SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 30: Los Angeles Dodgers players Chris Taylor #3, Enrique Hernandez #14 and Alex Verdugo #27 celebrate after a win against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on April 30, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images) The Los Angeles Dodgers easily defeated the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night and are now looking for the series win on Wednesday. It did not look all that promising for the Los Angeles Dodgers early on in the game on Tuesday night. Opposing pitcher Drew Pomeranz is someone that has pitched very well against the Dodgers and the Boys in Blue had to cut a deficit early on. David Freese then slugged a three-run home run in the top of the fourth inning that barely got over the right-field wall and that ended up being just the beginning for an offensive explosion by the Dodgers. Los Angeles followed the three runs in the fourth inning with six runs in the sixth inning. Justin Turner then added another run in the seventh inning on his first home run of the season and the Dodgers were easily able to walk away with the 10-3 win. This series is now looking much more optimistic as the Dodgers are starting a series win right in the face after losing the first game of the series in frustrating fashion. The Dodgers have the momentum and will be turning to Hyun-Jin Ryu on Wednesday. Staring the Dodgers down is someone they are all-too-familiar with, Madison Bumgarner. Bumgarner has not been entirely himself to start the year though, as he has a 1-4 record with a 4.30 ERA. Bumgarner allowed five runs in six innings in his last outing against the Los Angeles Dodgers. As part of our daily Los Angeles Dodgers Beat the Streak series, here is who we think is going to supply the firepower against Bumgarner on Wednesday night to hopefully lead to a Dodgers’ victory. Jason’s pick (Current streak: 3): Enrique Hernandez C’mon. There literally is not a single person on this team that I should pick to get a hit off of Madison Bumgarner than Enrique Hernandez. For years now, Hernandez has absolutely dominated Bumgarner in the head-to-head matchups and every single time Bumgarner is taking the mound I go with Hernandez. I am pretty sure that Hernandez has not failed me in the two years that we have been doing this series. Hernandez has 21 hits off of Bumgarner in 42 at-bats. Of those 21 hits, Hernandez has five doubles, four home runs and nine RBIs. Every Dodger fan knows how good Hernandez is against Bumgarner, which is really one of the weirdest parts of baseball considering that Bumgarner is one of the best pitchers in the league and Hernandez is not an all-star. The Hernandez-Bumgarner matchup is one of the easiest to predict in baseball: it usually leads to some base hits. Hernandez will undoubtedly extend my streak on Wednesday,<doc-sep>Regardless of last night’s outcome, the Giants have clearly given the Dodgers everything they’ve got. They’re the Davids in this David v. Dodger situation, after all, and while we expect them to lose, it’s nice to see them show a little bit of fight. After stealing game one, they’ve got their best chance of winning the series tonight thanks to Madison Bumgarner being on the mound. Oh sure, you might agree with everyone here on the site that he’s an ace in decline, but you know, he’s probably going to pitch six innings tonight. Anything can happen. Of course, in his last start, he created an unearned run situation that led to a five-run outburst by the Dodgers (Cody Bellinger with a home run, of course) but the Giants managed to make it close in their 6-5 loss. Maybe if Bumgarner holds it together, they Giants might have a shot? On the other hand, he’s coming off one of his worst starts ever — 11 hits and five earned runs allowed in 5.2 innings against the Yankees. He never looked... uh... what’s the word... good in that game and the Yankees’ emergency backup lineup never broke a sweat on their way to mashing his 84 mph cutters. Here’s the lineup that will be facing a bunch of 84 mph cutters: Tonight’s Dodger lineup at Giants: Hernández 2B Seager SS Turner 3B Bellinger RF Freese 1B Martin C Verdugo CF Taylor LF Ryu P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/mn9pi6h2cE — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 1, 2019 Meanwhile, Hyun-Jin Ryu has comined for 19 strikeouts and 1 walk in his last two starts (12.2 IP) which were against the Brewers in Milwaukee and against the Pirates in LA. He’s 6-6 with a 2.94 ERA in his career against the Giants (16 starts, 88.2 IP), and the lefty has held right-handed batters to a .665 OPS over the course of his career. Still, I’m looking forward to seeing what Tyler Austin and Kevin Pillar can do against him.