Dodgers hit 4 HRs in 8-3 win over Reds

Already bothered slightly by an ankle issue, Wood got hit in the ankle in the third inning. “It never feels like when he’s on the mound that he’s in the middle of a crisis”. ERA in innings 1-3 is 2.86. 415 over his last 15 games. In those high-leverage, high-pressure situations, he keeps coming after you. You have to come in and perform.

The Reds won the first game in a big way, with a score of 10-3, but the Dodgers came back to win the next three.

The Louisville Bats have penciled in Michael Lorenzen, who spent most of 2015 with the Cincinnati Reds after starting at Triple-A, to make a start Sunday at Louisville Slugger Field.

Said Greinke of Mattingly’s decision: “We’ve got guys whose jobs are to get hits in those situations”. “With him, you’ve got to attack the zone but execute a good pitch and not give in”.

Now with the division lead at 4.5 games for the New York Mets, they have been keeping their foot on the gas as they are 8-2 in their last 10 games showing no sign of slowing down either.

Dodgers starter Brett Anderson gave up a two-run homer to third baseman Todd Frazier in the first inning but limited the Reds to a run in the next five innings.

One bright spot for the Dodgers was Joc Pederson. “I try and simplify everything”. “He said ‘do you think we should throw a slider in the dirt?’ I said ‘that sounds great.’ He executed it. It’s nice to go out there, talk about a sequence, execute it and it worked. So it’s on me, but I knew I had to be pretty good today, throwing against Greinke”.

However, Turner opened the bottom of the inning with his 14th home run of the season for a 6-3 Dodgers cushion.

Mat Latos struck out seven in his last start, an improvement over one strikeout in his first two starts as a Dodger combined, but just about everything else went wrong. The rest of the time, the club has gone 140-135.

The Dodgers are 16-7 (.696) in Greinke’s starts this year and 51-44 (.536) in all other games.

Kenley Jansen retired the side in the ninth to earn his 22nd save in 23 chances. He earned his 129th career save, tying Jeff Shaw for second all-time in franchise history.

Reds: RHP Raisel Iglesias (3-4) will face Kansas City on Tuesday night in the opener of a 10-game homestand, which includes a makeup contest against Detroit that was rescheduled from a June 18 rainout.

The bullpen, which let the Dodgers down on the past road trip, steadied itself in the first two games of the homestand by delivering two shutout innings each from Pedro Baez in the first game and Yimi Garcia in the second game against the Nationals. The front-runner for the NL Cy Young Award, the right-hander owns a sterling 1.58 ERA with a 0.86 WHIP and a 150/29 K/BB ratio over 165 1/3 innings. In the third, he made a pitch on the outside corner up in the zone to Justin Turner, who took it to the opposite field for a home run.