Los Angeles Dodgers at Pittsburgh Pirates

· Major League Baseball

Los Angeles Dodgers

78-62, 33-36 Away

Final
3 - 5

Pittsburgh Pirates

64-77, 42-30 Home

Skenes pitches 6 scoreless innings and Pirates hold off Dodgers 5-3 for 3-game series sweep

Skenes (10-9) allowed two hits, struck out eight, and walked one. The right-hander finally got his record above .500 for the first time this season and lowered his ERA to a major league-best 1.98.

Skenes, last season's NL Rookie of the Year who was 4-8 this season for the last-place Pirates, has won six of his last seven decisions.

The Dodgers were held to five hits and had their division lead cut to two games over idle San Diego.

Mookie Betts broke up the Pirates’ shutout bid with a leadoff home run in the ninth inning, and RBI singles by Pedro Pages and Miguel Rojas cut the deficit to 5-3. However, Colin Holderman struck out Ben Rortvedt to end it for his first save of the season.

Dodgers starter Blake Snell (3-4) was tagged for five runs and nine hits in five innings.

Tommy Pham’s single in the third inning opened the scoring, and Nick Yorke’s two-run double highlighted a four-run fifth that pushed the Pirates’ lead to 5-0.

The Dodgers lost for the fifth time in six games, and the Prates won for the 12th time in 16 games.

Key moment The Dodgers had runners on first and second in a scoreless game in the second, but Skenes coaxed Betts into hitting into an inning-ending force play.

Key stat Holderman, who entered the game with a 7.89 ERA, finished with 2/3 of a scoreless inning.

Up next The Dodgers open a series at Baltimore on Friday with RHP Tyler Glasnow (1-3, 3.41 ERA) facing Orioles RHP Dean Kremer (9-10, 4.52).

The Pirates begin a home series with NL Central-leading Milwaukee on Friday with RHP Johan Oviedo (2-0, 3.60) starting against RHP Quinn Priester (11-2, 3.28).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Rortvedt struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Dean ran for Rojas
	9th Inning	Rojas singled to left, Conforto scored, Pages to second.
	9th Inning	Kim lined out to left.
	9th Inning	Holderman relieved Moreta
	9th Inning	Pages reached on infield single to shortstop, T. Hernández scored, Conforto to second.

Statistics

LAD		PIT
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	12
12	Strikeouts	11
3	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
1	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	9
0	Caught Stealing	1
153	Pitches	128
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
12	Total Bases	10
36	Plate Appearances	35
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
2.9	Runs Created	3.0
.229	Batting Average	.281
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.343	Slugging Percentage	.313
.143	Secondary Average	.094
.250	On Base Percentage	.343
.593	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.655
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
2.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.2
25.0	Batter Rating	31.0
35.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.25	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.66
.114	Isolated Power	.031
0.08	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.27
.028	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.086
-.086	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.188
6.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
75.5	MLB Rating	80.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0