The Dodgers get a walk-off win over Minnesota in extra innings
Los Angeles Dodgers #25 Trayce Thompson (DH) at bat in the bottom of the 12th inning. Photo by Jerry Kelly/TGSportstv1.
LOS ANGELES, CA - Trayce Thompson was facing a 3-2 count with the bases loaded and two outs in the 12th inning when he drew a walk, and Chris Taylor scored to give the Dodgers a 9-8 walk-off win over Minnesota in extra innings on Monday at Dodger Stadium.
"I'm not looking to just take a pitch right there. If he throws a pitch right down the middle, and I am not aggressive, it's tough to sleep at night," Thompson said. "You have to take your two-strike approach and try to battle anything close. If it's not there. it's not there.
Dodgers pitcher Phil Bickford threw a career-high 48 pitches in three innings to keep the Dodgers alive into the 12th inning.
"When I first went out there, I didn't have the pitches I wanted to make and found a spot to snap out of it and get in the moment," Bickford said. "All that was in the past, and I moved forward."
Los Angeles Dodgers #13 Max Muncy (3B) solo home run in the bottom of the first inning. Photo by Jerry Kelly/TGSportsv1.
The Dodgers got on the board in the bottom of the first inning after Freddie Freeman singled, and Will Smith hit a two-run home run on the first pitch to give Los Angeles a 2-0 lead. Max Muncy followed with a 390-foot home run to right field, and Los Angeles took a 3-0 lead.
Minnesota's second baseman Jorge Polanco reached base on an infield single. After Polanco stole second base, Kyle Farmer singled to score Polanco and cut into the Dodgers' lead to 3-1 in the top of the second inning.
Smith got on base with a single. Muncy stepped up to the plate and hit his second home run of the game to give the Dodgers a 5-1 lead in the bottom of the third inning.
Polanco hit a solo home run in the top of the fourth inning to trim the Dodgers' lead to 5-2.
In the top of the seventh inning, Christian Vazquez scored on a wild pitch to cut the lead to 5-3. Freeman hit an RBI double to left field, and the Dodgers took a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Minnesota left fielder Trevor Larnach hit a three-run home run to tie the game 6-6 in the top of the eighth inning.
Los Angeles regained the lead 7-6 on David Peralta's RBI double to right field in the bottom of the eighth inning.
The Twins came back to tie it 7-7 when Byron Buxton hit an RBI double to left-center field in the top of the ninth inning.
Minnesota took its first lead of the game, 8-7, in the 10th inning after Vazquez walked with bases loaded. J.D. Martinez tied it 8-8 in the bottom of the 10th inning on an RBI single.