“Wow,” Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “What a game.” He’d just witnessed his team erase a three-run deficit to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies on an Adrian Gonzalez walk-off single.
Gonzalez’s hit was preceded by Yasiel Puig, Cody Bellinger and Justin Turner combining for back-to-back-to-back home runs. The ninth-inning home run was Bellinger’s second of the game.
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Turner’s homer came on a pinch-hit appearance, and extended his career-high hitting streak to 15 games. “There was a lot of fight, obviously,” Roberts said of the win.
“Just to see Yasiel stay in the game, not throw away that last at-bat, and obviously with Cody following it up, young kid having a huge night. Gets his first homer, then his first multi-homer game. Mom was going crazy, it was great.
“Same with JT, on a scheduled off day, to get him in there and have a big at-bat against a very good closer. Back-to-back-to-back, then to put together an inning after that was pretty crazy.”
With the win the Dodgers moved over .500 since April 16, when after a loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, they were 7-6. Los Angeles enters play Sunday afternoon riding their first three-game winning streak of the season.
Despite some of his team’s early inconsistency and struggles, Roberts recently said he believed the Dodgers were “in a good spot.” Now with Saturday’s galvanizing win, Roberts believes it could serve as a springboard for the team.
“I don’t know where this is going to take us,” Roberts said. “Sometimes in a season you look back at certain nights and games that you can point to that the team kind of sustained some traction, or gained some traction, or kind of turned things around and really picked it up.
“This might be that day.”
