[0:02]This is game one of a three game set with the Dodgers and uh it renews uh the greatest rivalry in sports in our humble opinion. The beauty of this rivalry is over the years, most of the time, both teams have been very, very competitive. Certainly the Dodgers and the Giants is it's the real deal. Pitcher for the Giants is right hander Landon Ropen, really he's been the best giant starting pitcher of the year. Four starts, three and one record, a 238 earn run average in his last one out against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati, he was just spectacular. So Roop is on the mound against this Dodger's team. He struck him out swinging and that was a change up. One away. Man, that was just nasty. Tucker at 256. He's got three home runs, 13 runs better. Center field. Yelbert racing in, slows down, two down. Well, Freddy Freeman makes his return to the Dodger lineup. And congratulations to Freddy and Chelsea and the Freeman family with the birth of London Rosemary, as Kirsten told us about. And it is a sinker. just misses inside, ball four. Dodgers have their first base runner of the game. Teoscar Hernandez, powerful right-handed hitter. Now he swings, hits one off the end of the bat to center field, over to his right a bit, Gelbert makes the catch, inning over. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers in this three game series against San Francisco. This is his fifth start of the year, coming off a no decision against the Mets. One hopper to Kim. Kim just threw that one into San Mateo. Holy smokes. That ball was clobbered and he kind of dropped to his knees as he angled back onto the outfield grass to backhand the ball, jumped up on the wet grass and made a just a hilariously wild throw. A base hit with eyes to Stephon Domus at third, and the Giants are at the corners before Yamamoto's gotten the first out of the night. And now the bases are loaded with nobody out for Raffy Devers. A sub optimal start to be sure. Swing and a line drive over the head of the second baseman Freeland. Adames into score easily from third, and the Giants have a one-nothing lead. A hard hit, bases loaded single and an RBI there for Devers. Mark prior with a little bit of a visit, give him a blow. 15 pitches already, hasn't recorded an out. And a chance for a big inning against a guy who does not give up many of them. Yamamoto. Pop fly left center field. Tesker went back at first, now comes on with Call, they collide! Call makes the catch, throw goes to third, run will score, and you hope that everybody's okay. Call and Hernandez drill one another there in the gap. Two to nothing on a sack fly from Schmidt. Now here is Jun Hu Lee, runners at first and third, one out. He rips one and it's going to be in to score is Chapman and it's three nothing. Jung Hu Lee, first ball swinging, knocks in the Giants third run of the innings. Statistically, the Giants offense lacking. Statistically, Yamamoto dominating. They've gone into six innings in every game, have not given up more than two runs, has given up three. He throws with a curve and it's launched to left. Hernandez to the corner. Yamamoto gets away with that. Two out. Well, every curve ball that he has thrown has been kind of lazy. Even though they're strikes, there's just a pattern to them right out of his hand. There's the pitch. Fly, left center field, Call running after it and he's got room. Makes the catch on the foot of the warning track and that retires the side in the first inning. But it's a crooked number for San Francisco. They scored three runs. Here's Max Muncy, hitting 303. Swings through, strike three. Second K for Ropp. Two outs, bases empty in the second. And to center field. Gilbert paused at first, comes on and he cost him, didn't get a great read off of the bat. Those can be the tough ones when they're headed right at you. Kim's got a base hit first of the day for the Dodgers. Now here is Alex Call. On one hop and the throw to first in time and that'll end the inning. Shut down inning. Nicely handled by Ropp. Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not have any command in the Dodgers did not have command of their defensive faculties. It would be fair to say. Swing and a miss. He's got his first strike out as he sits down a damus. And he is so disciplined with the positions he goes through in his delivery that he can move the ball when locked in, which is a lot of time. Inches, depending on where the last pitch was. Arraez smashes the ball in the air to right center field, with the wrong part of the wrong park to do that. And so, Giants go down in order 1-2-3. No change in the score, three nothing going to the third. Roop been given a three run lead here and has worked through the first two innings, only one hit allowed. Got him! Nice comeback for Landon Roof, strike out number three down on that count, he's a sane here. Hit this, I have a three nothing lead. Right now, not even Aaron Judge in baseball elicits the reaction that Ohtani does when he comes to the plate, no matter where the Dodgers are playing. Pitch on the way. Ohtani strikes out swinging on the big curveball. Roop's got him twice in two at bats. That's Landon Roop's fourth strike out of the game. The 3-2. Tucker strikes out swinging. Landon Roop ends up striking out the side. That was really impressive. Yamamoto looking for some swing and miss here tonight. Has not been up to par as far as what's normal for him. There's some swing and miss. On the splitter. That's the Yamamoto right there. Not just because of the strike out, the swing and miss. The movement of the pitch, he just did not have that going for him. And the delivery seemed out of sync. Vicious rip and a miss right there, back-to-back case for Yamamoto here in the third. Beats him with a four seamer after a good split. Slow him down, speed him up, get the punch out. Half-hearted swing and a roller to third. Muncy will scrape it up and K.C. Schmidt is out number three. Three walks in this inning against Roop. They're loaded up for Kim. Outside ball four. Challenge from Bailey, leaning in a high leverage philosophy. This is edgy again. I think this one might be a strike. No! The Dodgers are on the board on the fourth walk of the fourth inning.
