Tommy Edmans walk-off single lifts Dodgers to win | College News

There are walk-off wins.

And then there are walk-off sighs of aid.

On Monday evening, in a sport they led by 5 runs by 5 innings, the Dodgers skilled the latter, needing Tommy Edman’s two-run single within the backside of the tenth to save the day in a 7-6 victory over the Miami Marlins.

“I was telling the coaches earlier tonight, it just seems like we’re a .500 team given what’s going on [lately],” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned, along with his membership sitting at 19-10 (one sport behind the New York Mets for the best file within the majors) regardless of an 11-10 mark since their 8-0 begin.

“The month of April has been up and down for us,” added infielder Miguel Rojas. “Even though our record is good, we feel like we haven’t really hit the gear that this team can hit.”

On Monday, at the very least, they prevented a stark shift into reverse.

Coming off a needed collection win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, and opening their first of two collection towards the rebuilding Marlins, the Dodgers knew this was a comfortable spot on the schedule. An opportunity to rebuild momentum after their up-and-down play in latest weeks.

“I think this is a stretch where if we play good baseball … we can win a lot of games and put ourselves in a good position for down the road,” Rojas mentioned.

Good baseball and profitable baseball, nonetheless, aren’t at all times the identical.

And on Monday, the Dodgers performed a little of each, roaring out to 5-0 lead earlier than rallying late for his or her third-straight win.

“I think that’s a good thing as far as there’s no complacency with our ballclub,” Roberts mentioned. “All the stuff that we’ve gone through with having the inconsistencies with the offense, some hiccups sometimes with the defense, with the injuries, and still to be where we’re at — I think that that’s a bad sign for the rest of the league.”

Monday, of course, ought to have been a a lot more simple win for the Dodgers.

Shohei Ohtani scored within the first inning after a leadoff single, a steal of second base and an RBI single from Freddie Freeman. Mookie Betts doubled the lead within the third with a bases-loaded hit. Rojas, a former Marlins shortstop, tacked on again within the fourth, roping a double down the left-field line for the loudest of his three hits.

That set the stage for what felt like a game-sealing sequence within the fifth, when Teoscar Hernández adopted Freeman’s leadoff stroll with a sky-high two-run blast to left, making it 5-0 along with his team-leading ninth long ball of the season and fourth within the final 5 video games.

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani steals second base in entrance of Miami Marlins second baseman Otto Lopez during the primary inning Monday.

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“We’re doing things fundamentally really well now offensively,” Roberts mentioned, after the Dodgers recorded their third-straight sport of double-digit hits (they completed with 12) and eighth within the final 12 total (one thing they failed to do as soon as within the season’s first 17 video games)

“Some good things are happening,” Roberts mentioned.

Bad issues, although, are nonetheless taking place.

And within the high of the sixth, they coalesced in a calamitous inning.

Following 5 scoreless frames, Dodgers right-hander Dustin May was chased with one out within the sixth, giving up a run on two singles and a stroll to get the hook after 83 pitches. With two left-handed hitters looming for Miami, Roberts summoned southpaw Anthony Banda from the bullpen. A wise plan in concept, however with a disastrous final result two batters later.

Dodgers pitcher Dustin May delivers during the primary inning Monday towards the Marlins.

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Lacking any constant command, Banda walked his first batter on 5 pitches earlier than falling behind again to pinch-hitting righty Dane Myers. Facing a three-and-one depend, Banda tried to climb the ladder with a 96 mph fastball. Myers, nonetheless, was throughout it, clobbering a no-doubt grand slam to left that shocked Chavez Ravine into silence. Just like that, the rating was 5-5.

“[Dustin is] continuing to want to get better and go deeper in games and I’m going to give him that opportunity,” Roberts mentioned, explaining that May’s damage historical past and inconsistent stuff all through Monday’s begin — he gave up 5 hits and walked three batters whereas recording simply three strikeouts and escaping a couple earlier jams on double-play balls — factored into his choice to go to the bullpen.

“We needed [Banda] to be better,” Roberts added. “Unfortunately tonight, he just wasn’t on it.”

For the following few innings, neither was the Dodgers’ lineup.

Despite getting runners on base in every inning between the sixth and ninth, they couldn’t money in, getting into extras three for 13 with runners in scoring place and stranding 11 on base.

The Marlins (12-16) — whose new supervisor, former Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough, obtained his 2024 World Series championship ring earlier than the sport — made issues worse within the tenth, when Jesús Sánchez’s two-out double off Kirby Yates gave them their first lead.

Yet, ultimately, the Dodgers managed to survive.

Announced because the co-National League Player of the Week pregame, hot-hitting Andy Pages led the underside of the tenth with a stroll. Kiké Hernández superior Pages and computerized runner Michael Conforto to second and third with a sacrifice bunt. Then, after coming off the bench earlier, Edman walked it off with a first-pitch, line-drive, disaster-averting single to proper.

“You’ve got to fight for every win,” Edman mentioned. “We’ve done a good job of it, even though we’ve made some games close. We’ve done a good job pulling out a lot of wins.”