3-run home run in 5th inning by Pages gave LA the lead. Dustin May pitched 6 innings to earn the victory, putting the Dodgers up 2 games in the NL West.
Andy Pages hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning to turn things around, part of a four-RBI night leading the Dodgers to a 5-4 win over the Giants on Sunday evening at Dodger Stadium.
It took two and a half months into the season to play their two oldest divisional rivals, but it was worth the wait for the Dodgers, who won two out of three this week over the Padres and Giants to solidify their spot in first place in the National League West.
Pages drove in at least one run in all three games this weekend against San Francisco. His three-run shot to left center field in the fifth inning off Ryan Walker turned a deficit into a two-run lead.
A Giant swing from Andy! pic.twitter.com/VgPVTSlRHy
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 16, 2025
The 13 home runs for Pages this season match his total from last regular season. In 2024, Pages batted 443 times as a rookie, while this year he’s at just 275 plate appearances with a robust 123 wRC+.
Left-hander Kyle Harrison was supposed to start on the mound for the Giants, but that was no longer an option since he was sent to the Red Sox in the blockbuster trade for Rafael Devers that broke only about 10 minutes before first pitch.
San Francisco scrambled with an impromptu bullpen game, and tall right-hander Sean Hjelle getting the ball first. The Dodgers scored in each of the first two innings against him, first with two singles, a walk, and an Pages sac fly, then with a solo home run by Tommy Edman in the second. Hjelle settled down after that and struck out five in his 3⅔ innings, his longest appearance since 2023.
Joey Lucchesi, who was on a minor league deal with the Giants and in Tacoma in Triple-A on Saturday, was added to the major league roster just prior to the game and was first to relieve Hjelle. The lefty Lucchesi got two outs but gave up the two singles in the fifth inning that scored on Pages’ three-run home run.
Dustin May was all over the place, hitting two batters and walking four more. But he didn’t give up a run until an extended Giants rally began with two outs and nobody on in the fourth. Single, hit by pitch, single brought home one run, then Jung Hoo Lee tripled home two to give San Francisco its first lead.
A walk and a double with two outs in the fifth nearly scored another run, but Dominic Smith was held at third base on a relay throw from left field that got away. May was able to wriggle out of further damage to complete five innings for the 13th time in 13 tries this season.
After Pages gave the Dodgers a lead, May tacked on a scoreless sixth as well, marking the sixth time this season May has completed at least six innings, second on the team to Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s eight such starts.
Outfielder Daniel Johnson, called up by the Giants a week and a half ago, cut the Dodgers’ two-run lead in half with a pinch-hit home run in the eighth off Kirby Yates, who was not pleased with a 1-2 ball call on the pitch that immediately preceded the home run.
Tanner Scott pitched a clean ninth through the heart of the order, striking out the side to secure his 13th save of the season.
Sunday particulars
Home runs: Tommy Edman (10), Andy Pages (13); Daniel Johnson (1)
WP — Dustin May (4-4): 6 IP, 6 hits, 3 runs, 4 walks, 3 strikeouts
LP — Joey Lucchesi (0-1): ⅔ IP, 3 hits, 2 runs
Sv — Tanner Scott (13): 1 IP, 3 strikeouts
Up next
The Dodgers divisional gauntlet continues with the Padres coming to Los Angeles for four games beginning Monday night (7:10 p.m.; SportsNet LA, MLB Network). Shohei Ohtani will make his Dodgers pitching debut as the opener on Monday. Dylan Cease is on the mound for San Diego.