Utley, Seager and Turner went retired in order in the bottom of the fourth, as Cueto keeping his perfect game intact. Kazmir ran into more trouble in the fifth, with Panik’s single, a Posey walk and Pence single loading the bases with no outs.
Belt’s RBI base hit to left field extended the Giants’ lead to 3-0, and knocked Kazmir out of the game. Adam Liberatore induced a double play ball and struck out Cueto to limit the damage to only one more run across.
Yasmani Grandal ended Cueto’s perfect game with a one-out rocket double to right-center field in the bottom of the fifth. However, it didn’t amount to anything as Hernandez was called out on strikes and Joc Pederson hit a broken-bat grounder.
Liberatore remained in the game for the sixth and matched his longest Major-League relief appearance by completing a second inning of work. Aside from a two-out walk issued to Utley, Cueto easily got through the bottom of the sixth to keep the Giants lead at 4-0.
Yimi Garcia entered in the seventh and worked around hitting Pence with a pitch to complete a scoreless inning. Cueto gave up a leadoff double to Turner in the bottom of the seventh, and Turner was then moved to third base on Gonzalez’s groundout.
Hernandez followed a Grandal walk with an RBI single to get the Dodgers on the board. Pederson struck out swinging and Trayce Thompson grounded out to end the inning with the Dodgers trailing, 4-1.
Cueto struck out pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson to open the bottom of the eighth, then gave way to Javier Lopez. The left-hander walked pinch-hitter A.J. Ellis, then gave up a two-run home run to Seager. Grandal led off the bottom of the ninth with a double, but Santiago Casilla shut the door to convert the save in the Giants’ 4-3 win.