[6:44]So he walks in the first run. Landon Ropp, who was absolutely dealing and cruising through three innings. Gave up just two base runners, otherwise had five strike outs and three scoreless. The wheels have come off in the fourth. Call hits ground ball toward third. Chapman has it. He'll go to second. One, Rize to first, got him, double play. Somehow, Landon Ropp gives up only the one. Two outs on three pitches. Yamamoto stabilizing the outing now and giving his team a chance to get back in it. Here's Yamamoto. Got him swinging. Another dastardly splitter from the right-hander and another 1-2-3 inning. A shut down inning. Freeland struck out his first time. The pitch on the way. Strike three call. If Alex Freeland had a little bit more time in the big leagues, he might have challenged that. I agree. And he would have won that challenge if he had. Ohtani brings his 52 game on base streak into tonight. Curveball reach four, lifted to right field and backing up a little bit, but plenty of room to make the catch, Junghu Lee. Ohtani was way off balance with that swing. It was all arms and upper body. Tucker is O for two. Strike three caught on the outside corner. And I'm almost positive that'll be his final pitch of the night. But he finishes up very strongly, rebounds beautifully after that nightmarish four. Sixth inning now at Oracle Park and for the Giants, Ryan Borucki, the left-hander has come into the game. Swings at that one down the line and it sneaks by Chapman, into left field. Hernandez headed for second with a one-out double. So two down. Here is Dalton Rushing. Runner at second, a swing and a high fly ball into medium deep left center back into his right. Now under it. Gilbert, he's got it. So Borucki gets all three of the lefties. Giants got all three runs in the first inning. They don't have a hit since. Who would have thought that Yamamoto would outlast Roop in this game? Here's the one-two, Junghu Lee. And a base hit. He went down and dug out that splitter. And drove it right over the head of Freeland, the second baseman. Elliot Ramos to the plate, O for two. Yamamoto got the job done below two of his norms. Normally a lot of swing and miss and a lot of ground balls. Half pace tonight on both those categories. There he goes. Here it comes. Ramos scalls the ball into center field and back-to-back two-out hits. Wow, Lee's going to try to score. Freeland to the plate, it's in time! He tags him out and the inning is over! The one they call the grandson of the wind tried to run like it, but a relay to the plate cuts him down and it stays three to one. Ohtani comes up as the tying run, running out of chances to extend that on-base streak. One shy of Shawn Green for the second longest streak in franchise history for the longest streak in LA Dodger history. Grounds one left side, backhand Adames, heaves it to the to the corner and it's not in time. Ohtani extends the on-base streak with an infield hit. He has tied Shawn Green for the longest on-base streak in LA Dodger history. In one of the most unlikely ways, Shohei Ohtani, one of his softest exit velocity hits of his career, I'm sure. Now the Dodgers have the tying run at first base. Kyle Tucker, the hitter. He throws. Tucker strikes out swinging. Well, he blew him away. He had Tucker in between. Yoshinobu Yamamoto prepares for a seventh inning of work. He gave up three runs in the first inning. Since then, though, Mo, just three base runners. He finishes his night with a three. And he strikes out the side in the seventh. Yamamoto, strong through seven. Seven punch outs, he is giving his team a chance. Runner at second, two down for Will Smith with the Giants ahead here in the eighth inning. Three to one. Splitter struck him out swinging. Once again, the Dodgers come up empty with the runner on base. 3-1 in the middle of the eighth. And right now it's Ryan Walker who comes in. Alex Freeland with Shohei Ohtani on deck. Two down, the pitch. Swing and a miss, he struck him out. He blew a fastball by him right down the middle. So game one in this three game series goes to the Giants.
