LOS ANGELES — Courting again to 2013, just one staff has managed to greatest the Dodgers within the NL West. It was the ’21 Giants, who beat out a 106-win Dodgers membership by one recreation within the standings.
The Giants have not been again to the postseason since that 12 months, whereas the Dodgers are the defending champions. However the division at giant is wanting extra aggressive than it has in years previous.
With the Dodgers’ 6-2 loss to the Giants on Friday evening at Dodger Stadium, they relinquished a share of the lead within the NL West to their longtime rivals. It marked the primary time since Might 10 that Los Angeles was not alone in first place within the division, though San Francisco and San Diego have not been far behind.
In a matchup of dueling aces, the Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto was bested by the Giants’ Logan Webb. Yamamoto surrendered a first-inning solo homer to Willy Adames, and because the night went on, it was clear that he was not working along with his greatest command.
That was most evident within the third, when Yamamoto walked the bases loaded earlier than giving up a grand slam to Casey Schmitt. Yamamoto’s evening ended after he walked Schmitt within the fifth for his MLB career-high fifth free go of the sport. It marked solely the second time this season — but in addition the second time in his previous three begins — that Yamamoto didn’t full 5 innings.
Webb held the Dodgers’ lineup to only a pair of hits, permitting a pair of runs on an Andy Pages sacrifice fly within the second and Teoscar Hernández’s solo shot within the seventh.
