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Dodgers edge slumping Mets on Kyle Tucker’s RBI single in 8th inning

April 15, 2026

LOS ANGELES — There will certainly be bigger moments ahead for Kyle Tucker in a Dodgers uniform, but he needed this one.

Put on the spot when Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked in the eighth inning of a tie game, Tucker came through with an RBI single, driving in the winning run from second base to give the Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.

The hit is just the sixth in Tucker’s 30 at-bats over the past nine games. But it was enough to settle a pitchers’ duel between Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Nolan McLean – and send the ice-cold Mets to their seventh consecutive defeat.

The Mets have been shut out three times in their past five games and have scored a total of 10 runs during the losing streak, including just one in the first two games of this series at Dodger Stadium.

Justin Wrobleski was the beneficiary of the Mets’ frost on Monday, retiring the first 13 batters in order before allowing the first of two hits he would surrender in eight scoreless innings.

Yamamoto made his lone mistake early. He fell behind 2-and-0 to Mets leadoff man Francisco Lindor then grooved a fastball that Lindor sent into the right field pavilion. The 111.3 mph drive ended a streak of 20 scoreless innings for the Soto-less Mets lineup. (Juan Soto has been out since April 3 with a calf injury.)

That was it. The next 20 Mets went down in order against Yamamoto.

Over 16 innings against Wrobleski and Yamamoto in this series, the Mets managed one run on six hits. They went down in order 11 times, on fewer than 12 pitches nine times.

The Dodgers’ hitters, however, were not having any more success against Mets starter Nolan McLean.

They scratched out their own first-inning run against the 24-year-old right-hander. Kyle Tucker drew a one-out walk and went to third when Will Smith doubled in front of a diving Tommy Pham in left field. Tucker scored when Freddie Freeman dribbled a soft ground ball up the first base line and Mark Vientos fielded it rather than waiting for it to go foul.

And that was it. McLean retired the next 13 Dodgers in order, walked Hyeseong Kim in the fifth inning and didn’t give up another hit until Max Muncy’s two-out single in the seventh.

The Mets finally put a little stress in Yamamoto’s life in the seventh inning. Bo Bichette hooked a two-out double inside the left-field line, ending Yamamoto’s streak of 20 consecutive batters retired. He walked Francisco Alvarez to put two runners on base then struck out Brett Baty to end the momentary difficulties.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sent Yamamoto back out for the eighth despite his pitch count having reached 94. Yamamoto retired the first two batters but gave up back-to-back singles to put runners at the corners. Roberts called on Blake Treinen to face Luis Robert Jr., and Treinen froze him with a called third strike (affirmed by ABS when Robert challenged) to end the threat.

McLean did not go back out for the eighth inning, and the Dodgers put the winning rally together against lefty reliever Brooks Raley.

Miguel Rojas drew a leadoff walk. Pinch-hitter Santiago Espinal bunted him to second base – and the Mets did exactly what you would expect. They intentionally walked Ohtani (extending his on-base streak to 48 games after an 0-for-3 night), preferring to deal with Tucker who has yet to find his footing with the Dodgers.

Tucker fell behind 1-and-2 then sliced a cutter from Raley into left field for the game-winning hit.

Alex Vesia closed it out in the ninth – not Edwin Diaz, who has not pitched since his blown save on Friday.

More to come on this story.

Orange County Register

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