LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts hit a game-winning, three-run residence run within the tenth inning to elevate the Dodgers to an 8-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night time, a couple of hours after Los Angeles obtained its 2024 World Collection rings.
The Dodgers are 4-0 to begin the season for the primary time since 1981, when additionally they gained the World Collection.
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 provide Detroit a 5-3 lead within the prime of the tenth.
Tied at 3, left fielder Michael Conforto got here up quick 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 provide 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 night time strolling a blue carpet to an infield stage the place they obtained blue packing containers containing glittering rings to mark their World Collection win over the New York Yankees final 12 months.
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 Sport 1 of the Nationwide League Championship Collection and Sport 1 of the World Collection, each at Dodger Stadium.
Flaherty will get his World Collection ring earlier than Saturday’s sequence finale.
A secure name at residence 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 sequence finale.
