ANAHEIM — The Dodgers meant to be proactive by pushing again Yoshinobu Yamamoto‘s begin to Monday night time, giving him a full week off in between outings. The additional day didn’t seem to have the constructive impact the staff hoped for.
Yamamoto gave up six runs, all earned, for the primary time in his Main League profession, and the Dodgers fell, 7-4, to the Angels within the Freeway Sequence opener.
Shohei Ohtani’s forty second residence run of the season — and his a centesimal at Angel Stadium — and Max Muncy’s three-run drive obtained the Dodgers inside hanging distance within the eighth inning, however there was no coming all the way in which again.
In the meantime, the Padres beat the Giants in San Francisco to maneuver only one recreation again of first place within the Nationwide League West.
The Dodgers’ divisional lead is the smallest it has been since June 14, once they held a one-game edge over the Giants. In the future prior, they’d been tied with the Giants for first place — however the Dodgers haven’t been out of the highest spot within the division altogether since April 27.
Yamamoto labored by means of the primary inning, surrendering a leadoff residence run to Zach Neto and strolling a pair earlier than Yoán Moncada added on with an RBI single. The suitable-hander saved the Angels off the board in his subsequent three innings, regardless of issuing one other pair of walks, however issues obtained out of hand within the fifth.
Yamamoto loaded the bases with out recording an out, on back-to-back singles and a hit-by-pitch earlier than giving up a two-run knock to Mike Trout. The Angels plated one other pair of runs on one other base hit from Moncada and a groundout from Gustavo Campero, and Yamamoto’s night got here to an finish when he walked Luis Rengifo with two outs within the fifth.
5 walks matched Yamamoto’s Main League profession excessive, which he set earlier this yr on June 13 towards the Giants. Monday marked the fourth time in 23 begins that he was not capable of full a minimum of 5 innings.
