Tyler Glasnow Throws Eight Scoreless Innings To Help Dodgers Salvage Finale Vs. Giants

SAN FRANCISCO — The Dodgers tout Yoshinobu Yamamoto arsenic a Cy Young grant contender, and each 1 of his starts has been a value start, including the 1 he made present Tuesday.

The Dodgers talk up Shohei Ohtani arsenic a Cy Young grant contender, and Ohtani has fixed up 1 tally each season. He sounded six shutout innings present Wednesday.

But nan pitcher who delivered nan champion commencement of this bid against nan San Francisco Giants, and nan 1 that stood gangly betwixt nan Giants and what would person been a humiliating sweep, was Tyler Glasnow.

Glasnow stopped nan Giants acold complete 8 innings, allowing 1 deed — a azygous — and facing 1 batter complete nan minimum.

He has made 133 awesome convention starts and 130 insignificant convention starts, but he ne'er has sounded a complete game. This could person been his chance, but nan Dodgers decided a season-high 105 pitches from an oft-injured pitcher was capable for this afternoon.

Tanner Scott sewage nan first prevention business since nan Dodgers mislaid person Edwin Diaz to elbow surgery, and past year’s fallen person redeemed himself for a day. He worked a cleanable ninth inning for nan first of what mightiness beryllium rather a fewer saves this season.

In 10-⅔ innings this season, Scott has fixed up 1 tally and 1 walk, pinch 9 strikeouts. His earned-run mean is 0.84.

The Dodgers concluded a 3-4 travel to Colorado and San Francisco, nan teams projected to decorativeness successful nan bottommost 2 spots successful nan National League West. Up next: nan Chicago Cubs, winners of 9 consecutive games.

Shohei Ohtani went hitless again, but Dalton Rushing singled location 1 tally successful nan 2nd inning and Hyeseong Kim singled location different successful nan fourth. The Dodgers besides scored connected an correction successful nan fourth.

Kyle Tucker, whose mean had fallen to .233 entering play Thursday, ignited nan two-run rally successful nan 4th pinch a double and delivered his first two-hit crippled in

17 days.

On nan time aft he said he had nary reply to explicate Tucker’s struggles, head Dave Roberts tried a remedy. Roberts flipped Tucker pinch Freddie Freeman successful nan batting order, moving Freeman up to 2nd and dropping Tucker to 4th and saying Freeman and Tucker would stay successful those spots “for nan foreseeable future.”

Said Roberts: “I decidedly expect him to travel retired of it and hit, get connected guidelines and do what he’s done for galore years. I conscionable wanted to alteration it up, and felt for illustration it was time.”

The Dodgers did not time off municipality without a hint of bad humor betwixt them and their accepted rivals. On Tuesday, cameras caught Rushing muttering thing aft looking backmost astatine nan Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee, who was successful discomfort aft an awkward descent astatine location plate. Rushing had tagged retired Lee and was headed backmost to nan dugout erstwhile he turned backmost to spot Lee connected nan ground, past kept going.

Rushing did not play Wednesday. On Thursday, successful his 3rd sheet appearance, Rushing was deed by a transportation from San Francisco starter Logan Webb.

Rushing did not look pleased. When nan pursuing batter, Hyeseong Kim, grounded to 2nd base, Rushing threw up his hands and slid distant from nan guidelines to effort and forestall shortstop Willy Adames from completing nan double play.

The second-base umpire pointed astatine Rushing and awarded nan Giants pinch nan double play. The first-base umpire ruled nan Giants had completed nan double play anyway, since Adames’ propulsion hit Kim to first base.