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Dodgers rally to tie the game in 9th, beat Mets in 10th

June 4, 2025

LOS ANGELES — It was a night for restitution at Dodger Stadium, a chance to make up for past sins.

Max Muncy hit two home runs – including one in the ninth inning to tie the score – to make up for his ninth error of the season (tied for the second-most in the majors among all positions) that undermined Clayton Kershaw and helped the New York Mets erase an early Dodgers’ lead.

And Tanner Scott pitched the 10th inning for the second night in a row. He took the loss on Monday night but retired the side in order this time. That allowed the Dodgers to score the game-winning run on Freddie Freeman’s RBI double in the bottom of the 10th and walk off with a 6-5 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.

That gave the Dodgers something to celebrate after watching Clayton Kershaw labor for each of the 14 outs he recorded.

For most of his career, hitters were eager to swing early against Kershaw for fear of the wipe-out stuff they would have to deal with if he got two strikes on them.

Things no longer come as easily for Kershaw. He got two strikes on eight of the first 12 batters he faced but struck out just one. Instead, he gave up costly hits on two-strike pitches and had to throw 58 pitches in the first three innings.

With one out in the first inning, he had Starling Marte down 0-and-2. Marte singled.

After a wild pitch moved Marte into scoring position with two outs, Pete Alonso drove him in with an RBI single on a 1-and-2 slider from Kershaw.

Two innings later, Kershaw threw his fastest pitch of the season so far – a 91.2 mph fastball – on a full count to Juan Soto. Soto crushed it, launching it into the right field seats for a two-run home run.

That all but washed away the 4-1 lead the Dodgers had given Kershaw after the first inning.

Back in the lineup for the first time since last Wednesday, Mookie Betts singled with one out and scored from first base when Freeman doubled into the right-field corner – showing no ill effects from the fractured toe that had sidelined Betts for four games.

Freeman went to third when Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil mishandled the relay throw and then scored on a ground out. Muncy capped the four-run first inning with a two-run home run, his fourth homer in the past four games.

While Muncy’s bat has come to life over the past month, his glove still remains a problem.

With one out in the fifth inning, Kershaw walked Francisco Lindor on four pitches. He got Marte to hit a ground ball right at Muncy but the ball had some odd spin on it and went right through Muncy. Kershaw got Soto to pop out for the second out of the inning, but Alonso lined a slider to the wall in left-center for a game-tying double.

The go-ahead run was a time-release headache for Kershaw. Nimmo bounced a ground ball to Freeman and Kershaw raced Nimmo to first base, grabbing the feed from Freeman on the way. First-base umpire Jansen Visconti called Nimmo out, ending the inning. But the Mets challenged the call and replay review showed Nimmo reaching the bag just before Kershaw. The call was overturned, giving Nimmo a go-ahead RBI infield single and ending Kershaw’s night after 4⅔ innings.

Mets starter Tylor Megill retired 16 of 17 Dodgers batters following Muncy’s home run in the first inning. A two-out double by Andy Pages in the fourth was their only hit until the eighth inning, when Betts followed a walk of Shohei Ohtani with his second single of the night.

A wild pitch advanced Ohtani to third with the tying run. Freeman struck out and, with the infield in, Teoscar Hernandez bounced a grounder to Ronny Mauricio at third base. He threw home and Ohtani was tagged out in a rundown. Smith struck out to end the inning. But Muncy took Huascar Brazoban deep to tie the score in the ninth and Freeman drove in the game-winning run in the 10th.

More to come on this story.

Orange County Register

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