Dodgers keep winning streak going with 10th-inning rally

Bill Plunkett, The Orange County Register on Aug 22, 2026

Published in Baseball

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LOS ANGELES — A three-day Coors Field glow-up can only do so much.

The Los Angeles Dodgers returned from their restorative visit to baseball’s day spa for sagging offenses with just enough sparkle left to retrieve a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night with Tommy Edman’s walk-off single in the 10th inning.

While the Dodgers make a brief suitcase swap out mini-homestand this weekend, the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves are facing off against each other. The Brewers (80-49) won Friday, holding onto their two-game advantage over the Dodgers (78-51) in the race for the top spot in the National League while the Braves (75-54) faded three games behind the Dodgers into the third seed.

Friday’s victory could be costly, though. Center fielder Andy Pages was hit in the left hand by a 100 mph fastball from Pirates starter Bubba Chandler during the third inning. He stayed in the game for an inning before being replaced by Kiké Hernandez. The preliminary diagnosis is a left hand contusion for Pages.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto took one of his more uneven routes to a quality start. Five of the Pirates’ first 13 batters reached base against him on four hits and one hit batter.

The traffic resulted in single runs in the first and third innings. But Yamamoto struck out the side in the second inning and settled in after Nick Gonzales’ RBI single in the third inning. He retired 10 of the next 11 batters before running into trouble again in the seventh and coming out of the game with one out and runners at first and second. Brock Stewart shut down that situation.

Yamamoto struck out nine, but his 61/3 innings required 107 pitches.

The Dodgers’ offense doubled up each time the Pirates put a run on the board against Yamamoto.

In the first inning, it was Max Muncy turning on a 100.7 mph fastball from Chandler and sending it 392 feet into the right field pavilion for a two-run homer.

In the third, Hunter Feduccia led off with a double and went to third on a single by Shohei Ohtani. After a fly out, Pages was hit by the pitch to load the bases with one out. Muncy struck out but Mookie Betts got a first-pitch fastball from Chandler – another of his 20 pitches in four innings to hit 100.1 mph or higher – and stroked it into center field to drive in two runs.

The Dodgers left the bases loaded that inning and didn’t get another runner past first base until Pirates reliever Lake Bachar walked the bases loaded with two outs in the seventh inning. That brought up Kyle Tucker, who received a loud ovation from fans before his first at-bat – a coordinated effort to offer a daily affirmation in hopes it would shake him from his home slump. He flew out to center field.

That left the Dodgers’ lead within reach of Oneil Cruz. He crushed a full-count fastball in the eighth inning, sending it 424 feet into the night for a game-tying two-run homer.

After Betts’ third-inning single, the Dodgers went 1 for their next 20 with nine strikeouts through nine innings. The game went to the 10th, though. Evan Phillips got a double-play ball to escape a bases-loaded situation in the top of the 10th, and Edman drove the game-winner into left field with two outs in the bottom of the inning.