Emmet Sheehan again was dominant against the San Francisco Giants but seemingly ran out of gas and walked away with a no-decision in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 7-2 win.
When Sheehan last faced the Giants, he fired six no-hit innings for an impressive MLB debut. He followed that up Thursday night by holding them hitless over 4.2 innings.
Sheehan was perfect and had seven strikeouts through three innings of a scoreless game.
The bottom of the third saw the Dodgers take a lead when Chris Taylor hit a leadoff double and later scored on Kiké Hernández’s sacrifice fly.
Sheehan started the fourth with another strikeout but lost his perfect game when Wilmer Flores walked. The Giants remained without a hit, however, as Joc Pederson grounded into an inning-ending double play.
After J.D. Martinez extended the Dodgers’ lead in the bottom of the fourth with his 30th home run of the season, Sheehan worked himself into trouble in the fifth inning.
He retired the first two batters faced, only to then hit Mike Yastrzemski with a pitch and issue consecutive walks that loaded the bases. Alex Vesia began to warm up in earnest but the Dodgers stuck with Sheehan, who issued a third consecutive walk to bring in a run and end his night.
Despite Sheehan exiting on a down note, he became the first MLB pitcher in the Modern Era to log a minimum of four innings without allowing a hit in back-to-back starts against one opponent.
Vesia struck out pinch-hitter J.D. Davis to end the fifth inning but surrendered a game-tying solo home run to Pederson in the sixth. The homer was Pederson’s first off a left-handed pitcher this season.
L.A. quickly pulled back ahead as Will Smith led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a triple as Tyler Fitzgerald had the ball pop out of his glove on an attempt at a diving catch. Yastrzemski then lost track of the number of outs on a relatively shallow fly ball to right field that amounted to a sacrifice fly.
Dodgers benefit from Giants miscues
The Giants continued to help the Dodgers in the bottom of the seventh behind back-to-back wild pitches by Luke Jackson each allowed a run to score.
Freddie Freeman later sparked a rally with a single — tying his career high with 199 hits this season — and promptly stealing second base. Martinez collected his third RBI of the night with a single.
Taylor added an RBI base hit for good measure.
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