{"id":279925,"date":"2026-04-22T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:45:24","slug":"offense-takes-the-night-off-as-dodgers-fall-to-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279925\/","title":{"rendered":"Offense takes the night off as Dodgers fall to the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Four games ago, the Dodgers<\/a> were on a pace to win 128 games. They would win the National League West by, what, 20 or 30 games?<\/p>\n

Today, for the first time this season, the Dodgers do not own sole possession of first place in the NL West.<\/p>\n

They are tied for first<\/a> with their rivals: the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone is too concerned about the Padres and what they are doing,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Because the season is not even four weeks old, or because he is convinced the Dodgers have the better team?<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t think we really concern ourselves with anyone, to be quite honest,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the way we should think of things. It\u2019s no disrespect to any team. We\u2019ve got to keep our closet clean and play good baseball, and it\u2019ll take care of itself.\u201d <\/p>\n

On a cold and intermittently rainy night in San Francisco, the Dodgers\u2019 bats were cold, and most productive when not used. In a 3-1 loss<\/a> to the Giants, the Dodgers scored their only run by bunching four walks in one hitless inning.<\/p>\n

In the first inning, the Giants tagged Yoshinobu Yamamoto for three runs before he had recorded the second out. Yamamoto righted himself by retiring the next 11 batters he faced, but the Dodgers lost for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n

The shine on the Dodgers\u2019 most historic rivalry has faded, right along with the Giants. San Francisco has posted one winning record in the last nine seasons, and the chants of \u201cLet\u2019s Go Dodgers!\u201d at Oracle Park were more spirited than the chants of \u201cBeat L.A.!\u201d until the last couple of innings.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers collected three hits, never more than one in an inning. They had a prime chance to score in the seventh, when Alex Freeland walked and Shohei Ohtani singled to put the would-be tying runs on base with two out.<\/p>\n

Kyle Tucker then struck out, for the third consecutive at-bat.<\/p>\n

In 28 at-bats this season with runners in scoring position, Tucker is batting .214, with no extra-base hits.<\/p>\n

The single did extend Ohtani\u2019s on-base streak to 53 games, tying Shawn Green for the longest in Los Angeles Dodgers history. The franchise record: 58, by Hall of Famer Duke Snider for the 1954 Brooklyn Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto finished his evening\u2019s work by striking out the side. He completed seven innings for the second consecutive start, something he did not accomplish until September last season.<\/p>\n

He was succeeded on the mound by Tanner Scott, whom Roberts had said before the game<\/a> might be the first choice in a save situation. In this situation, with the heart of the Giants\u2019 order due up in the eighth inning and two left-handed hitters included, Roberts summoned the left-handed Scott.<\/p>\n

Scott worked a scoreless inning, lowering his earned-run average to 0.93.<\/p>\n

The first inning was ugly. The first batter singled, then advanced to second base on a throwing error by shortstop Hyeseong Kim. The second batter singled, the third batter walked, and the fourth batter singled home a run.<\/p>\n

Casey Schmitt then hit a very catchable fly ball to left-center field, where left fielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez and center fielder Alex Call tried to catch it. Call did, but he slammed into Hernandez and tumbled to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ball can\u2019t fall,\u201d Call said. \u201cAs the center fielder, I was trying to go get the ball. He said he was calling it. I didn\u2019t hear him. I started calling it. He didn\u2019t hear me. That\u2019s just kind of the way it goes. It\u2019s unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Yoshinobu <\/p>\n

Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a shaky first inning but pitched well after that.<\/p>\n

(Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Call did get up in time to return the ball to the infield, but the Giants scored a run on what was scored as a sacrifice fly, then another run on a dying fly ball that dropped just in front of Tucker for a single.<\/p>\n

That put the Giants up 3-0 with one out, marking the first time in five starts this season that Yamamoto had given up more than two runs in a game. The next two outs were long outs, one to the warning track and one almost as far, balls that might have carried for extra-base hits on a warmer night. After throwing 26 pitches in that first inning, Yamamoto threw 28 over the next three.<\/p>\n

In all, Yamamoto gave up six hits over seven innings, striking out seven. All of his first five starts have been quality starts; no other major league pitcher has more than four.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers lost, but they have a fresh bullpen for the next game because Yamamoto persevered and the Dodgers used one reliever and the Giants used five.<\/p>\n

All of Yamamoto\u2019s first five starts have been quality starts; no other major league pitcher has more than four.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat,\u201d Roberts said, \u201cis why he is a staff ace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Four games ago, the Dodgers were on a pace to win 128 games. They would win the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[426,10254,9831,423,10897,4468,11443,48,52,51,120539,47,50,49,1869,2668,278,422,428,687,429],"class_list":["post-279925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dodgers","tag-first-inning","tag-first-time","tag-game","tag-giants","tag-inning","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-left-handed-scott","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-night","tag-run","tag-season","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-start","tag-walk","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}