Tucker, Ohtani Deliver in Extra Frames as LAD Edges ARI 2-1

Kyle Tucker hit a 366-foot home run in the eighth plate appearance and then scored the winning run in the tenth on an Ohtani infield single, lifting Los Angeles to a 2-1 win. The Dodgers needed every inch of both plays to survive a Brandon Pfaadt performance that looks, in hindsight, like one of the more dominant outings of the season.

Pfaadt was the story through seven innings. He held Los Angeles to just 2 hits over 7.0 innings, walking 2 and striking out 2, and did it without allowing a single earned run — a line that would have been a complete-game shutout in a different era. Yoshinobu Yamamoto matched zeros on his side, going 5.2 innings with 3 hits, 0 earned runs, 3 walks, and 6 strikeouts before handing things off. Both starters were locked in, and the game had the feel of something that would be decided by one swing.

That swing came from Tucker. In the eighth plate appearance of the game, he homered to right — 366 feet — to put Los Angeles ahead 1-0. Arizona answered immediately. In the very next plate appearance, Corbin Carroll tripled to left and Geraldo Perdomo scored, knotting it at 1-1. That triple was the gut-punch moment of the night: Arizona's home win probability swung from 61% to 95% — a 34-point shift — on a single at-bat. The Diamondbacks appeared to have seized full control of the game, and the crowd had every reason to believe it.

But the Dodgers didn't fold. In the tenth plate appearance, Ohtani reached on an infield single to first, Tucker scored, and Feduccia moved to second — a quiet, almost understated sequence that put Los Angeles back on top 2-1 for good. Ohtani finished 1-for-5 with 1 RBI. Tucker went 1-for-4 but scored twice, which looks like the most efficient two-run contribution you can ask for from a cleanup hitter. Andy Pages went 2-for-4 and Gabriel Moreno went 2-for-5 for Arizona, but neither team could manufacture much beyond those individual moments. Gerardo Carrillo threw 1.2 scoreless innings in relief for the Diamondbacks, and Alex Vesia matched him with a clean inning for Los Angeles. In the end, the Dodgers won a game they probably shouldn't have after that Carroll triple — and that, more than anything else, is what makes this one worth remembering.