MIAMI — Seven relievers used Monday night (including Ben Casparius in a “bulk” role), five more Tuesday and a “bullpen game” planned for Wednesday – the Dodgers are really padding their MLB lead in relief innings.
They suffered from exposure Tuesday night, losing in 10 innings when a fresh arm – J.P. Feyereisen, called up from Triple-A for the day – gave up an RBI single to Jesus Sanchez in the 10th and the Miami Marlins walked off with a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers.
An intentional walk and a single loaded the bases with no outs in the 10th for the Marlins and the Dodgers tried to stave off defeat by going with a five-man infield. Sanchez slapped a single through the middle of it to drive in the winning run.
Two starts into his return from Tommy John surgery, right-hander Tony Gonsolin has been a shot in the arms for the Dodgers’ rotation. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts held him to five innings and 82 pitches, leaving the rest to the bullpen.
Gonsolin held the Marlins scoreless for the first four innings on Tuesday – with significant help from Andy Pages.
Moved to right field with Teoscar Hernandez sidelined by injury, Pages stole a home run from Marlins catcher Liam Hicks in the third inning, came down on the warning track and fired a 98.5 mph bullet to double Dane Myers off first base and end the inning.
Two innings later, there was nothing Pages could do when Hicks lined a two-run home run over his head and into the seats.
That gave the Marlins a 2-1 lead. But not for long.
Ohtani hit the first pitch of the sixth inning 403 feet into the upper deck in right field for his 10th home run of the season. Ohtani is the first player in MLB this year to reach double figures in home runs and stolen bases.
Freddie Freeman drove in the Dodgers’ first run with an RBI single in the first inning. Two batters after Ohtani’s home run, he got the lead back for the Dodgers with a solo home run of his own.
It was Freeman’s 42nd home run against the Marlins, breaking a tie with Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman for the most by any player against the Marlins’ franchise.
Freeman also has an 11-game hitting streak after another multi-hit game Tuesday. During the streak, he is batting .452 (19 for 42) with three doubles, four home runs and 13 RBIs.
After five innings and 82 pitches from Gonsolin, Roberts called on the most heavily-worked bullpen in MLB (157 innings and counting) yet again. Before going to any of his high-leverage relievers – Alex Vesia, Evan Phillips, Kirby Yates or Tanner Scott – on Tuesday, Roberts tried to get a bridge inning from Luis Garcia.
A non-roster invitee this spring after flopping as a trade-deadline pickup for the Boston Red Sox last season, Garcia has been one of the most frequent responders on the other end of the calls to the bullpen, one of four relievers to appear in at least half of the Dodgers’ first 36 games. He allowed three hits that led to two runs and the Marlins took a 4-3 lead.
For the second inning in a row, Ohtani re-tied the score.
With Hyeseong Kim on first base and one out in the seventh, Ohtani fell behind 0-and-2 but worked the count back full – thanks in part to one fastball on the outside corner that was called a ball by home plate umpire Erich Bacchus.
The seventh pitch of the at-bat was a cutter off the inside corner. Ohtani lined it into right field for a double, Kim flying around to score from first base.
The Marlins were primed to regain the lead when they loaded the bases in the eighth inning for Myers. During last week’s series at Dodger Stadium, Myers came up with the bases loaded against Anthony Banda and hit a pinch-hit grand slam. This time, Banda got him to bounce to Max Muncy, who started a third-to-home-to-first double play.
The Dodgers never advanced their free runner in the top of the 10th inning, leaving it for the Marlins to push across the deciding run in the bottom of the inning.
More to come on this story.
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