SAN FRANCISCO – The Dodgers held a pair of Sweet 16s on Saturday and toasted to tie for first place again in NL West.
Trea Turner’s 16th day of running left the Dodgers up and Julio Urías got eight attacks and placed in the sixth inning for his 16th win in the Seniors victory in a 6-1 win over the Giants against a crowd of exhausted in Oracle. Park on Saturday night.
This creates a huge showdown on Sunday in the final showdown of the season between the two playoff contenders that will leave a team with the first division missing 25 games.
Turner, whose pitching error in the 11th inning allowed the winning run to score Friday in San Francisco, made up for the gaffe when he punched the sixth shot from Giants opening Jay Jackson in the center immediately and extended his streak of hits in 11 games. Austin Slater jumped on the ball but crashed into the fence and came out empty as Turner rounded the bases.
After Jackson issued consecutive outings to Mookie Betts and Justin Turner, Corey Seager hit a sacrifice fly and AJ Pollock followed with a double RBI.
The Dodgers went up 4-1 in the sixth by mistake, wild tone and rebound. Seager scored against Sammy Long in the ninth.
A day after using all the available liberators he had, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was able to rest most of his bullpen thanks to Urías ’strong start.
Urías has not surpassed the sixth inning in any of his last seven starts, but has thrown 96 pitches and got his seventh straight win to improve to 16-3. The left-hander allowed eight hits in 5 innings and 2/3, didn’t walk any high schoolers and threw himself into traffic much of the night.
Uriah hit Brandon Belt with two to finish the first, got Evan Longoria missing with a runner second in the third, Tommy La Stella withdrew in a pop-up popup with two in the fourth, and got Slater and Longoria down for finish fifth with a runner in second.