Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernandez each homered twice and Mookie Betts had three hits as the Los Angeles Dodgers shook off their offensive struggles with a 12-6 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Muncy, in just his second game following a month-long break due to a bone bruise injury from a collision, went 4 for 5 with four RBIs and three runs scored. In his first game back on Monday, Muncy went 0 for 3 with a walk.<\/p>\n
Muncy hit his first home run off Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas 416 feet to right field. In the third inning, he hit his homer 404 feet.<\/p>\n
Hernandez followed with a home run of his own to give the Dodgers their first back-to-back home runs of the season since Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts both homered on May 19th against the Arizona Diamondbacks. <\/p>\n
Hernandez finished the game 4 for 5 with four RBI, two homers, and two runs scored for the NL West-leading Dodgers.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers (66-48) had three extra-base hits in the first inning, matching the total number of hits they had against the Cardinals on Monday. They had 17 hits Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Shohei Ohtani finished with two hits and three runs scored.<\/p>\n
Nolan Gorman hit a two-run homer in the second inning for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
Mikolas (6-9) was chased after three innings after allowing five earned runs. The Cardinals bullpen struggled, too, allowing six earned runs.<\/p>\n
Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan (3-2), who was called up to be part of a six-man rotation that will last at least one more week, allowed four hits and no runs in five innings. He struck out five and walked one.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Muncy and Hernandez hit back-to-back home runs in the third to give the Dodgers a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/strong><\/p>\n Betts doubled in the third to snap a 0 for 22 hitless streak. He finished with three hits and a walk.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (6-9, 3.96 ERA) will face Dodgers RHP Ohtani (0-0, 2.40), who will make his eighth appearance of the season in a day game Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernandez each homered twice and Mookie Betts had three hits as the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-122911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114980400892456161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}