LA Dodgers 10, Toronto 9
When: 7:07 PM ET, Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature:
73°
Umpires:
Home -
Mike Everitt, 1B -
Will Little, 2B -
Paul Emmel, 3B -
Dan Bellino
Attendance:
32158
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Dodgers 10, Blue Jays 9: Adrian Gonzalez launched a three-run homer in the eighth inning as visiting Los Angeles posted its fifth straight win with a stunning comeback against slumping Toronto.
Gonzalez capped the Dodgers' rally from an 8-3 deficit by drilling a pitch from Darren Oliver (3-2) over the center-field wall for a 9-8 lead. Andre Ethier followed two batters later with a solo shot to right, and Los Angeles held on from there to improve to 14-4 in July.
Former Jays reliever Brandon League (4-3) recorded the final two outs of the seventh while Ronald Belisario worked a scoreless eighth. Kenley Jansen allowed J.P. Arencibia's RBI single in the ninth but induced Brett Lawrie to fly out to center with two men aboard to secure his 12th save.
With the game tied 2-2 in the fourth, Mark DeRosa put Toronto ahead with a blast that barely cleared the right-field wall. Jose Bautista padded the lead an inning later with a solo shot to left-center and Jose Reyes added a two-run homer as part of a three-run sixth.
The Dodgers roared back in the seventh, closing to within a pair of runs on an Ethier bases-loaded walk and Mark Ellis' two-run double to left. Reliever Dustin McGowan escaped the jam - making an acrobatic play to force Ethier at home for the final out of the inning - but Oliver couldn't hold the lead as the Jays dropped their sixth in a row.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Toronto starter Todd Redmond scattered three runs on seven hits while fanning six over 5 2/3 innings. Dodgers
counterpart Chris Capuano surrendered five runs
on seven hits over 4 1/3 frames. ... The Blue Jays held a players-only meeting prior to the game that lasted well over an hour. Toronto is 7-18 since reeling off an 11-game winning streak last month. ... Los Angeles has 24 runs and 29 hits through the first two games of the series, which concludes Wednesday night, and extended its road winning streak to nine to match its longest run since July 2004.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Dodgers |
|
Toronto |
Chris Capuano |
Player |
Todd Redmond
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
4.1 |
IP |
5.2 |
2 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
7 |
Hits |
7 |
10.38 |
ERA |
4.76 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
LA Dodgers
|
13 |
3 |
24 |
.325 |
16 |
10 |
10 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
Toronto
|
15 |
3 |
28 |
.366 |
13 |
5 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
0 |