Julio Urías and the Los Angeles Dodgers appeared on their way to clinching a series victory and winning road trip, but Justin Turner helped spark a comeback for the Boston Red Sox.
Turner doubled and hit a home run against his former Dodgers teammates, who blew a lead en route to suffering an 8-5 loss.
Prior to Turner’s key hits, Alex Verdugo jumpstarted the Red Sox with a game-tying leadoff home run. Verdugo became the third player in MLB history with a leadoff home run in three consecutive games, and the first to do so in Red Sox franchise history.
The score remained tied until the fourth inning, when the Red Sox failed to complete a double play. Rather than ending the inning, Chris Taylor reached safely and Mookie Betts scored a go-ahead run.
Turner tied the game in the bottom of the fourth with a solo home run that cleared the Green Monster and landed on Lansdowne Street.
Max Muncy put the Dodgers back ahead in the fifth inning with a two-run home run. It gave Muncy 30 home runs for the fourth time in five full seasons with the Dodgers, and he’s among six players in franchise history to hit at least that many in four separate years with the team.
Gil Hodges and Duke Snider are the Dodgers franchise leaders with six seasons of at least 30 home runs.
The Dodgers saw their lead slip away when Turner led off the bottom of the sixth with a double, Rob Refsnyder singled and Adam Duvall hit a three-run home run. Duvall’s go-ahead homer came on an 0-2 pitch, which wound up being a prevailing theme for Urías in the inning.
Reese McGuire added an RBI single after falling in to an 0-2 count, and Urías wound up being charged with six runs over six innings.
Turner added an RBI single off Gus Varland in the bottom of the seventh.
The Dodgers nearly rallied in the eighth inning, which saw Mookie Betts collect his third hit of the game on an RBI single. L.A. went on to load the bases but left them full when Muncy was called out on strikes on a pitch from Chris Martin that was out of the zone.
The Dodgers loaded the bases again in the ninth inning but Betts lined out to deep center field.
Dodgers ejections
Muncy was quickly ejected by home-plate umpire Jordan Baker for throwing his bat and arguing the strike three call, and so too was Dodgers manager Dave Roberts after he came out to separate the two.
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