Mookie Betts and Will Smith can't deliver and a strong pitching performance is wasted when Orlando Arcia homers in the 10th inning for the Braves.
After an emotional pregame tribute to the late Kobe Bryant, the Dodgers fell to the Braves for the second night in a row despite newcomer Kolten Wong’s homer.Betts missed an opportunity to join Charlie Blackmon and Darin Erstad as the only leadoff hitters ever to reach triple figures in RBIs when he struck out with the bases loaded and two out in the fourth inning.
Betts, whose 51 hits in August set a franchise record for a calendar month, has driven in 98 runs. But he chased two pitches out of the strike zone before being called out by umpire Mark Ripperger on a pitch about two inches outside. That episode occurred one inning after Acuña hammered the ball harder than anyone has all season, ambushing a 3-0 fastball by rookie Emmet Sheehan that left the yard at 121.4 mph.
The greatest exit velocity this season until that swing was a three-way tie between Shohei Ohtani, Giancarlo Stanton and Matt Olson at 118.6 mph.The homer was the only run given up by Sheehan in four innings, and he departed with the score tied 1-1 after the Dodgers failed to do much with an earlier bases-loaded opportunity in the third.
A leadoff double by Austin Barnes was followed by walks to Betts and Freddie Freeman, bringing up Smith with none out. He grounded into a 6-4-3 double play, which scored Barnes but blunted a chance at a big inning.
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