Julio Urías gave up six earned runs and a career-worst 11 hits over five innings, and the Dodgers lost 11-6 to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.
later hit home runs — Pujols tied Babe Ruth for fourth place on the all-time list of extra-base hits — but the hole was too deep.
The Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger, who was out for nearly two months because of a hairline fracture in his left leg, grounds out in the eighth inning in his first game back.Advertisement If Treinen, Jansen and Price were unavailable, that would have left seven relievers. None of them stirred until after Urías had given up his 11th hit. It was the fourth inning.“I didn’t have to,” Roberts said. “I just felt that his stuff was still good. I’m not putting him in harm’s way. It’s the bottom part of the order, the pitcher being one of them. I just think it’s a smart baseball move.
“I didn’t have my good stuff tonight,” he said. “To go out there and pitch five innings, to give a little bit more length, and for Dave have the confidence in me to throw those five innings, is something I could take away, and feel really good about and really happy about.”Urías batted for himself in the bottom of the fifth, striking out. The Dodgers finally called upon a reliever, Phil Bickford, to start the sixth.