Thomas Saggese hits two home runs as Cardinals beat Dodgers 13-8 at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday
LOS ANGELES — The Thomas Saggese Cardinals Dodgers result was 13-8 at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night. Thomas Saggese hit two home runs as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-8 on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. The Cardinals hit five home runs in the game. Saggese went 2-for-3 with three runs and three RBIs. He also added a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
Michael McGreevy earned the win. Eric Lauer took the loss. First pitch was at 7:10 p.m. PT. A crowd of 44,593 watched the Thomas Saggese Cardinals Dodgers game as St. Louis moved to 69-70 and Los Angeles fell to 82-56.
Thomas Saggese Cardinals Dodgers: two homers on a five-homer night
Saggese’s first home run came in the second inning. It was a 415-foot drive to center field. Ramón Urías had just homered to left-center. The back-to-back shots came with two outs and put the Cardinals ahead 2-0.
Saggese went deep again in the fifth. That ball traveled 382 feet to right-center. He had two outs when he connected. The Associated Press said St. Louis scored its most runs in a game at Dodger Stadium.
Jordan Walker hit a two-run homer in the fourth. Joshua Báez homered in the seventh. The five Cardinals home runs were Urías, Saggese twice, Walker, and Báez.
A five-run third and a major league debut
The Cardinals loaded the bases twice in the third inning. They stretched the lead to 7-0. Iván Herrera hit an RBI single. Leo Bernal then delivered a two-run single in his major league debut.
Saggese followed with a sacrifice fly that scored Báez. Nathan Church reached on an infield single to second. That hit scored Bernal and made it 7-0.
Bernal is a catching prospect. MLB.com reported the Cardinals promoted him as September rosters expanded to 28 players. He is ranked as St. Louis’ No. 7 prospect by MLB Pipeline. The 22-year-old switch-hitter is from Panama. He hit 16 home runs and drove in 77 runs in 101 games at Triple-A Memphis this season, MLB.com said.
The Dodgers answered in the bottom of the third. Mookie Betts hit a three-run double. Los Angeles cut the lead to 7-3.
Walker and Báez keep St. Louis rolling
Walker’s two-run drive in the fourth came off reliever Seth Halvorsen. It made the score 9-3. The Associated Press noted that Walker, the Home Run Derby champion, had hit just five homers in his previous 41 games since the All-Star break.
ESPN’s box score showed Walker finished 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs. Saggese’s second homer in the fifth made it 10-3. Báez added a solo homer in the seventh for an 11-4 lead.
St. Louis scored two more in the eighth. Saggese scored on a wild pitch. José Fermín hit a sacrifice fly. The Cardinals led 13-5 heading into the ninth.
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McGreevy gets the win as the Dodgers chip away
McGreevy (6-9) allowed four earned runs and five hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked two. Lauer (8-7) allowed seven earned runs and eight hits in three innings. Five of those runs came in the third.
Betts finished with two doubles and four RBIs. Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, and Max Muncy went a combined 1-for-7 with three strikeouts, the AP said. Los Angeles dropped to 28-2 this season when scoring at least eight runs.
Kiké Hernández struck out as a pinch hitter in the seventh. He then pitched the ninth. The AP said he was the 148th position player to pitch in the majors this season. The Dodgers scored three times in the ninth but did not catch up.
The game lasted 2 hours and 58 minutes. Each team made one error. St. Louis had 13 hits. Los Angeles had nine. The Cardinals are 35-32 on the road. The Dodgers are 40-27 at home.
What the 13-8 result means for both clubs
St. Louis had lost seven of nine and had been outscored 63-38 in that span, according to the AP. The bats broke through on the first night of a trip to Dodger Stadium. The Cardinals will use a bullpen game Wednesday against Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who entered 12-8 with a 2.56 ERA.
Saggese’s night in the Thomas Saggese Cardinals Dodgers game was simple and loud: two homers, a sacrifice fly, three runs, and three RBIs. Bernal’s first big-league hit drove in two. Walker and Báez added to a five-homer outburst that Los Angeles never fully answered.
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