Four home runs and two ninth-inning gifts from the Dodgers' battery told the story at Dodger Stadium, where the Boston Red Sox outslugged Los Angeles 8-4. A three-homer third inning broke the game open, and Boston never let go of the lead again.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| LAD | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
Wilyer Abreu was at the center of it, going 2-for-4 with a home run, an RBI and a walk to earn game MVP honors. His blast highlighted a third inning that also saw Ceddanne Rafaela and Masataka Yoshida go deep, with Rafaela finishing 2-for-5 with a homer, two runs and an RBI, and Yoshida adding a 2-for-4 night with a homer and two RBIs.
Boston struck first in the opening inning when Yoshida's single brought home Rafaela, and Caleb Durbin followed with a single of his own to score Abreu. Los Angeles answered in the second: Andy Pages' single plated Muncy and T. Hernández to put the Dodgers ahead 3-2. But the tide turned in the third, when Rafaela's homer to left center tied it at 3-3 before Abreu's 431-foot shot to right center put Boston back in front for good at 4-3. Yoshida followed with a homer of his own, and Jarren Duran added another in the sixth to push the lead to 6-3. Boston tacked on insurance in the eighth as Durbin scored on a wild pitch by Wyatt Mills and Andruw Monasterio came around on a passed ball, stretching the margin to 8-4.
Emmet Sheehan lasted just 2.2 innings for Los Angeles, allowing 5 runs on 6 hits with a walk and 4 strikeouts, and took the loss to fall to 4-8 with a 5.29 ERA. Andy Pages' seventh-inning double drove in Muncy to briefly cut the deficit, but the Dodgers' bullpen, which covered 6.1 innings and allowed 3 runs, could not contain Boston's lineup. Jake Bennett worked 5.2 innings for Boston, giving up 3 runs on 6 hits with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts to improve to 7-4 with a 2.90 ERA.
The win extended Boston's winning streak to five games, improving the Red Sox to 60-51. Los Angeles, still first in its division, fell to 69-43 and has now lost three straight. Shohei Ohtani went 1-for-3 with two walks and two strikeouts, reaching third base in the second inning but unable to add to the scoring.