The Dodgers made up for their loss against the Colorado Rockies on Monday, as they combined for 18 hits in an 11-4 victory on Tuesday.
Austin Gomber was one strike away from completing a perfect first inning of work, but Will Smith took three straight pitches out of the zone to give the Dodgers some breathing room with two outs. Freddie Freeman made Gomber pay for his mistake with an RBI double to the left center field gap, and Teoscar Hernández plated Freeman on an RBI double of his own to make it 2-0
in the first inning.
Alex Call entered Tuesday’s contest hitting just .174 over his first 13 games as a Dodger with a double and zero RBI. He got a first pitch fastball above the knees from Gomber and sent it 453 feet deep to left field to give him his first home run in a Dodger uniform. Call’s home run is now the furthest home run hit by a Dodger this season, surpassing Shohei Ohtani.
Speaking of Ohtani, he clobbered a line drive home run over the high right center field fence, tying Kyle Schwarber for the National League lead with his 44th home run of the season.
Freeman and Hernández each recorded singles against Gomber in the top of the third inning, setting the table for the bottom of the lineup with two outs. Call followed up his home run with an RBI single, with Miguel Rojas and Buddy Kennedy following suit to push the Dodger lead to five. Rojas’ single gave him his first RBI since July 19, and Kennedy’s was his first hit and RBI in a Dodger uniform. The Dodgers made Gomber toss 75 pitches over three innings of work, and he was relieved by Anthony Molina to begin the fourth inning.
Emmet Sheehan continued the trend of Dodgers’ starting pitching tossing at least six innings, as he tossed a season-high six innings. Although he allowed a pair of home runs, including Kyle Karros’ first career home run, he finished with a season-high seven strikeouts, with his 91 pitches tying last week’s total against the Angels for the most in any start this season.
Call later doubled and singled against Molina in the fifth and seventh innings to give him his second career four-hit game. He struck out in his final trip against Nick Anderson, finishing just a triple shy of a cycle, but raised his batting average to .286 with the Dodgers across 28 at-bats.
Will Smith had been slumping in the month of August, batting just .132 in 12 games. Smith finished with three hits in the game, marking his first three-hit game since June 17 against San Diego, raising his batting average to .308 and his batting average in August to .191.
It is the first time the Dodger scored double digits since Aug. 5 against the St. Louis Cardinals, where they teed off for 12 runs. Every single starter in the Dodgers lineup recorded at least one hit, marking the first time that every starter recorded a hit since June 9 of last season against the New York Yankees.
Game particulars
- Home runs— Alex Call (4), Shohei Ohtani (44); Brenton Doyle (12), Kyle Karros (1)
- WP— Emmet Sheehan (4-2): 6 IP, 6 hits, 4 earned runs, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts
- LP— Austin Gomber (0-7): 3 IP, 9 hits, 7 earned runs, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
Up next
The Dodgers look to make it two straight wins against the Rockies and eight wins on the season overall against them (5:40 p.m. PT, SportsNet LA). Shohei Ohtani makes his 10th start of the season against right-hander Tanner Gordon.
