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Dodgers Highlights: LA Loses a Wild Game on a Wild Pitch

The Dodgers showed fight but lost in the 11th on a wild pitch.
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Dodgers Highlights: LA Loses a Wild Game on a Wild Pitch
Dodgers Highlights: LA Loses a Wild Game on a Wild Pitch

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After a 4 hour and 10 minute rain delay, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Washington Nationals 7-to-6 in 11 innings. LA battle back late to tie the game in the ninth inning before eventually losing the game on a walk off wild pitch.

To open the game, David Peralta singled, and Freddie Freeman doubled. Will Smith struck out. Max Muncy had a sac fly. In the second, Kiké Hernàndez walked, but James Outman hit into a double play. The Dodgers did nothing in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth thanks to a fabulous catch by the Nationals’ center fielder Jacob Young.

Bobby Miller allowed a leadoff triple and a run scored. Despite giving up a single and having a wild pitch, Miller looked great in the second inning. He settled down in the third. He was perfect in the fourth. He was changing speeds well. To open the fifth, Miller walked the batter, stole a base, went to the third on Smith’s error, and scored on a single. A runner scored on a sac fly. Miller pitched a perfect sixth inning. In the seventh, Miller allowed a 2-run homer. 

On 99 pitches, Miller went 7 innings, allowed 5 runs, struck out 8, and walked 2. He also endured that 4-plus hour delay to the start of his outing.

Facing the Nationals’ bullpen, JD Martinez doubled to open the seventh, went to third on a grounder, and scored on Hernàndez’s sac fly. Outman reached on an infield single but was stranded when Kolten Wong struck out. In the eighth, Muncy had a 2-run homer. Martinez had a single and was stranded.

Shelby Miller hurled a perfect eighth.

In the ninth inning, Outman walked, stole second, went to third on a throwing error, and scored on Wong’s single. Peralta walked. The Dodgers left both Outman and Wong.

Brusdar Graterol was hurt by Muncy’s error but could get out of the jam in the ninth.

Amed Rosario walked in the tenth. Hernàndez’s single scored Smith.

Ryan Brasier allowed the tying run but got out of the tenth.

Miguel Rojas bunted Outman to third in the eleventh, but the Dodgers stranded him and Freeman who was intentionally walked.

Gus Varland made a wild pitch that allowed the Nationals to win.

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SARAH MORRIS

Since I was seven, I have been an ardent Dodger fan. My love for the Dodgers fueled me to be my high school baseball statistician for its Junior Varsity and Varsity baseball teams. For seventeen seasons, I was a freelance writer for Major League Baseball Advanced Media writing mainly about the Dodgers. I love writing about the Dodgers and eating.  

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