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Mookie Betts homers twice and Dodgers go back-to-back twice in 8th inning of 8-2 win over Giants · Best of: Features

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  Mookie Betts homered twice and Dodgers go back to back twice in
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  eighth inning of 8-2 win over Giants. This
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  article is being read by an automated voice, generated by Everlet. Los
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  Angeles, the AP, Mookie Betts Homered twice, and the Los Angeles Dodgers
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  went deep four times in the eighth inning of an eight two
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  victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night. Max Muncie and
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  Kyle Tucker connected back to back to open the eighth. Betts and
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  Will Smith then homered back to back with two outs and a
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  five run inning as the NL West champions rolled in a series
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  opener between old rivals. Tyler Glasno, five one, allowed two runs and
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  three hits in six innings with a season high ten strikeouts. Los
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  Angeles, ninety-four sixty, is two games behind NL Central Champion Milwaukee for
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  the best record in the majors and home field advantage throughout then
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  postseason. The homer run barrage occurred on the twentieth anniversary of the
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  Dodgers famous four plus one game. Jeff Kent J.D. Drew, Russell Martin,
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  and Marlon Anderson hit four consecutive homers in the bottom of the
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  ninth inning, the fourth time in Major League history the feat had
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  been accomplished. Nomar Garcia Para The launched a two run homer in
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  the tenth for an eleven ten victory over San Diego after Los
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  Angeles trailed nine five when Kent came to bat leading off the
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  ninth. Philip Abner gave up all five runs in the eighth, which
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  began with the Dodgers leading three two. He became the second reliever
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  in Giants history to serve up four homers in one inning. The
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  Giants, 64-90, lost their 90th game, their most since 2017 when they
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  dropped 98. Muncie's shot travelled four hundred and twenty feet and Tucker's
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  went four hundred and three feet, both to right center. Betts also
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  homered leading off the game. Shosui DePala, a twenty one year old
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  Dodgers rookie finishing his first week in the major leagues, lined a
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  two out double to right field for the go ahead run in
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  the sixth. He also singled and scored the tying run on Tioscar
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  Hernandez RBI single in the fifth. Edwin Diaz struck out two in
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  a scoreless ninth in his return from the injured list. The Giants
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  tied the game at one on Jung Hoo Lee's leadoff home in
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  the second and went ahead two one on Jonah Cox's RBI single
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  with two outs in the third. Giant starter Cesar Perdomo gave up
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  two Uruns and six hits in four and two thirds innings with
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  one strikeout. Jason Foley, three two, took the loss in relief. Giants
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  first baseman Bryce Eldridge was a late scratch with a head laceration.
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  Up next. The Giants had yet to announce a starter for Saturday
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  against Dodgers LHP Tariq Scuball ten seven two point seven zero ERA.
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  This story corrects the sequence of Dodgers home runs in the second
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  paragraph to show Will Smith hit their fourth homer of the eighth
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  inning. See the AP's full MLB coverage here.