Alex Wood turned in a gem and exited with a 3-0 lead, but the Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen failed to protect it, allowing the San Francisco Giants to come away with a walk-off victory in 10 innings. The loss prevented the Dodgers from winning back-to-back games at AT&T Park for the first time since September 2014.
Corey Seager and Justin Turner singled off Johnny Cueto with one out in the bottom of the first, and for Turner it extended his hitting streak to a career-best 12 games. Cueto retired Adrian Gonzalez and Yasmani Grandal to prevent the Dodgers from taking an early lead.
Wood was dominant through his first two innings of work, striking out four of six batters faced. Brandon Belt walked with one out in the bottom of the fourth to end Wood’s perfect game. However, the southpaw promptly retired the next two batters.
Cueto ended a 1-2-3 fifth inning by striking out Cody Bellinger a third time on the night. Bellinger was in the leadoff spot one night after going 1-for-3 with an intentional walk in his MLB debut.
The Dodgers managed to get to Cueto in the sixth, sparked by a Seager leadoff home run that broke a scoreless tie. Turner singled and two batters later Grandal doubled. After Yasiel Puig walked to load the bases, Chase Utley flipped an RBI single — just his second hit of the season — into left field.
Andrew Toles beat out a double play attempt to push across another run. A Drew Stubbs leadoff single in the bottom of the fifth broke up Wood’s no-hitter. Nothing came of it for the Giants, as Wood set down the next three batters faced.
His night came to an end after throwing a season-high 77 pitches over six shutout innings. Wood allowed just the one hit, issued one walk, and had five strikeouts.
Sergio Romo allowed consecutive hits in the bottom of the seventh — a single to Buster Posey and two-run home run to Christian Arroyo. The homer was the first of Arroyo’s career; he collected his first hit against Clayton Kershaw on Tuesday night.
Luis Avilan induced Joe Panik into a groundout, and Pedro Baez then struck out pinch-hitter Gorkys Hernandez to end the inning. Michael Morse crushed a letter-high fastball in his first at-bat of the season for a game-tying, pinch-hit home run off Baez in the eighth.
Ross Stripling erased a leadoff single in the bottom of the ninth by inducing a double play. One groundout later, and the Dodgers and Giants went into extra innings. Turner’s single in the 10th was his third hit of the game.
Grandal nearly gave the Dodgers the lead but his fly ball to left-center field was caught on the warning track to end the inning. Hernandez led off the bottom of the 10th with a base hit and soon after stole second base.
A walk put two on with nobody out, and Nick Hundley’s sacrifice bunt attempt loaded the bases when Gonzalez’s throw to third base was late. Hunter Pence fell behind in the count, 0-2, but battled to work a 10-pitch at-bat that ended in a sacrifice fly to give the Giants a 4-3 walk-off win.
