Nicely, this recreation was a multitude. Issues began out about as laughably unhealthy as might be, then the Dodgers supplied some hope earlier than doing nothing a lot the remainder of the sport in a 6-4 loss to the Royals.

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Julio Urias returned from the IL and was instantly greeted with an extended inning that included 5 runs, a bunch of defensive miscues, and unhealthy luck.

A tough double was adopted by a bloop single, then a bloop infield single fell in for a run as a result of Miguel Vargas went to go cowl the bag on a stolen base try. A stroll then loaded the bases, an infield sacrifice fly scored one other run, successful batter re-loaded the bases, one other sacrifice fly scored the third run, and eventually one other bloop single that James Outman acquired a horrible learn on scored the ultimate two of the outing earlier than issues mercifully ended.

He finally managed to get by way of three innings, however clearly issues didn’t go ideally in his begin again towards a woeful Royals staff.

3 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 2 BB, 2 Ok, 66 Pitches

Look, it's not that Urias seems sharp, however lmao. pic.twitter.com/lejldVDAkW

— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) July 2, 2023

On the opposite aspect, the Dodgers did attempt to claw again into the sport. Within the 2nd they acquired a three-spot because of a Jonny Deluca stroll, an Outman single, a Yonny Hernandez double that scored Deluca, a Mookie Betts sacrifice fly to plate Outman, and a Freddie Freeman single to attain Yonny to chop issues to 5-3.

In the meantime, Phil Bickford and Ryan Brasier acquired a pair of innings every, with the latter giving up simply an unearned run on his personal error, which gave the Royals six runs and made it 6-3. Brusdar Graterol acquired the eighth, and that was it for the Royals.

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Sadly, the Dodgers lineup went quiet. They stranded half-chances within the third (first and third with two outs) and fifth (second with two outs), and likewise couldn’t get the job performed after a lead-off double within the seventh.

Their greatest probability got here within the eighth when back-to-back one-out singles from Max Muncy and David Peralta cornered the runners, and an Outman infield single made it 6-4. Later with two outs, Mookie walked to load the bases for Freddie Freeman, however he couldn’t come by way of and that was about all she wrote.

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*Both nonetheless taking part in or will play later.

The rubber match will probably be tomorrow at 8:10 AM HT/11:10 AM PT/2:10 PM ET with Tony Gonsolin going through Brady Singer.