1B Adrian Gonzalez hit a walk-off double in the ninth inning to lift the Dodgers to a 2-1 win over the Giants on Monday.
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Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner and Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig exchanged words before the teams’ benches and bullpens cleared after the end of the seventh inning.
OF Andrew Toles started the Dodgers’ winning rally against the Giants with a pinch-hit, leadoff single in the ninth. “That was a tough one”. Instead, he was done and the bullpen blew the game in the ninth. Sep.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I know this is a battle-tested group and they’ll go out there and play their normal game as hard as they can. They did a good job, manufactured a run, and we couldn’t hold on there”.
LOS ANGELES Madison Bumgarner lit a fire without a spark in the seventh inning Monday night.
Against a generational talent like Kershaw, scoring often means taking advantage of even the smallest opportunities, and that’s exactly what Eduardo Nunez did to give the Giants their only run of the game in the third inning. One thing is for certain: this probably won’t be the last time Bumgarner and Puig – or the Giants and Dodgers, for that matter – mix things up. The left-hander punched his glove emphatically and said something that didn’t appear to be cordial.
And if Bumgarner simply wanted to add drama to a 1-0 game, equal parts crapshooter and provocateur, then maybe he went out on his own terms. Kershaw dived and tried to backhand the ball, but it got by him and Chase Utley’s throw pulled Gonzalez off first base as Nunez slid headfirst into the bag. “That’s what it looked like to me”.
“He asked me, ‘Why you looking at me?'” Puig said through a translator, per The Associated Press. “I asked him why he was looking at me”. That was a double by Yasiel Puig in the second inning, a drive that did not improve his relationship with Bumgarner.
After the game, Bumgarner didn’t look gimpy or say he was hurt by the jostling in the Puig incident, so let’s assume he was fine. “We had a talk”, he said, “and I’ll leave it at that”, which indicated he might have taken him out for blood-pressure reasons.
We have a lot of questions about this entire mess. “It definitely motivates us and seems to have a distraction in their head”.
Cubs lefty Jon Lester (17-4, 2.40 ERA) has thrown 17 consecutive scoreless innings, a streak he’ll try to stretch against the Reds. Kershaw, who retired the final seven batters he faced, threw 88 pitches (62 strikes). He struck out seven and walked one. The three-time NL Cy Young Award victor retired seven in a row before leaving. Since the lead changed hands, San Francisco has dropped 16 of 27 and the Dodgers have won 18 of 28.
Both teams have 12 games remaining in the regular season, including five against each other.
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LHP Alex Wood (posterior elbow impingement) is expected to be activated Tuesday. A corresponding move was still being discussed, manager Dave Roberts said before the game. The team hasn’t decided when LHP Brett Anderson (finger blister, back surgery) will return. The right-hander has five complete games in 30 starts this season, including one in his last outing on Thursday against the Cardinals.
