{"id":409006,"date":"2026-07-23T04:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:13:59","slug":"dalton-rushing-snapped-slump-during-dodgers-win-over-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409006\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Rushing snapped slump during Dodgers’ win over Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHILADELPHIA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers<\/a> catcher Dalton Rushing<\/a> fought to end his skid.<\/p>\n

He held up on a curveball from Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola that clipped the bottom of the strike zone. He fouled off a changeup. And he stayed disciplined as Nola tried to get him to chase a fastball up and two breaking balls in the dirt.<\/p>\n

In a full count, Rushing fouled off another changeup. And then, finally, Nola made a mistake.<\/p>\n

Rushing hammered the grooved fastball to left-center field, just shy of the Citizens Bank Park concourse.<\/p>\n

It was the Dodgers\u2019 first run during a 9-5 win<\/a> and Rushing\u2019s first hit in more than two weeks. Over the course of nine hitless games, he went 0-for-19.<\/p>\n

Rushing has been the Dodgers\u2019 starting catcher since early June, when Will Smith was first sidelined with a neck injury<\/a>. And the Dodgers will continue to rely on him, with Smith out indefinitely.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s embraced the defensive\/pitcher-management side of his job as his top priority. But at his best, Rushing (.812 OPS this season) can impact games on both sides.<\/p>\n

His performance Wednesday was another glimpse of that upside.<\/p>\n

Rushing provided the Dodgers\u2019 first run of the game with a homer in his first at-bat. Then, in his second, he worked a 2-2 count, before roping a curveball up the right-field line for a go-ahead two-run double.<\/p>\n

The Phillies tied up the game in the bottom half of that fifth inning. Dodgers starting pitcher Eric Lauer, who had already given up a two-run home run to Alec Bohm in the first inning, surrendered a solo shot to Bryan De La Cruz to lead off the fifth. Those were the only runs he allowed in 5 \u2153 innings.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, Dodgers veteran third baseman Max Muncy<\/a> delivered a go-ahead solo home run, his second home run in as many games and 20th of the year. That blast was also Muncy\u2019s 229th as a Dodger, moving him into sole possession of No. 5 on the franchise\u2019s all-time list.<\/p>\n

To put the final touches on the Dodgers\u2019 offensive effort, Kyle Tucker hit a sacrifice fly and Tommy Edman hit a bases-clearing triple for a four-run Dodgers rally in the eighth inning. That gave them enough of a cushion to weather a ninth-inning comeback attempt from the Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing fought to end his skid. He held up on a curveball from Phillies right-hander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6129,163943,163941,88967,426,18489,83761,163942,163939,48,52,51,47,50,49,34233,163940,46952,113097,3578,1543],"class_list":["post-409006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bottom","tag-changeup","tag-curveball","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-dodgers","tag-fastball","tag-first-run","tag-full-count","tag-hitless-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-phillies","tag-pitcher-management-side","tag-slump","tag-two-run-home-run","tag-will-smith","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409006","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=409006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}