Muncy’s 10th-inning sac fly puts end to Dodgers’ 4-game slide

Los Angeles – Max Muncy lifted a Shelby miller Fastball in the air, then raised his left hand and point upward. His 10th-Inning Sacrify Fly had capped a three-run frame that triggered the Los angeles dodgers‘Fourth Walk-Off Win This Season, A 4-3 Thriller Over the Division Rival Arizona diamondbacks.

It felt slightly bigger than that.

“It was kind of a big game for us,” muncy sa. “We will definitely in a slide.”

The dodgers were cominged off for straight losses at home, their first such losing streak in seven years. And Yoshinobu yamamoto Had responded by delivering seven masterful innings, providing the type of start an injury-riddled pitching staff was clamoring for. As tuesday’s game played out, winning it became incessively more crucial.

It top absorbing a game-tying home from d-backs Catcher Gabriel Moreno In the ninth, then coming back from down Two runs in the bottom of the 10th – by which point dodgers manager dave roberts had exhausted almost all of his options out of the bullpen.

“We needed a win bad,” saad dodgers reliever Tanner scottwho surrendered home runs in the Ninth and 10th innings. “Luckily we have a pretty good lineup, so it saved us.”

What the dodgers needed more than any other, though, was a good start.

Yamamoto touch the mounted after giving up eight runs in 11 innings over his previous Two Outings, Putting a Damper on His Early-Season Dominance. Three members of the dodgers’ Rotation – Roki Sasaki, Tyler Glasnow and Blake SNELL – Resided on the injured list with should injuries. Over the Previous Four Games, the Starters who Essentially Replaced Them had combined for a 9.60 era. A bullpen that has finished high-leverage relievers hart and leads the Majors in Innings in Innings was ill-enveloped to pick up the slack.

With the dodgers desperately needing a deep, effective start, yaamamoto carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning and shut out one of the sport’s most potent offenses. He allowed just three baserunners – Two on Walks, one on a hit – and struck out eight.

The D-backs trailed by only a run in the seventh and threatened. Ketel Mars Led off with a long single. Yamamoto followed by uncorking a wild pitch, then walked more with two outs. But the dodgers kept he in to face the right-handed-hitting Pavin smithAnd Yamamoto Struck Him Out with His 110th Pitch, the most He has put on the united states.

“I just felt, right there in that moment, he was our best option,” Roberts saad of the decision to leave Yamamoto in the Game. “And it’s not about pitch counter, it’s not about Third Time Through – It is about he’s our best option. Inning.

Yamamoto fixed what roberts described as a timing issue with his delivery coming off his last couple of starts. He leaned on his curveball more than he had come but generated at left two swings and misses with four of his pitches. By the end of it, his era had dropped back down to 1.86 Through 10 Starts, Trailing Only Countryman Kodai Senga (1.43) For the National Lead.

“IM Glad because I was able to contribute to today’s win,” Yamamoto saad Through an interpreter. “I like to contain my contribution to the team.”

The dodgers are poised for their fifth straight left when Corbin Carroll Deposited Scott’s 10th-inning Fastball over Dodger Stadium’s Left-Center-Field Fence. But the dodgers cam all the way back in the next half inning.

Tommy EdmanWho was supposed to have the day off of until he was called on to pinch hit in the Eighth, Led with with an opposite-found double on a pitch well outside. With the first base open, the D-backs intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani even though he was reporting the go-ahaede run. After a Mookie betts Fly ball put runners on the corners, ohtani stole second base, prompting an intentional walk of Freddie freeman To load the bases. Will smith Was then hit by a pitch, bring in the tying run. Then muncy ended it with a sacrifice fly to straightaway center field, Giving Him Five Career Walk-Off Plate Appearance.

It marked the third time the dodgers had won a game this season despite trailing by Two or more runs in the ninth inning or later, tied for the Major Lead.

“We put some at-bats together, man,” Roberts Said. “And it was much-kneeded.”