{"id":174655,"date":"2025-09-28T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:19:07","slug":"kike-hernandez-hits-go-ahead-double-in-9th-to-lift-los-angeles-dodgers-past-seattle-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174655\/","title":{"rendered":"Kik\u00e9 Hernandez hits go-ahead double in 9th to lift Los Angeles Dodgers past Seattle Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Kik\u00e9 Hernandez hit a two-run, go-ahead double in the ninth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> struck out 15 Seattle hitters in a 5-3 victory over the Mariners on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Mariners closer Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz walked Michael Conforto<\/a> and Alex Call<\/a> to lead off the ninth. Both runners advanced on Miguel Rojas<\/a>\u2019 groundout to first scored when Hernandez drove Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s breaking ball down the line in left.<\/p>\n

Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> pitched the ninth for his first save of the season. The Dodgers struck out the final nine Mariners hitters in order.<\/p>\n

Mu\u00f1oz (3-3) took the loss, and Alex Vesia<\/a> (4-2) got the win after a scoreless eighth for Los Angeles. The Dodgers have won five straight.<\/p>\n

Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing<\/a> broke a scoreless tie with a two-run homer in the fifth inning off Seattle starter Logan Gilbert<\/a>, but Jorge Polanco<\/a> put the Mariners ahead with a three-run homer the very next inning off Andrew Heaney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers tied it again in the seventh when Michael Conforto<\/a> scored from third on reliever Logan Evans<\/a>\u2019 wild pitch.<\/p>\n

Conforto led off the inning with a single, advanced to third on a basehit from Hernandez, and then scored when the ball flew past Mariners catcher Harry Ford to the backstop.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Hernandez\u2019 double put the Dodgers in front for good and put a jolt into the sizable contingent of Dodgers fans in attendance.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

The Dodgers extended their winning streak over the Mariners to 11 games. The Mariners last beat the Dodgers on April 19, 2021, at T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw<\/a> (10-2, 3.52) will make the final regular season start of his Hall of Fame caliber career on Sunday against Mariners RHP Bryce Miller<\/a> (4-5, 5.53).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n

Shane Lantz, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Kik\u00e9 Hernandez hit a two-run, go-ahead double in the ninth inning and the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-174655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}