Dodgers 5 Giants 2: Dodgers overcome sloppy defense as Emmet Sheehan goes six strong innings and offense rallies in the sixth

Alex Campos 05/14/2026 Game Recaps Leave A Comment

The Dodgers salvaged a series split with a 5-2 win against the Giants to end a 3-4 homestand. Their five runs are the most they’ve scored in a game since May 6, and they did so without Shohei Ohtani or Mookie Betts in the lineup.

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The Ohtani-less Dodger lineup struck immediately, as DH Will Smith hit Landen Roupp‘s fourth pitch of the game over the right-center wall.

It was only Smith’s fourth homer of the season and his first since April 24. The Dodgers put up another rally in the second which started with a Max Muncy walk and a Teoscar Hernández double. Dalton Rushing lost a challenge and struck out, but Hyeseong Kim delivered an RBI single to snap an 0-for-12 streak.

With runners on the corners, Miguel Rojas attempted a safety squeeze that bounced right back to Roupp. Hernández broke for the plate, and was caught in a mini rundown.

Meanwhile, Emmet Sheehan was absolutely cruising through four innings. He worked around a hit-by-pitch and a walk for three no-hit innings before allowing a one-out single to Rafael Devers in the fourth. Sheehan got what could have been a double play ball, but Rojas’ feed to Kim was high and nearly pulled him off the base. Kim was able to get the out at second and Sheehan got Willy Adames to foul out to end the threat.

The fifth inning started innocently enough with a strikeout. Drew Gilbert challenged a full count strikeout and reversed it to a walk, but he was erased after Rojas let a popup drop to replace Gilbert with the slower Eric Haase. With a runner on first and two outs, Jung Hoo Lee hit a blooper to left that Teo must have assumed was bouncing into the stands. It didn’t, and Teo just watched it bounce to the wall for a game-tying inside the park homer.

Not great. A better throw might have had Lee at the plate, but the cutoff man (I think Rojas) threw high to tie the game. I wonder what Chad has to say about this.

Sheehan bounced back to get out of the fifth and retired the side in order to get through six after failing to get through five innings in each of his last two starts. His final line was six innings, two hits, two runs, six strikeouts, two walks on 97 pitches. He threw a first-pitch strike to 20 of the 23 batters he faced and got 19 whiffs including 10 on the fastball. His fastball velocity was a touch higher in this start (94.8 MPH, up from 94.1), but it got down to 93.6 in the sixth inning.

Meanwhile, Roupp settled in and was able to get to the sixth still tied at two. The Dodgers had a chance in the fifth after Rojas singled with one out. Freddie Freeman crushed a grounder to first that Devers fielded and stepped on the base for the out, but tried to get Rojas at second and his throw went into left. Rojas got to third, but Kyle Tucker struck out to end that threat.

The Dodgers got to Roupp again in the sixth after a leadoff Andy Pages walk and Muncy beating out a double play. Teo lined a ball to left for a hit that was initially called a double but changed to a single to end Roupp’s night with two runners on. Matt Gage came in and gave Rushing his third strikeout of the game, but Dave Roberts called on Alex Call to pinch hit for Kim.

Rojas followed that up with a 10-pitch AB that ended in a bloop single to score Call for a 5-2 lead.

Edgardo Henriquez was the first Dodger out of the pen and threw a 1-2-3 seventh. Alex Vesia worked around a leadoff walk for a scoreless eighth, and Tanner Scott continued his bounceback season with a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out two.

The win moves the Dodgers to 26-18, and the Padres’ loss in Milwaukee earlier today puts the Dodgers back on top in the NL West. They begin a nine-game road trip with a weekend series up the 5 against the Angels. Blake Snell gets the ball tomorrow for the Dodgers against Jack Kochanowicz, whose name I’m not looking forward to having to type in thread tomorrow.

Come back Chad.

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I've been writing about the Dodgers since I graduated from Long Beach State, where I covered the Dirtbags in my senior year. I'm either very good or very bad at puns.
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