MLB/ Dodgers rally with 5 runs in 7th and beat Padres 7-2 to clinch 11th NL West title in 12 years

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

September 27,日本代表 評価 2024 at 18:04 JST

• Share
• Tweet list

• Print

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani grounds out while batting during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres on Sept. 26 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

LOS ANGELES--Will Smith hit a tying, two-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers scored three more runs in the seventh to beat the San Diego Padres 7-2 on Thursday night and clinch the NL West title.

The rally was dampened by an apparent injury to All-Star slugger Freddie Freeman, who left the game after awkwardly colliding with Luis Arráez and the first base bag trying to avoid being tagged for the second out of the inning. Freeman grabbed at his lower right leg before hobbling off the field.

The Dodgers (95-64) had not clinched at home since the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, when cardboard cutouts replaced fans. The last time fans were on hand for a clincher at home was 2018.

“I couldn’t be more proud of these guys,” manager Dave Roberts said. “They fought and fought and fought and overcame adversity.”

A sellout crowd of 52,433, including retired Dodgers star Manny Ramirez, packed Dodger Stadium for the finale of the crucial series between the top two teams in the NL West. Both teams had already clinched postseason berths.

The Padres led 2-0 as Joe Musgrove pitched six shutout innings.

But the Dodgers got to him in the seventh. Musgrove gave up a leadoff walk to Max Muncy. Smith followed with a 426-foot blast to center, tying the game at 2-2. It was the Dodgers’ first home run of the three-game series.

Pinch-hitter Kiké Hernández singled and took second when Andy Pages reached on catcher’s interference by Kyle Higashioka. Shohei Ohtani singled and Hernández scored on an error, while Ohtani was safe at second on Fernando Tatis Jr.’s throwing error.

Pages and Ohtani scored on Mookie Betts’ single, making it 5-2.

Pages added a two-run, two-strike, two-out homer in the eighth.

Musgrove and Walker Buehler dueled through four scoreless innings before the Padres struck in the fifth on Arráez’s RBI groundout to first for a 1-0 lead.

Evan Phillips replaced Buehler in the sixth and gave up back-to-back singles to Jurickson Profar and Machado. They moved up on Jackson Merrill’s sacrifice bunt. Profar scored on Xander Bogaerts’ sacrifice fly to center for a 2-0 lead.

Anthony Banda (3-2) got the win with 1 1/3 innings of relief.

Padres reliever Tanner Scott (9-6) took the loss, allowing three runs and three hits in two-thirds of an inning.

Musgrove allowed two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked one.

Buehler gave up one run and five hits in five innings with one strikeout and one walk.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Dodgers: RHP Brusdar Graterol went on IL with right shoulder inflammation. ... SS Miguel Rojas (left groin tightness) had an MRI that showed a torn adductor. He received a shot and will sit out the next couple days. ... LHP Anthony Banda was activated off IL. ... Placed RHP Brent Honeywell Jr. on IL with a cracked right middle fingernail.

UP NEXT

Padres: They had not named a starter for Friday’s series opener at Arizona.

Dodgers: It’s a bullpen game for the series opener Friday at Colorado against Rockies RHP Cal Quantrill (8-10, 4.72 ERA).

• ·「相続探偵」灰江七生役は赤楚衛二！ドラマの脚本はマンガに続き西荻弓絵が担当（コメントあり）
• ·「本人が行きたいなら行ってほしい」メジャー２冠に同行の母　竹田麗央、来年にも米ツアー参戦
• ·石川祐希「重圧は感じずいつも通り入れた」全セット先発１０得点　ペルージャ開幕３―０快勝…バレーボールセリエＡ
• ·【ボートレース】坂本一真、序盤は不発も初勝利期待させるスタート勝負～江戸川ルーキーシリーズ
• ·渇いた文体の根底に流れるのはパンクロックの血　井上先斗さんの原点「甲本ヒロト、真島昌利、忌野清志郎」
• ·MLB/ Padres turn triple play to clinch playoff spot with 4
• ·「ジャンプフェスタ」タイムテーブル解禁　野沢雅子、榎木淳弥ら出演キャストも発表
• ·アニメ「多数欠」第2クールに石谷春貴、梶原岳人、徳井青空ら　メインビジュアル公開
• ·【プチ鹿島の本音】選挙に行かない人へ新視点のアドバイス…「自分との対話」を来年の参院選で試してみて
• ·友野一希の今季のテーマは「羽化」　新シーズン開幕会見で「今が一番成長期」
• ·映画「PUI PUI モルカー」ポテトらが月へ行く予告　相葉雅紀＆大塚明夫の収録風景も（動画あり）
• ·久保建英が今季２点目、「自己採点は７か８。もっと決めていきたい」…日本代表MFの活躍でRソシエダ快勝
• ·ビーム付録に「ファミレス行こ。」クリアカード　三宅乱丈・ピエール手塚らの新連載も（試し読みあり）
• ·「鬼太郎誕生」真生版の来場者特典で、谷田部透湖描き下ろしのビジュアルカード配布
• ·中谷潤人「勝利のキーとなるパンチが３発ある」…ともに１０・１４防衛戦　親友の王者オラスクアガと合同公開練習
• ·久保建英「僕が決めれば負けない」乾超えリーガ日本人最多１６７戦出場で祝砲　不敗神話１７戦継続