Dodgers' most-booed reliever almost blows it in his return before they beat Nationals
But there was no chuckling among the 46,571 fans in Dodger Stadium in the top of the seventh — only hearty boos echoed through the ravine — when relievergave up one run and three hits in six efficient but hardly dominant innings, striking out two and walking two in a 70-pitch start, and he handed the ball to Vesia to start the seventh with a 4-1 lead.Vesia, a breakout relief star last year, was demoted to triple A early this month after going 0-2 with a 7.
Vesia struck out CJ Abrams and got Ildemaro Vargas to ground out, but Lane Thomas doubled and scored on Luis Garcia’s single to make it 4-3. Phillips retired the side in order in the eighth, and the Dodgers added three runs in the bottom half with a hit batter, a Nationals error, a wild pitch, an infield single, a double play and a solo homer by Freddie Freeman, who extended his hit streak to 19 games with a four-hit night.
Freeman and Martinez have been doing most of the heavy hitting. Freeman is batting .455 with five homers, 12 doubles, 21 RBIs and 18 runs during his streak, raising his average to .344 with a 1.005 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. Martinez said he is in a good rhythm at the plate and benefiting from production up and down the lineup. Jason Heyward hit a solo homer in the second inning, and Mookie Betts , Freeman and Max Muncy keyed a three-run third to which Martinez contributed a sacrifice fly.
“From the first pitch, he didn’t have much tonight,” Roberts said. “It was a gritty performance. There were a lot of hard outs. He was working behind hitters. The breaking ball, the curveball were up in the zone a lot. The changeup was missing arm-side. The fastball wasn’t commanded. He did a good job of getting outs when he needed to.”
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