Mookie Betts made the twenty fifth lead-off house run of his main league profession and the Los Angeles Dodgers maintained their dominance over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 6-3 win on Thursday.
Betts took the third litter he noticed from Mitch Keller (3-7) and despatched it to the bullpen behind the midfield fence for his sixth homer this season. Cody Bellinger and Justin Turner had two hits every, and Zack McKinstry took two runs as Los Angeles gained their thirteenth straight win over the Pirates. Phil Bickford made his first save when the sport was known as out within the prime of the eighth inning after a rain delay of 1 hour and quarter-hour.
Julio Urías (9-2) grew to become the first-ever nine-game winner within the majors, working six innings to offer the overwhelmed Los Angeles bullpen some respite. Urías added a two-run single on Keller’s third off after the Pirates intentionally ran catcher Austin Barnes to load the bases with two outs.
The win gave the Dodgers their sixth straight win of the season. It additionally matched their longest ever profitable streak towards Pittsburgh. They performed 13 consecutive video games from the Pirates from Might 4 to July 20, 1952 when the franchise was in Brooklyn.
Keller, who left his earlier begin final Friday with a “heat-related sickness” after simply two innings, stays a thriller. The 25-year-old struggled along with his command: he went three and hit a pair of batter whereas solely taking part in 2 2/3 innings lasted and solely threw 41 of his 72 pitches for strikes.
Bryan Reynolds scored his tenth house run for the Pirates. Adam Frazier prolonged his hitting streak to the highest 13 video games of his profession, however Pittsburgh has misplaced 4 in a row and is 11-27 of their final 38 video games after ticking simply above .500 (12-11) in late April.
The Los Angeles helpers coated 7 1/3 innings on Wednesday night in a rain-delayed 2-1 win. Urias wasn’t notably astute – he allowed a minimum of one base runner in every of the primary 4 innings – however averted main issues.
It helps to have Betts patrol the proper subject. Betts saved a run when he made an excellent play to knock Pittsburgh’s Erik González onto the plate within the second spherical. The five-time Gold Glover sensed a sinking line drive from the bat Ka’ai Tom in flat proper after which spun 360 levels earlier than throwing house the place his one-hopper arrived simply earlier than González put his left hand below catcher Austin. Barnes’ sweeping label might slide.
Urías allowed three runs with six hits in six innings with out issuing a stroll. His solely main mistake got here on a 1-2 curveball to Reynolds with two outs within the third, that Reynolds golfed into the locations on the left to tug the Pirates inside 4-3. Urías has additionally turn out to be useful with a membership in hand. His sharp single towards Keller within the third ran in two runs, boosting his RBI whole to seven in simply 29 file appearances that season. He solely had 4 RBIs within the first 4 seasons of his mixed profession via 2021.
TRAINER ROOM
Pirates: RHP Luis Oviedo was added to the 10-day casualty listing retrospectively from June seventh with left quadriceps stress and activated RHP Trevor Cahill. … 1B Colin Moran was taken off line the day after taking a pitch from Los Angeles’ David Value.
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Dodgers: Return to Dodger Stadium on Friday to start out a three-game set with Texas. Clayton Kershaw (7-5, 3.66 ERA) will face Mike Foltynewicz (1-6, 4.75) within the begin.
Pirates: Journey to Milwaukee on Friday for a three-game collection with the Brewers. Chase De Jong (0-0, 5.40) begins towards Brandon Woodruff (4-2, 1.42 ERA).
