{"id":835859,"date":"2026-09-04T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835859\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:40:09","slug":"teoscar-hernandezs-clutch-double-lifts-dodgers-over-cardinals-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835859\/","title":{"rendered":"Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s clutch double lifts Dodgers over Cardinals 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the ninth inning off Riley O\u2019Brien, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Thursday night to avoid a sweep.<\/p>\n<p>With one out, Tommy Edman singled to left and stole second and Mookie Betts walked, setting up Hern\u00e1ndez who sent a 3-2 pitch into center for the Dodgers\u2019 eighth walk-off win of the season. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien (3-7) blew his sixth save of the season. <\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers were hitless with eight other runners in scoring position before Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s hit. He and Edman, who went 4 for 5 batting leadoff in Shohei Ohtani\u2019s place, were the only players with hits.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-367ff1c1be3a824bb9fe49ab7c11407f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ohtani<\/a> got the night off to rest neck, biceps and knee issues.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals reliever George Soriano loaded the bases with a leadoff walk to Hern\u00e1ndez and consecutive two-out walks to pinch-hitter Max Muncy and Kyle Tucker in the eighth before pinch-hitter Dalton Rushing went down swinging.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis led 2-0 on RBI singles from Joshua B\u00e1ez in the first and Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas in the third off Dodgers starter Tarik Skubal. <\/p>\n<p>Cardinals starter Quinn Mathews allowed four hits, struck out four and walked four.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal gave up two runs and tied his career high with 10 hits while striking out six.<\/p>\n<p>Up next <\/p>\n<p>Cardinals: RHP Kyle Leahy (10-4, 3.13 ERA) starts Friday\u2019s series opener at Colorado against RHP Ryan Feltner (5-9, 5.84).<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers: LHP Blake Snell (2-1, 2.42) starts Friday\u2019s series opener against Washington LHP Jackson Kent (1-2, 5.59).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/See AP%E2%80%99s full MLB coverage here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the ninth inning off Riley O\u2019Brien,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,8974,2356,101536,5630,5629,353946,346423,97373,10006,2323,3963,6747,363,2008,9602,4286,46559,321672,220602,3956,99,7645,1231,4706,4289,8968],"class_list":["post-835859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-california","tag-george-soriano","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jackson-kent","tag-joshua-bez","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-mookie-betts","tag-ramn-uras","tag-riley-obrien","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-tommy-edman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}