LA Dodgers 8, Cincinnati 5
When: 1:10 PM ET, Sunday, September 19, 2021
Where: Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio
Temperature:
85°
Umpires:
Home -
Ryan Blakney, 1B -
Dan Iassogna, 2B -
John Bacon, 3B -
Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance:
26621
By Field Level Media
Will Smith, Gavin Lux and Corey Seager homered to lead the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-5 win against the Cincinnati Reds in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.
Lux had three hits and drove in three runs, and Seager had two hits and three RBIs for the Dodgers (96-54), who sit one game behind the San Francisco Giants for the National League West lead.
Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw allowed one run and three hits in five innings. Kershaw (10-7) struck out eight and didn't walk a batter while reaching double digits in wins for the 10th time in his major-league career.
TJ Friedl hit his first major-league home run for the Reds (77-73), who fell three games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the second NL wild-card spot. Joey Votto added a pinch-hit homer in the ninth for Cincinnati.
Reds left-hander Wade Miley was lifted after surrendering six runs and nine hits in three innings, matching his shortest outing of the season. Miley (12-7) struck out two and walked one en route to his second straight loss and third this month.
Smith worked a full count off Miley before hitting a solo homer to left with one out in the second inning for a 1-0 lead. It was his 25th blast of the season.
Chris Taylor followed with a single, and Lux then drilled a 2-2 slider over the fence in right-center field for his seventh homer of the season and first since June 11, giving Los Angeles a 3-0 lead.
Albert Pujols walked with one out in the third and came home on a two-run shot by Seager -- his 10th -- for a 5-0 lead. Lux had an RBI single later in the inning to make it 6-0.
The Reds scored on a groundout in the fourth and tacked on another in the sixth on a pinch-hit home run by Friedl to make it 6-2.
Friedl scored on a double by Jonathan India in the eighth, and Nick Castellanos drove in India with a two-out single to cut the deficit to 6-4.
The Dodgers got those runs back in the ninth on a throwing error by shortstop Kyle Farmer and a bases-loaded walk.
Those runs proved big when Votto went deep for the 31st time this season to make it 8-5.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Dodgers |
|
Cincinnati |
Clayton Kershaw |
Player |
Wade Miley
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
5.0 |
IP |
3.0 |
8 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
3 |
Hits |
9 |
1.80 |
ERA |
18.00 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
LA Dodgers
|
12 |
3 |
22 |
.324 |
18 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
Cincinnati
|
8 |
2 |
16 |
.242 |
7 |
14 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
1 |