NEW YORK — Even Mother Nature is conspiring to test the limits of the Dodgers’ bullpen.
Pitching for the third time in four days, including his first multi-inning outing of the season, Tanner Scott let a three-run lead get away in the ninth inning as the New York Mets rallied to send the game into extra innings. The two teams combined to strand five baserunners without scoring in the 10th, and the Mets left the bases loaded in the 11th.
The Mets loaded them again with one out in the bottom of the 12th inning, but the Dodgers went with a five-man infield and turned a double play to extend the game.
Finally, Teoscar Hernandez led off the 13th inning with an RBI double – the first hit in the extra innings – and the Dodgers scored twice, recovering a 7-5 victory over the Mets early Saturday morning local time.
Scott’s fourth blown save of the season came after the Dodgers took a 5-2 lead into the ninth inning of a game that was interrupted for 98 minutes by rain. Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw pitched two hitless innings but didn’t return to the mound after the extended delay, leaving seven innings (and much more, as it turned out) for the Dodgers’ bullpen – already leading the majors in innings pitched – to cover.
Matt Sauer handled the first three well enough and Ben Casparius was outstanding in his three, retiring nine of the 10 batters he faced, six on strikeouts.
Scott entered in the ninth inning to close it out, but he gave up a leadoff single to Starling Marte and walked Pete Alonso with one out to bring the tying run to the plate. Jeff McNeil sliced a line drive into the right field corner that rattled around long enough for him to reach third and two runs to score.
Tyrone Taylor followed with a game-tying RBI single and Scott was done.
Alex Vesia replaced him and got Francisco Alvarez to fly out but then gave up a single to Brett Baty that put runners at the corners with two outs.
The Mets’ comeback extended a game that stretched both the Citi Field tarp and the rulebook.
Rain stopped play in the third inning and two rare rulings affected the scoring.
Center fielder Taylor and right fielder Juan Soto converged on a Mookie Betts fly ball, each trying to catch it and creating a juggling act. The ball bounced from their gloves to Taylor’s bare hand before he secured it.
Michael Conforto took off from second base as the ball was bouncing between the two – as is the baserunner’s right. The Mets challenged the play, arguing that Conforto had left too soon. But replay – and a quick review of the rulebook confirmed the call.
Both scored on two-out RBI hits from Will Smith and Teoscar Hernandez.
The Mets cut into the lead with a solo home run from Baty in the third inning and a rulebook-aided run in the fourth.
Starling Marte started the inning with a bunt, going to second when Max Muncy’s barehanded attempt ended with a wild throw to first. Marte moved to second on a Soto ground out then tagged up as Hernandez caught Pete Alonso’s fly ball to right field.
Hernandez made a fantastic throw that beat Marte to the plate in what appeared to be an inning-ending double play. But third-base umpire Tripp Gibson waved the play off, reaching into another corner of the rulebook and charging Muncy with obstruction for stepping into Marte’s line of sight, blocking him from seeing Hernandez make the catch.
Muncy (who has made seven errors already this season, six on throws) made up for his mistake with an RBI single in the fifth. Andy Pages followed with another two-out RBI single to stretch the Dodgers’ lead to 5-2.
More to come on this story.
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