Andy Pages continued his hot streak with four hits, a home run and a career-high four RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame the early injury departure of starter Tyler Glasnow to earn a 9-2 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Pages delivered an RBI single in a four-run first inning and a two-run homer in a three-run fifth as the Dodgers overcame an early 2-0 deficit to win their second consecutive game after dropping four of five. He had 10 hits in the three-game series.
Glasnow gave up back-to-back home runs to the Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen and Enmanuel Valdez in the first inning, then left the game with right shoulder discomfort after warming up for the second. He also departed his previous start with lower leg cramps.
McCutchen had four hits, while starter Bailey Falter (1-3) gave up seven runs (five earned) on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings for the Pirates, who went 3-3 on a Southern California road trip against the Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels. Falter, an L.A.-area native, pitched twice on the trip and gave up 10 total runs on 13 hits in 8 1/3 innings.
After the Pirates got the jump on Glasnow early, the Dodgers’ offense responded with four runs in the bottom of the first. Four Los Angeles batters into the game, Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single.
Tommy Edman followed with a smash to third base that Ke’Bryan Hayes misplayed for an error down the line that allowed Freeman to score from first base, with Edman moving to third on Hayes’ second error of the play on the throw to home.
Pages, who has multiple hits in four of his last five games, added an RBI single for a 4-2 Dodgers lead.
The Dodgers made it 5-2 in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from Mookie Betts before Teoscar Hernandez made it 6-2 in the fifth with a home run to right center.
Pages hit a two-run homer to center three batters later, his fifth. He added an RBI single in the sixth.
Right-hander Ben Casparius (3-0), who replaced Glasnow in the second inning, struck out five over 3 2/3 scoreless innings. In his Dodgers debut, right-hander Yoendrys Gomez earned the save with three scoreless innings.
–Field Level Media