<doc-sep>The most surprising part of the Giants’ 2-1 win over the Dodgers tonight was how it combined every facet of both teams in just nine innings. This was not an all-timer, but in the history of the rivalry, it was one of the most The Rivalry-type games in rivalry history. By every conceivable measure, the Dodgers are vastly superior to the Giants. But the Giants still had Madison Bumgarner starting tonight, and for all the talk of his decline you’d figure he’d still show some gumption and fiery spirit for at least an inning or two against the team he’s faced the second-most times in his major league career (the honor of first goes to the Padres). Instead, he pitched six innings of vintage Madison Bumgarner. Eight strikeouts, two walks, four hits in 114 pitches, and hit 93 mph with his fastball multiple times. He threw the fastball 67 times, something he hasn’t done in quite a long time. His reliance on the cutter was part of his undoing in April, so going away from that to stick with the fastball was a great move, considering he was able to throw it a tick faster than usual. He was perfect through the first three innings, then immediately found himself in trouble to start off the fourth inning. He got through it with a strikeout, groundout, and another strikeout — Max Muncy with the bases loaded. He needed 32 pitches to get through that inning, but he did it without allowing a run and without giving in to the hitters. That’s vintage Bumgarner. It wasn’t all vintage, though, and that’s why this game stands out so much. True, Buster Posey hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to win it and that really stands out, but the Giants were in that situation because of everything that happened in that top of the sixth inning, which was all very 2019 Giantsy. Enrique Hernandez, surprising no one, doubled off a curveball that caught too much of the plate, and just beating Tyler Austin’s wobbly throw from left field. Bumgarner followed that with a strike out of Corey Seager on a two-seam fastball away. After getting Justin Turner to fly out on a high fastball, it looked like this vintage Bumgarner performance was close to being that way start to finish. And then this happened: Let’s go back to the premise of tonight’s game: we saw the best that both teams had to offer, and we saw the worst the Giants had to offer, too (the Dodgers are practically perfect in every way). Cody Bellinger did not hit a home run tonight, but this was his one hit. The RBI and home run leader hustled down the line and didn’t give up on the play. I mean... look at how good this guy is: Cody Bellinger now has 7 infield hits, one off the Major League lead held by José Altuve. — Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) May 2, 2019 He’s slugging .890 and he’s got 7 infield hits through the first month of the season. Anyway — Madison Bumgarner snapped forward in time from the 2016 Wild Card Game — the last time, according to this tweet, that he threw his fastball the majority of the time — to the 2019 Giants, a team that makes the kind of mental mistakes and misplays that he wound up making on this very play. He just didn’t think to cover first base. Brandon Belt was slow to get up after the play, so there was a momentary fear that not only did Bumgarner’s lack of hustle lead to a run, it might’ve led to an injury that counted for nothing. It has been the recipe all season long — the Giants have ruined their chances of winning a given gave nearly as often as the other team. And then Bruce Bochy left Madison Bumgarner in the game to finish the inning, requiring 10 more pitches to face Russell Martin and Max Muncy, and with the inning ending on a 100 mph groundout to Yangervis Solarte, that Statcast put an expected batting average of .500 on — the game could’ve unwound completely there. It has before. In the top of the seventh inning, Brandon Crawford simply muffed a 98.8 mph groundball off the bat of Chris Taylor, putting Reyes Moronta right into the stretch. Alex Verdugo followed up with a single to put runners at first and second, and the feeling behind the game settled into a much more familiar vibe. Ah, this is the game we’ve seen most of the year. It didn’t look like the Dodgers were going to stop being the 2019 Dodgers, which is exactly what these Giants couldn’t afford. And then Chris Taylor stole third base and Corey Seager stole second base a batter later, but around all that, Reyes Moronta returned to form to strike out Hernandez and Corey Seager. There is no such thing as a vintage Reyes Moronta performance — the Giants are hoping to create such a persona very soon, however, and nights like tonight will go a long way towards building up that legend. For one night, the Giants were able to revisit their own legend status against the Dodgers and earned a hard fought win. The type of win that reminds you that baseball can be fun and joy is also part of the baseball viewing experience. Even in 2019. While we all love Oracle Park, we might need to reconsider some things about it. The park isn’t perfect. In any other baseball stadium, Brandon Belt’s flyout in the bottom of the first inning would’ve been a home run and would’ve given the Giants a 3-0 lead. Hyun-Jin Ryu was shaky to start off the game but then settled in as soon as he was gifted with this out: Brandon Belt (12) off LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (7) - 104.6 mph, 33 degrees (386 ft Sac Fly, .820 xBA) 80.9 mph Changeup#Dodgers @ #SFGiants (B1) — MLBBarrelAlert (@MLBBarrelAlert) May 2, 2019 Brandon Belt's sac fly was hit 105 MPH at a 33 degree launch angle...