The Dodgers built their lead early and spent the ninth trying to protect it. They got away with it. Los Angeles beat the Mets 4-3 at Citi Field, holding off a two-run eighth inning that pulled New York within one.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| NYM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
Yoshinobu Yamamoto set the tone for the win, working 6.0 innings and allowing just 1 run (1 earned) on 5 hits with 5 strikeouts and 3 walks. He improved to 11-6 on the season with a 2.72 ERA. Brock Stewart closed it out with a scoreless inning of relief, striking out 2 to secure the save, his first of the year.
Los Angeles broke the game open in the third. Kyle Tucker homered to right field on a 392-foot shot to put the Dodgers ahead 1-0, and the lead never changed hands from there. The inning continued as Andy Pages grounded into a fielder's choice that scored Dalton Rushing, and Pages himself came around to score on a passed ball by Francisco Alvarez, making it 3-0. Pages added another RBI in the fifth, singling to right to bring in Teoscar Hernandez and push the margin to 4-0.
Nolan McLean took the loss for New York, allowing 4 runs (2 earned) on 7 hits over 6.0 innings with 7 strikeouts and 2 walks, falling to 7-7. The Mets clawed back late. Bo Bichette singled in Brett Baty during the fifth, and Tyrone Taylor's two-run double in the eighth, scoring Luis Robert and Carson Benge, cut the deficit to 4-3. But New York could push no closer.
The result stretched the Mets' losing streak to three games as they fell to 43-62. The Dodgers, who improved to 67-38 and sit atop their division, extended their winning streak to four. Bichette finished 2-for-5 with an RBI and remains 500 career RBI, sitting 11 shy of the milestone after his latest run production.