San Francisco Giants’ Luis Matos (29) doubles during the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles on Sun Jun 18, 2023 (AP News photo)

Giants Sweep Dodgers Take Over Second Place In NL West in four run 7-3 win

By Barbara Mason

Sunday afternoon the San Francisco Giants (39-32) swept the Los Angeles Dodgers (39-33) at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles 7-3.

Neither team scored in the first three innings of game three. In the fourth inning the Giants took up where they left off in yesterday’s game scoring two runs. Michael Conforto hit a sacrifice fly and LaMonte Wade Jr. scored for the 1-0 lead. Yastrzemski singled Joc Pederson home for a 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the fourth the Dodgers James Outman singled and David Peralta scored. It was a close game 2-1 going into the fifth inning.

San Francisco got another run in the fifth taking a 3-1 lead. Brandon Crawford scored when Wade Jr. grounded out. The Dodgers kept this game close; Freddie Freeman scored off a Peralta single but they were still trailing 3-2.

The Giants blew this game open in the sixth inning. They scored four runs with Conforto, Yastrzemski, Luis Matos and Blake Sabol all crossing home plate for a 7-2 lead. San Francisco had a couple of singles and one double in the inning. Each team had seven hits but it was the Giants that held the significant lead going into the eighth inning.

San Francisco held the 7-2 lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning. The Giants were three outs away from the sweep. The Dodgers loaded the bases in the inning but it was too little too late and the Giants had not only the sweep but their seventh win in a row and a move in the NL West to second place. The Giants did walk a run in.

It was a solid game for S.F. pitcher Logan Webb who went seven innings allowing eight hits and two runs. Those two earned runs would be all that the Dodgers would get through eight innings. The Giants did everything they needed to do to sweep the Dodgers finishing a most successful road trip.

Notes: San Francisco won the first game of the series on Friday night after trailing by the score of 4-0 going into the seventh inning. It was another come from behind victory and the Giants who had to go 11 innings to get the win.

In game two on Saturday night the Giants saw something that the Dodgers had not seen since 1898. The Giants shut Los Angeles out to the tune of 15-0, the worst shutout loss for the Dodgers since they were in Brooklyn.

San Francisco will return home to take on the San Diego Padres in a four game series that will begin Monday night. The Giants are undecided as to who will take the mound in this game. The Padres will send Michael Wacha in this game with first pitch scheduled for 6:45 PM. Wacha has a 7-2 win/loss record and a 2.89 ERA.