Freddie Freeman’s three-run homer highlighted a six-run seventh-inning rally and sparked the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to a 9-0 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday.
Via splitting the four-game collection, Los Angeles (89-61) gained the season collection 5-2 in opposition to the Braves. Atlanta (81-69) fell one recreation at the back of the New York Mets within the race for the overall Nationwide League wild card.
Very similar to the Sunday recreation, when Los Angeles scored seven occasions within the 9th inning of a 9-2 win, the Dodgers broke open a detailed recreation on Monday through scoring 3 runs within the 7th in opposition to reliever Daysbel Hernandez and 3 extra in opposition to Aaron Bummer, who surrendered the house run to Freeman.
Within the large body, Hernandez walked the bases loaded with one out ahead of Bummer took over. Shohei Ohtani grounded to 2nd baseman Whit Merrifield, whose throw to the plate wasn’t in time to retire Rojas. Mookie Betts higher the result in 5-0 with a sacrifice fly, and Teoscar Hernandez’s unmarried drove in some other run.
Freeman then went deep to left on a 3-1 pitch, his twenty second homer of the yr.
Los Angeles’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto made some other just right get started in his go back from a strained rotator cuff that saved him sidelined for just about 3 months. He pitched 4 scoreless innings and allowed 4 hits and two walks whilst hanging out 3. Yamamoto has no longer allowed an earned run in two begins (8 innings) since coming off the injured record.
Yamamoto danced round bother all over his trip. He stranded a runner at 3rd within the first, 2nd and fourth innings and used to be bailed out within the 3rd when fast Michael Harris II used to be thrown out on the plate on a robust relay throw through 2nd baseman Enrique Hernandez on Jorge Soler’s double to middle.
The profitable pitcher used to be Evan Phillips (4-1), who pitched an excellent 5th innings. The Dodgers additionally were given hitless and scoreless appearances from Blake Treinen (6th inning), Daniel Hudson (7th), Brent Honeywell (8th and 9th).
It used to be the thirteenth shutout for Los Angeles this yr and the eleventh time Atlanta used to be blanked.
Braves starter Max Fried (9-10) pitched six innings and allowed 3 runs on two hits and 3 walks with seven strikeouts.
The Dodgers manufactured a run within the 3rd inning. Rojas walked, went to 2nd on a floor ball, stole 2nd and scored on a wild pitch.
Los Angeles added two runs within the 5th. Tommy Edman led off with a ground-rule double and scored on a unmarried through Rojas, who got here house on Ohtani’s infield grounder.
–Box Stage Media