<doc-sep>The Dodgers lost 2-1 on a walk-off single from Buster Posey scoring Steven Duggar. The Giants were able to win their second one-run game in this series and the season series is split at 3-3. Julio Urías gave up two one-out singles to put runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth. After striking out Brandon Belt, Urías was replaced by Pedro Báez. Posey got ahead in the count and he was able to drive a single to left to score the winning run. The poor ninth inning should diminish the start by Dodger left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu. Ryu matched his career high with an eight-inning effort on Wednesday. He allowed a run and four hits. Ryu struck out six and did not walk anyone. For the season, Ryu now has 39 strikeouts and just two walks. The Giants were able to score a run after their third batter hit in the first inning. A single and double put runners on second and third. A long sacrifice fly by Brandon Belt scored the run that gave the Giants a 1-0 lead. That run was only the second run the Giants had scored in the first inning this season. That score remained that way until the sixth inning, Kiké Hernández who entered the game hitting .500 against Madison Bumgarner. He was 21-for-42 with four home runs. Hernández, who had singled earlier, doubled off the wall to put him in scoring position. But he was still there with two outs. Cody Bellinger hit a ground ball down the right-field line. Belt was able to field it but Bellinger was able to beat the throw. Meanwhile, Hernández had been trying to steal third and he was able to go home to score the tying run. Bumgarner pitched well to Dodgers not named Kiké Hernández. He pitched six innings and gave up one run and four hits. Bumgarner walked one and struck out eight. Reyes Moronta followed Bumgarner and he was able to work his way out of first and second with no outs. After Ryu struck out attempting to bunt, Moronta was able to strike out Hernández and Seager to end the threat. The Dodgers would leave eight runners on base and they went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Wednesday particulars WP: Will Smith (1-0) 1 IP, 1 hit LP: Julio Urías (2-2) ⅔IP, 1 run, 2 hits, 1 SO Up next The Dodgers have their first of five off-days in May tomorrow. On Friday, they will see former teammate Manny Machado and the San Diego Padres for the first time this season. Clayton Kershaw will take the mound against Eric Lauer, first pitch will be at 7:10 p.m.<doc-sep>
After scoring only two runs yesterday, the Dodgers scored 10 runs for the first time since April 7 on Tuesday night, defeating the Giants 10-3. LA fell behind early on, but were able to take the lead in the fourth inning. Justin Turner led the inning off with a walk, and Cody Bellinger followed with a single. For Bellinger, it was his 47th hit of the year, setting the all-time major-league record for most hits before May 1. David Freese stepped up to the plate, and barely cleared the fence in right field. Nonetheless, it still went over, and gave the Dodgers the 3-1 lead. The offense really exploded in the sixth, as LA put six runs on the board to put the game out of reach. After loading the bases, Chris Taylor doubled to right field, bringing in two runs to give the Dodgers the 5-1 lead. Austin Barnes followed with a double of his own, pushing the lead to 7-1. Two batters later, Enrique Hernandez hit his sixth homer of the season, giving the Dodgers an eight run cushion. On the pitching side of things, Walker Buehler picked up his third win of the season. He lasted only 5 1⁄ 3 innings, allowing three runs, but struck out six and was efficient throwing strikes all night long. Of the 95 pitches he threw, 66 were for strikes. For the most part, he cruised through the first five innings, including a stretch where he retired 11 straight batters. He allowed a single, double and triple in the sixth, and exited the game with a runner on third and one out. Dylan Floro came in and got both runners out, helping LA escape the sixth with a comfortable six-run lead. Turner finally connected for his first home run of the season in the seventh, giving the Dodgers a 10-3 lead. On the night, the Dodgers had 10 hits as a team. Though, none meant more than this one right here. After AJ Pollock was placed on the IL, the team recalled infielder Matt Beaty from triple-A. Making his MLB debut, Beaty singled in his first career at bat. Yimi Garcia closed things out for LA, throwing two scoreless innings. After a rough start to the season, Garcia has really settled down over his last seven outings. Over that stretch, Garcia has thrown eight scoreless innings while striking out six and allowing no base hits. With the win, the Dodgers are the first team in the MLB to reach 20 wins on the season. Tuesday particulars WP: Walker Buehler (3-0) 5 1⁄ 3 IP, 6 SO, 3 ER LP: Drew Pomeranz (1-3) 4 IP, 3 ER, 3 SO Home runs: David Freese (2), Enrique Hernandez (6), Justin Turner (1) Up next The Dodgers will look to get the series win on Wednesday night, as they’ll send Hyun-Jin Ryu to the mound. First pitch is at 6:45 pm on SportsNet LA.