LA Dodgers 5
St. Louis 1
Monday, May 29, 2017 02:15 PM
(ET)
Surging Dodgers use home runs to beat Cardinals
The Sports Xchange
May 29, 2017
ST. LOUIS -- Home runs and pitching carried the Los Angeles Dodgers to another win Monday.
Belting three long balls and getting five solid innings from starter Rich Hill, Los Angeles dumped the slumping St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 at sold-out Busch Stadium.
Chase Utley, Cody Bellinger and Logan Forsythe each cracked homers for the Dodgers (32-20), which won for the ninth time in 11 games while handing St. Louis (24-24) its ninth loss in 12 contests.
Hill (2-2) gave up two hits and a run in five innings, walking two and fanning four. It was a far cry from his 6-1 loss to the Cardinals on Wednesday night, when he issued a career-high seven walks in four-plus innings and yielded a season-high five runs.
Mike Leake (5-3), who entered the game as the National League leader in ERA at 1.91, allowed six hits and four runs in seven innings with a walk and six strikeouts. It was the first time in 10 starts that Leake didn't produce a quality start of six innings or more and three runs or fewer.
Utley started the scoring in the third, pouncing on a 1-1 mistake pitch over the middle and launching a 424-foot homer to right-center, his third of the year. Prior to that at-bat, Utley was just 4-for-30 in his career against Leake.
Corey Seager's two-out RBI single later in the third plated Yasiel Puig for a 2-0 lead. Bellinger made it 3-0 in the fourth, ripping a 3-0 pitch 429 feet to the seats in right for his 11th homer.
St. Louis scored its only run in the fourth on Jedd Gyorko's sacrifice fly that plated Tommy Pham, but Puig restored a three-run lead in the seventh with a sacrifice fly that scored Chris Taylor.
Forsythe wrapped up the scoring in the eighth, rifling a 430-foot blast over the Los Angeles bullpen in left-center for his first homer of the season.
NOTES: Los Angeles on Monday selected the contract of RHP Brandon Morrow from Triple-A Oklahoma City and placed LHP Alex Wood (left SC joint inflammation) on the 10-day DL, retroactive to May 27. ... St. Louis activated OF Jose Martinez (left groin) from his rehab assignment and optioned OF Randal Grichuk all the way down to Single-A Palm Beach. Grichuk is hitting .222 with four homers and 19 RBI in 46 games, fanning 54 times in 167 at-bats. ... The Dodgers moved RHP Brock Stewart (right shoulder tendinitis) to the 60-day DL to make room for Morrow on the 40-man roster.
May 29, 2017
ST. LOUIS -- Home runs and pitching carried the Los Angeles Dodgers to another win Monday.
Belting three long balls and getting five solid innings from starter Rich Hill, Los Angeles dumped the slumping St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 at sold-out Busch Stadium.
Chase Utley, Cody Bellinger and Logan Forsythe each cracked homers for the Dodgers (32-20), which won for the ninth time in 11 games while handing St. Louis (24-24) its ninth loss in 12 contests.
Hill (2-2) gave up two hits and a run in five innings, walking two and fanning four. It was a far cry from his 6-1 loss to the Cardinals on Wednesday night, when he issued a career-high seven walks in four-plus innings and yielded a season-high five runs.
Mike Leake (5-3), who entered the game as the National League leader in ERA at 1.91, allowed six hits and four runs in seven innings with a walk and six strikeouts. It was the first time in 10 starts that Leake didn't produce a quality start of six innings or more and three runs or fewer.
Utley started the scoring in the third, pouncing on a 1-1 mistake pitch over the middle and launching a 424-foot homer to right-center, his third of the year. Prior to that at-bat, Utley was just 4-for-30 in his career against Leake.
Corey Seager's two-out RBI single later in the third plated Yasiel Puig for a 2-0 lead. Bellinger made it 3-0 in the fourth, ripping a 3-0 pitch 429 feet to the seats in right for his 11th homer.
St. Louis scored its only run in the fourth on Jedd Gyorko's sacrifice fly that plated Tommy Pham, but Puig restored a three-run lead in the seventh with a sacrifice fly that scored Chris Taylor.
Forsythe wrapped up the scoring in the eighth, rifling a 430-foot blast over the Los Angeles bullpen in left-center for his first homer of the season.
NOTES: Los Angeles on Monday selected the contract of RHP Brandon Morrow from Triple-A Oklahoma City and placed LHP Alex Wood (left SC joint inflammation) on the 10-day DL, retroactive to May 27. ... St. Louis activated OF Jose Martinez (left groin) from his rehab assignment and optioned OF Randal Grichuk all the way down to Single-A Palm Beach. Grichuk is hitting .222 with four homers and 19 RBI in 46 games, fanning 54 times in 167 at-bats. ... The Dodgers moved RHP Brock Stewart (right shoulder tendinitis) to the 60-day DL to make room for Morrow on the 40-man roster.
