{"id":281494,"date":"2026-04-23T04:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:50:46","slug":"dodgers-fall-3-1-to-san-francisco-giants-after-costly-first-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281494\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Fall 3-1 to San Francisco Giants After Costly First Inning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rough first inning with multiple defensive miscues resulted in a 3-1 loss for the Los Angeles Dodgers to the San Francisco Giants yesterday<\/p>\n<p>A rough first inning for the Los Angeles Dodgers<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000001\" data-name=\"Los Angeles Dodgers\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Los Angeles Dodgers\"><\/a> was the deciding factor in the team\u2019s 3-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000015\" data-name=\"San Francisco Giants\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"San Francisco Giants\"><\/a> yesterday at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10016325\" data-name=\"Yoshinobu Yamamoto\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Yoshinobu Yamamoto\"><\/a> started the game for Los Angeles. On the first batter of the game, Giants shortstop Willy Adames<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10005433\" data-name=\"Willy Adames\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Willy Adames\"><\/a> reached first on an infield single, but advanced to second on a Dodgers shortstop Hyeseong Kim<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10017810\" data-name=\"Hyeseong Kim\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Hyeseong Kim\"><\/a> throwing error.<\/p>\n<p>Second baseman Luis Arraez<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10005493\" data-name=\"Luis Arraez\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Luis Arraez\"><\/a> singled, and third baseman Matt Chapman<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10005661\" data-name=\"Matt Chapman\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Matt Chapman\"><\/a> walked to load the bases with no outs on the first three batters of the game. First baseman Rafael Devers<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10005751\" data-name=\"Rafael Devers\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Rafael Devers\"><\/a> singled, designated hitter Casey Schmitt<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10011511\" data-name=\"Casey Schmitt\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Casey Schmitt\"><\/a> hit a sacrifice fly on a play where center fielder Andy Pages<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10009542\" data-name=\"Andy Pages\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Andy Pages\"><\/a> and left fielder Teoscar Hernandez collided, and right fielder Jung Hoo Lee<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10016353\" data-name=\"Jung Hoo Lee\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Jung Hoo Lee\"><\/a> singled to give the Giants a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The defense behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the first inning <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99a9mAKxjx\">pic.twitter.com\/99a9mAKxjx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Harris (@BlakeHHarris) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlakeHHarris\/status\/2046775149245132933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto rebounded from that first inning, though, as he pitched the next six innings, allowing zero runs and one hit with seven strikeouts, including striking out the side in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, though, the Dodgers\u2019 offense couldn\u2019t get a rally going, having just three hits on the night. Their only run of the game came in the fourth inning when Kim walked with the bases loaded, but the Dodgers didn\u2019t get a big hit to drive in multiple runs.<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Kyle Tucker<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10006868\" data-name=\"Kyle Tucker\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Kyle Tucker\"><\/a>, the Dodgers\u2019 big-name addition this past offseason, went 0-4 during the game with three strikeouts and his OPS dropped to .705.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers play their second game against the Giants tonight at 6:45 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rough first inning with multiple defensive miscues resulted in a 3-1 loss for the Los Angeles Dodgers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[426,85854,11443,1334,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,6130,429],"class_list":{"0":"post-281494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-dodgers","9":"tag-hyeseong-kim","10":"tag-kyle-tucker","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","15":"tag-san-francisco-news","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-headlines","18":"tag-sf-news","19":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","20":"tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281494","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=281494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}