Segedin hit his second big league homer off San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner in the second inning, then left in the eighth during a 9-5 win Tuesday. “Obviously, I don’t think we’ve fared too well in one-run games this year”.
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The Dodgers and Giants still play eight more times this season, including the last three games of the regular season.
Major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks pitched six effective innings and the Chicago Cubs finished off a three-game sweep, beating the San Diego Padres 6-3 on Wednesday. San Francisco grew a five-game cushion over the rival Dodgers, a team that’s been hit with injury after injury throughout the course of the season. Los Angeles’s pitching staff has fallen apart in the past 10 games. Stripling was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City to start in place of Brett Anderson, who landed on the disabled list with a blister on his left index finger.
The Dodgers recorded their MLB-leading 12th shutout of the season and their first 1-0 victory over the Giants since July 20, 2011 at AT&T Park. “Just mentally, it felt great”. He kept the Giants off balance with a variety pack of off-speed pitches – one of which floated toward the plate at 52 miles per hour.
“The intensity was extremely exciting, with the crowd into it and the guys making unbelievable plays behind me”, Hill said. “I’ve seen it all year”, Reddick said of Hill’s outing.
Pedro Baez and Adam Liberatore tag-teamed the seventh inning.
Kenley Jansen allowed a homer to Denard Span but still got his 36th save. Jansen tied Jim Brewer’s franchise mark for career strikeouts by a reliever with 604. “Tip your cap to Rich [Hill] and the bullpen”.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Kendall Graveman pitched into the seventh inning to become Oakland’s first 10-game victor this season, and the Athletics beat Cleveland.
In his most recent outing, Stripling pitched 5.0 innings, giving up three runs (one unearned), striking out five and walking two in a 5-4 loss to the Phillies. He gave up a run in the third inning on a triple by Leonys Martin and single by Ketel Marte, but allowed just one single and his lone walk over the next four innings.
The Giants are 31-47 in games where they allow one or more home runs.
“It’s part of the game”, Cueto said.
Nova (10-6) struck out six, walked one and threw 69 of his 98 pitches for strikes while improving to 3-0 in four starts since being acquired from the New York Yankees in an August 1 trade.
Human nature suggests the longer this dive goes, the harder it must be to keep the negativity from creeping into their heads. The Giants need Matt Moore to do in his fifth Giants start what Hill did in his first for the Dodgers. The San Francisco Giants have an ERA of 3.81 and have lost seven of their last eight games when allowing more than three runs.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts did not take out Blanton for the left-handed matchup with Crawford, either showing confidence in the veteran setup man or betting on Crawford’s reverse split that has favored lefties the past few seasons. It got in on me a little bit, so I didn’t square it up quite as well as I would have wanted to.
Turner homered in the fourth for the first hit against Cueto.
Michael Saunders hit his 21st home run, a solo shot off A.J. Achter in the eighth, and Edwin Encarnacion and Darwin Barney each reached base three times as the Blue Jays won their fifth straight over the Angels.
“It was a cutter, but it stayed up in the middle of the plate”, Cueto said. But the Giants could only swat flies against Hill, and Turner’s shot made a victor of the well-traveled 36-year-old with a killer curveball who was making his Dodgers debut. Robin Segedin was in labor, but was expected to have their baby later in the night. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chase Utley, right, hops over the bag after being put out at first by San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in Los Angeles.
In Cincinnati, Dan Straily extended his surge since the All-Star break by pitching six innings and Joey Votto drove in a pair of runs.
Hill has an impressive 2.09 ERA and a slightly less impressive 3.51 SIERA on the season, with a 27.8 percent strikeout rate and 8.4 walk percentage through 82 innings pitched.
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Attendance: The Dodgers announced a crowd of 43,957 human beings.
