LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts hit a game-winning, three-run house run within the tenth inning to elevate the Dodgers to an 8-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday evening, just a few hours after Los Angeles obtained its 2024 World Sequence rings.
The Dodgers are 4-0 to start out the season for the primary time since 1981, when in addition they received the World Sequence.
Betts went deep to left off Beau Brieske (0-1), scoring pinch-hitter Will Smith and Shohei Ohtani.
Betts hit a two-out solo shot that put the Dodgers forward 3-2 within the eighth earlier than Detroit tied it within the ninth on Manuel Margot’s RBI single.
Dillon Dingler homered and tripled within the tenth to present Detroit a 5-3 lead within the high of the tenth.
Tied at 3, left fielder Michael Conforto got here up brief attempting to catch the ball hit by Dingler, permitting Riley Greene, who started the inning at second, and Zach McKinstry, who was deliberately walked by Luis Garcia (1-0), to attain.
The Dodgers acquired a run again within the backside of the tenth to path 5-4 on Conforto’s ground-rule double earlier than Betts’ heroics.
Dingler homered within the second off Yoshinobu Yamamoto to present Detroit a 1-0 lead.
The Dodgers tied the sport at 2 on Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer off Detroit starter Jack Flaherty.
The Dodgers started the evening strolling a blue carpet to an infield stage the place they obtained blue bins containing glittering rings to mark their World Sequence win over the New York Yankees final yr.
The group of 52,029 gave Flaherty a standing ovation when he left within the sixth, their thanks to the Burbank, California, native who began Recreation 1 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence and Recreation 1 of the World Sequence, each at Dodger Stadium.
Flaherty will get his World Sequence ring earlier than Saturday’s collection finale.
A secure name at house within the ninth was overturned, denying the Tigers an opportunity to take the lead after Margot was thrown out on the plate.
Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a career-high 10 strikeouts.
RH Reese Olson makes his season debut for the Tigers on Saturday. RH Roki Sasaki (0-0, 3.00 ERA) begins for the primary time at Dodger Stadium within the collection finale.
