Major League Baseball
LA Dodgers 8, Detroit 3
When: 10:10 PM ET, Monday, September 18, 2023
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Temperature: 69°
Umpires: Home - Mark Ripperger, 1B - David Arrieta, 2B - Daniel Bellino, 3B - Shane Livensparger
Attendance: 37239

J.D. Martinez homered twice among his three hits and drove in five runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened their final homestand of the regular season with an 8-3 victory Monday against the Detroit Tigers.

Miguel Rojas added a home run for the Dodgers, who clinched the National League West title Saturday. They won their fourth game in a row.

Los Angeles (92-57) is 3 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the chase for the best record in the NL, with the Braves holding the tiebreaker.

Lance Lynn (12-11), who is expected to be one of the Dodgers' top three starters heading into the postseason, allowed three runs -- all on a fifth-inning home run by Jake Rogers, in five innings. He gave up six hits and two walks while striking out six.

Lynn has served up a major-league-leading 42 homers this year.

Four Dodgers relievers followed with one perfect inning apiece.

Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (11-9) gave up five runs in three-plus innings for the Tigers (70-80), who saw their four-game winning streak end. He departed in the fourth with an undisclosed injury, having yielded five hits and a walk with one strikeout.

The Dodgers had a deal in place just before the trade deadline to acquire Rodriguez from the Tigers, but he used his no-trade rights to nix the move.

Detroit's Miguel Cabrera singled in the fifth inning to give him 3,166 hits, tying him with Adrian Beltre for 17th all-time, according to baseball-reference.com.

The Tigers fell to 3-1 at the start of a 10-game California road trip.

Martinez gave the Dodgers a 1-0 lead in the second inning when he lined a home run over the wall in right-center off Rodriguez.

The Dodgers loaded the bases in the third inning before Will Smith turned a 12-pitch at-bat into a sacrifice fly to right field for a 2-0 advantage. Martinez followed with his second home run of the game for a 5-1 lead, his 28th of the season and fourth multi-homer game of the year.

Rogers got the Tigers within 5-3 in the fifth inning with his 20th home run, his fourth in his past three games.

The Dodgers received a sacrifice fly from Enrique Hernandez in the sixth inning and Rojas' home run in the seventh, his fifth of the season, for a 7-3 lead. Martinez added an RBI single in the seventh.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   LA Dodgers
Eduardo Rodriguez Player Lance Lynn
Loss W/L Win
3.0 IP 5.0
1 Strikeouts 6
5 Hits 6
15.00 ERA 5.40
Hitting
Detroit   LA Dodgers
Kerry Carpenter Player J.D. Martinez
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 5
0 HR 2
3 TB 9
.667 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 6 1 10 .182 11 13 3 2 0 0
LA Dodgers 9 3 18 .290 5 7 8 3 1 0