TAMPA — The Dodgers handled humidity, warmth and their very own inconsistency, however they ensured that their longest highway journey of the second half would finish on a optimistic notice.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out six throughout 5 2/3 scoreless innings, and the bullpen was in a position to make a pair of RBI singles from Andy Pages and Freddie Freeman and a sacrifice fly from Mookie Betts maintain up in a 3-0 victory over the Rays on Sunday afternoon.
After dropping two of three final weekend in Boston, the Dodgers received their sequence in Cincinnati and Tampa to clinch a profitable highway journey.
Yamamoto didn’t falter on one other sweltering day at George M. Steinbrenner Discipline, persevering with a latest run of dominance. Following a midseason lull, the 26-year-old right-hander entered Sunday with a 2.27 ERA throughout his earlier six begins.
For a lot of of his outings, Yamamoto has not had a lot margin for error. The identical was true on Sunday, when the Dodgers went into the sport averaging 4.1 runs per recreation began by Yamamoto, tied with Tyler Glasnow for the bottom on the staff.
From the sixth inning on Friday by way of the fifth on Sunday, the Dodgers had gone scoreless for 18 innings earlier than Pages put his staff on the board with an RBI knock to left within the sixth. One inning later, after Shohei Ohtani and Betts — hitting first and second within the order — pulled off a double steal to get in scoring place, Freeman padded L.A.’s lead by driving in Ohtani.
Betts contributed some further insurance coverage with a sacrifice fly to the sting of the outfield grass in left-center within the high of the ninth.
