Freddie Freeman went 4-for-5 with a go-ahead RBI double and three runs to lead the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to a come-from-behind, 7-4 win over the Boston Red Sox in opener of a three-game series on Friday.
Max Muncy had two hits and three RBIs, while Mookie Betts doubled and scored twice in his first game as a visitor in Boston, helping the Dodgers to their third straight win and their 20th of 23 in August games.
Los Angeles starter Lance Lynn (10-9) won despite yielding 10 hits and four runs, three earned, in six-plus innings. He walked one and struck out one.
Evan Phillips notched his 20th save with a scoreless ninth.
Five Red Sox logged multiple hits, including Alex Verdugo and Trevor Story, who both homered.
Verdugo deposited the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning into the bullpen for his second homer in two games.
The Red Sox increased the lead to 3-0 in the second as Story hit a two-run homer into the first section of Green Monster seats. It was Story’s first long ball this season after he missed the first 112 games while rehabbing from elbow surgery.
After allowing a leadoff single in the third, Boston starter Kutter Crawford struck out four straight and five of the next six batters to help him complete five-plus innings of two-run, four-hit ball.
Crawford moved through a 1-2-3 fifth before the visitors struck for three runs in the sixth. A Betts double off the Monster and Freeman’s knock to left started the rally, ending the Boston starter’s day.
With Nick Pivetta (9-7) in, Will Smith’s line double to left got Los Angeles on the board. Muncy’s RBI grounder made it 3-2, and former Red Sox utility man Enrique Hernandez lined a game-tying base hit to center.
The Dodgers took the lead in the seventh when Freeman ripped an RBI double to left-center that rolled toward the warning track. Two batters later, Muncy lined a two-out, two-run double to plate two more for a 6-3 lead.
Lynn departed with no outs and two on in the seventh, and Brusdar Graterol worked out of the jam. He allowed just one run to score, on a Muncy throwing error on Justin Turner’s forceout.
David Peralta’s sacrifice fly gave the Dodgers an insurance run in the ninth.
–Field Level Media
