LOS ANGELES — This business of defending a championship is not for the faint of heart.
The Dodgers blew a five-run lead in the middle innings and went into a five-inning hibernation before Tommy Edman’s two-run walk-off single retrieved a 7-6 victory over the Miami Marlins in 10 innings on Monday night.
Since starting the season better than any defending World Series champion ever has (8-0), the Dodgers have barely won more than they’ve lost (11-10).
Things were going well through five innings. Dustin May had a three-hit shutout going and the Dodgers had scored in four of the first five innings, pecking away against Marlins starter Edward Cabrera for nine hits and three walks.
Shohei Ohtani led off with a single in the first inning, stole second, moved to third on a flyout then scored on Freddie Freeman’s RBI single.
In the third inning, Max Muncy and Miguel Rojas singled back-to-back and Ohtani walked to load the bases. With the infield in, Mookie Betts singled to left for one run. That was all the Dodgers got as Cabrera dug in to strike out Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez before Will Smith flew out.
Andy Pages singled and stole second in the fourth inning and scored on Rojas’ second hit of the game, a double – his first extra-base hit of the season, producing his first RBI. Ohtani drew the second of his three walks but Betts lined out to strand the two runners.
Marlins manager Clayton McCullough – who received his 2024 World Series ring from the Dodgers before the game – called it a night for Cabrera after he gave up a two-run home run to Teoscar Hernandez in the fifth.
Not getting more out of those third- and fourth-inning situations went from irritating to costly when the night changed in the sixth.
The first three Marlins reached against May, a run scoring on Eric Wagaman’s single. After a fly out, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled May and brought in lefty Anthony Banda to face lefty Kyle Stowers.
But McCullough responded with back-to-back right-handed pinch-hitters Connor Norby and Dane Myers. Norby worked a walk to load the bases and Myers drove a game-tying grand slam into the left field pavilion.
The Marlins took the lead for the first time in the top of the 10th when Jesus Sanchez drove a two-out RBI double into the right-center field gap.
After going 3 for their first 7 with runners in scoring position, the Dodgers went 0 for 6 and had just two hits over the next five innings. But they put two runners on to start the 10th inning. Kiké Hernandez bunted them into scoring position and Edman lined the first pitch he saw into right field, driving both runners home.
More to come on this story.
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