MIAMI (AP) — Rookie Ryan Pepiot pitched a fantastic video game for 6 2/3 innings as Julio Urías’ substitution in the Dodgers’ rotation, and Los Angeles routed the Miami Marlins 10- on Thursday night time for just their second gain seven online games.
Josh Bell grounded a one up the center with two outs in the seventh for the only hit off Pepiot. Caleb Ferguson permitted Garrett Hampson’s leadoff one in the eighth and Evan Phillips finished the two-hitter with a best ninth.
“There’s a minor little bit of disappointment because, naturally, you want to have 1 of those people distinctive times,” Pepiot explained. “But it’s baseball. The male bought on base and strike a great pitch. Nearly anything can transpire in the game.”
Pepiot (3-) was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis right before the video game to choose the position of Urías, who was set on the limited listing adhering to his arrest Sunday in Los Angeles on suspicion of corporal injury on a partner or cohabitant. A 26-yr-previous proper-hander starting off his 3rd stint with the Dodgers this year, Pepiot struck out three and induced nine groundouts, throwing 60 of 84 pitches for strikes.
“It was the fifth inning, no person was chatting to me any more. Then I appeared up and I noticed the zero,” Pepiot explained of when he became informed of the excellent-match bid. “Everyone was sliding by me and then no 1 would sit around me.”
Chris Taylor experienced 5 RBIs that bundled his 15th residence run, a double and a solitary. Miguel Rojas and Will Smith had 3 hits each.
“The way we began the series and how we have played the previous few video games, we uncovered ourselves offensively currently,” Rojas mentioned. “It created it really satisfying.”
Bell’s one aided Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts decide to raise Pepiot.
“I was likely to give him just about every option to end that sport,” Roberts stated. “He’s large. He’s actual physical. I didn’t have trainers telling me to take him out of the match.”
Miami, which experienced won six straight, dropped a half-video game driving Arizona for the NL’s very last wild card, tied with Cincinnati. The Marlins were being shut out for the 11th time.
“That’s why this video game is nuts,” Miami supervisor Skip Schumaker explained. “Just when you assume you have it figured out, it just punches you proper in the mouth.”
Los Angeles pitched its 14th shutout, a person driving Atlanta’s big league-main total.
Marlins starter Braxton Garrett (8-6) authorized just one operate, 3 hits, a few walks and a hit batter in 3 2/3 innings.
Will Smith strike an RBI one in the third, and Taylor singled in a run in a two-operate fifth that involved Kiké Hernández’s operate-scoring double.
Freddie Freeman doubled down the suitable-subject line in the sixth. Th ball bounced into foul territory, in which a ball particular person grabbed it and threw the ball in the stands. Umpires identified Mookie Betts experienced rounded 3rd and allowed him to rating.
Amed Rosario hit a two-run single and Taylor an RBI double.
Taylor additional a three-tun homer in the eighth off Smeltzer.
DEFENSIVE GEMS
Pepiot was aided by his protection. Shortstop Rojas dived and stopped Luis Arraez’s difficult smash and threw out Arraez at initial. Next baseman Rosario also denied Arraez of a strike when he created a leaping capture of his liner in the seventh.
“You really feel pleased hoping to assistance the group any way you can and earning that form of participate in,” Rosario claimed.
FROM THE Courtroom TO THE MOUND
Just lately retired Miami Warmth ahead Udonis Haslem threw the ceremonial initially pitch. The 43-yr-aged played his full 20-calendar year NBA job in Miami.
TRAINER’S Home
Marlins: RHP Sandy Alcantara will vacation with the club on its 7-recreation trip to Philadelphia and Milwaukee following becoming placed on the hurt listing simply because of a appropriate forearm strain Wednesday.
UP Upcoming
Dodgers: RHP Emmet Sheehan (3-1, 5.31) will start out the opener of a a few game sequence at Washington Friday. The Nationals will go with LHP MacKenzie Gore (7-10, 4.28).
Marlins: RHP Eury Pérez (5-4, 2.86) is the scheduled starter of the opener of a a few-video game sequence at Philadelphia, which starts LHP Christopher Sánchez (2-3, 3.48).
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