He secured the final out when Murphy grounded out to short and the Dodgers win it. Then he allowed three runs in the top of the ninth, which included two doubles, two sacrifice flies, and a single. The potential long man tossed a scoreless top of the eighth, including getting Escobar to ground into an inning ending double play.
Then he settled down and retired the side in order. Garcia’s first pitch was a home run to Christian Walker. Yimi Garcia, and Brock Stewart) were called into the game to get some low leverage outs. So with the Dodgers up by ten runs, the dredges of the pitching staff, (I.E. Later in the inning he would score on a Max Muncy grounder. Joc Pederson, (the star of the game with a 3 for 5 2 HRs 4 RBI performance) collected the first hit of 2019 with a double to left over David Peralta’s head.
The Dodgers started out by scoring one run in the bottom of the first, two more in the second and four in the fourth, eventually chasing Greinke from the game in that fourth frame. Wasn’t it wonderful that it came against Greinke? This was constant fireworks throughout the day. Greinke gave up five homers in his 3.2 innings, which brings the total up to 19 for this current Dodger group. It’s important to note that the Dodgers had hit 14 home runs against Greinke previously. Ryu dominated for the majority of the day, while Greinke got lit up like a Christmas tree. With Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill both opening the year on the injured list, the Dodgers turned to Ryu and he was fantastic. The pitching match-up pitted old frenemy Zack Greinke against southpaw Hyun-jin Ryu. There was ten home runs hit overall in the game with the Snakes hitting two ( Adam Jones, Christian Walker) solo shots later in the game. The game couldn’t have gone any better as six different Dodgers ( Joc Pederson, Enrique Hernandez, Corey Seager, Austin Barnes, Cody Bellinger, and Max Muncy) hit home runs. The Dodgers set a major league record by blasting 8 home runs in their 12-5 opening day bludgeoning of the Arizona Dbacks at Dodger Stadium on Thursday afternoon. As Joe Davis put it, the Dodger’s 2019 is off to a roaring start.
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