CLEVELAND — Mookie Betts matched his profession excessive with 5 hits and drove in two runs, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday within the completion of a suspended recreation.
Betts singled 4 instances within the first six innings and had a two-run double within the eighth for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who’re 18-3 in August. The seven-time All-Star, who additionally had 5 hits for Boston towards Kansas City on Aug. 26, 2016, is batting .561 throughout an 11-game hitting streak and has a .456 common this month.
The groups had been to play their usually scheduled recreation later Thursday, with the Guardians’ Gavin Williams to face Ryan Pepiot.
Los Angeles led 3-1 after two innings Wednesday when heavy rain pressured play to be suspended after a 1 hour, 37 minute stoppage. Another spherical of storms arrived after the underside of the eighth Thursday, delaying the sport for 72 minutes.
Gus Varland (1-0) labored 1 1/3 innings for his first huge league win as seven pitchers mixed for a four-hitter. Guardians starter Xzavion Curry (3-2) gave up three runs in three innings.
Kiké Hernández had a two-run double, Freddy Freeman had three hits and an RBI and Will Smith added a sacrifice fly for the Dodgers.
PHOTOS: Betts has 5 hits and a couple of RBIs as Dodgers beat Guardians 6-1 in suspended recreation
Cleveland’s lone run got here within the first when José Ramírez homered off Clayton Kershaw, who struck out 4 over two innings in his third begin since getting back from a sore left shoulder.
The Guardians accomplished their first suspended house recreation since June 24-25, 1994, after they misplaced to the Yankees at Cleveland Stadium.
HOMECOMING
Guardians C Eric Haase, who was claimed off waivers from Detroit on Monday, appeared in his first recreation with the franchise since 2019. He went 1 for 4 after batting .201 with 4 homers and 26 RBIs for the Tigers.
Haase was a seventh-round decide by Cleveland within the 2011 beginner draft however solely performed in 19 main league video games earlier than being designated for project eight years later.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: RHP Lance Lynn (9-9, 5.60 ERA) makes his fifth begin for Los Angeles within the opener of a three-game sequence in Boston. Lynn is 3-0 with a 1.44 ERA since being acquired from the White Sox.
Guardians: RHP Tanner Bibee (9-3, 3.01 ERA) pitches the primary recreation of a three-game sequence in Toronto. Bibee is tied for first amongst AL rookies in victories with Houston’s Hunter Brown and J.P. France.
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