Tarik Skubal\u00a0struck out 11 to earn his first win as a Dodger,\u00a0Kyle Tucker\u00a0singled in the tying and go-ahead runs in the fifth inning, and Los Angeles rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The NL West leaders won their fifth in a row and ninth in 12 games with their 37th comeback win of the season.<\/p>\n
After a rough first inning in which he trailed 3-0, Skubal (8-7) settled down and retired 20 of his final 23 batters. The left-hander allowed three runs and five hits in seven innings with one walk. His strikeouts were one off his season high and two off his career best.<\/p>\n
Tanner Scott retired the side in the ninth to earn his 19th save.<\/p>\n
Skubal was 0-2 with a 3.18 ERA in his first three starts with the Dodgers, who acquired the two-time Cy Young Award winner in a blockbuster deal with the Detroit Tigers ahead of the trade deadline earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Tucker snapped an 0 for 25 skid at home with his two-run RBI to right, giving the Dodgers their first lead, 4-3. Mookie Betts got hit by reliever Yohan Ram\u00edrez to open the inning and Max Muncy followed with a double to set up Tucker, who again received encouraging applause from the sellout crowd of 53,417.<\/p>\n
The Pirates had the tying run on third in the eighth after Esmerlyn Valdez doubled off reliever Evan Phillips. Pinch-runner Billy Cook took third on a passed ball by catcher Ben Rortvedt. Jack Dreyer came in and got Cruz on a called third strike to end the threat.<\/p>\n
Yohan Ramirez (6-4) took the loss in relief.<\/p>\n
After three hitless innings, the Dodgers finally got to Pirates starter Jared Jones in the fourth. Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez and newly called up Alek Thomas had back-to-back RBI singles that pulled them within 3-2.<\/p>\n
The Pirates jumped on Skubal in the first, taking a 3-0 lead. Oneil Cruz had a two-run triple \u2014 his first of the season \u2014 to right and Rafael Flores Jr. followed with an RBI groundout to second.<\/p>\n
Jones gave up two runs and three hits in four innings while striking out five and walking five.<\/p>\n
Pirates reliever Camilo Doval pitched one inning of scoreless relief in the sixth before being ejected.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Pirates had yet to announce a starter for Sunday’s series finale against Dodgers LHP Blake Snell (1-1, 3.60).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal\u00a0struck out 11 to earn his first win as a Dodger,\u00a0Kyle Tucker\u00a0singled in the tying and go-ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,53,50,49],"class_list":["post-440970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440970","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=440970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}