{"id":94613,"date":"2025-08-25T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:11:10","slug":"the-dodgers-get-the-offense-to-salvage-san-diego-series-by-megan-garcia-aug-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94613\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dodgers get the offense to salvage San Diego Series | by Megan Garcia | Aug, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Megan<\/a>Press enter or click to view image in full size\"\"Dalton Rushing\u2019s home run in the seventh helped put the Dodgers ahead on Sunday. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

by Megan Garcia<\/p>\n

A stalled Dodger offense shifted back into drive on Sunday. The Dodgers\u2019 8\u20132 win over the Padres now has them tied again with San Diego for first place in the National League West.<\/p>\n

A five-run seventh inning \u2014 keyed by a three-run home run by Dalton Rushing that broke a 2\u20132 tie and a two-run home run from Freddie Freeman \u2014 helped the Dodgers salvage the series after dropping the first two games.<\/p>\n

Freeman hit two home runs in the game, including a sixth-inning homer that tied the score at 2\u20132.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou saw a different brand of baseball from both sides in the series,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cYou\u2019re trying to win a game, and it\u2019s very hard against the quality of pitching that was thrown in this series on both sides. For us to come out here and execute as an offensive way better than we did the last couple of days, that\u2019s a big boost for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mookie Betts had three hits and Shohei Ohtani hit a solo home run in the ninth inning \u2014 his 45th of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The Padres) certainly had a lot of momentum coming into today. For our guys to find a way to will ourselves to salvage the series and finish in the standings tied is a good thing.\u201d Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers came into the game with only two runs, five hits and two at-bats with runners in scoring position in the first two games of the series.<\/p>\n

They had nine hits on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers loaded the bases in the first inning against San Diego starter Nick Pivetta and nearly got a grand slam off the bat of Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez. Hern\u00e1ndez was robbed of the homer and the Dodgers settled for a run-scoring sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was strong against the Padres in six innings. He allowed two earned runs while striking out six hitters and walking two batters.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers went 9\u20134 against the Padres this regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full sizeDalton Rushing\u2019s home run in the seventh helped put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-94613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}