singled with one out in the fourth, but Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez pulled him after the next batter, Yasiel Puig, singled hard to left. The Dodgers improved to 2-1 in extra-inning games. He has a 1.79 ERA in six career starts against Atlanta. The Braves got to the three-time Cy Young victor for 10 hits in eight innings, only the fourth time in 246 career starts that he’s given up double figures.
He even unleashed a blooper pitch to Tyler Flowers in the fourth, the looper clocked at a mere 46 miles per hour.
“It was just a grind for Ross today, but to see the bullpen come out and pick him up, it was a big win for us”, Roberts said. He struggled from the first inning, when he threw 27 pitches.
“We had Kershaw on the ropes,” Freeman said. Perez broke camp as the No. 4 starter and made three starts, receiving no decision each time, and a 5.11 ERA in 12 1/3 innings.
“The field has changed a little bit over the years”, Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley said.
“I knew my role coming into tonight was the long relief role”, Weber said. Atlanta squandered plenty of chances, most notably a base-loaded opportunity with no outs in the second.
“When you get into the season and you start going through spring training, you worry about things like that”. “But just inconsistent. I’ll throw a good one, get a swing and miss or a groundout, then hang one”.
Kershaw almost scored the go-ahead run in the seventh. The Dodgers challenged the call, which was upheld after a 4 1-2-minute video review.
“It’s my first time to be thrown out at the plate, I think”, Kershaw said. The Braves acquired Olivera last July 30 in a three-team deal that sent Wood to Los Angeles. The LAD attack consisted of five hits and four bases on balls with Corey Seager driving in Joc Pederson with their lone run.
Atlanta quickly tied it up in the bottom half.
The Dodgers, who don’t want to make excuses for their play, have committed four errors in the first two games of the series and all of them have been on the left side of the infield.
Braves LF Hector Olivera had his paid administrative leave extended to May 3 in an agreement by Major League Baseball and the players’ association.
On a day when manager Dave Roberts wanted to spare his overworked bullpen, the Dodgers played 10 innings for the second day in a row.
Dodgers: LF Carl Crawford (lower back soreness) will begin a rehab assignment Wednesday with Triple-A Oklahoma City and is eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list Sunday….
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RHP Bud Norris tries to bounce back from a couple of rough outings as the Braves open a series against the New York Mets in Atlanta on Friday.
