Will Smith's double ignites seven-run 11th inning as the Dodgers beat the Giants 14-7

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Will Smith knocked in two runs to start a seven-run 11th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 14-7 on Saturday night.

Smith, leading off the inning after Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked, scored two runs with a hard double into the left-center field gap off Sean Hjelle (3-2). The Dodgers strung together five straight hits, with Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernández, Chris Taylor and Jason Heyward reaching base against Hjelle.

The game was tight until the 11th-inning barrage, with both teams scored their automatic runners in the 10th inning. Miguel Rojas hit an RBI single for the Dodgers and David Villar tied the game for the Giants with a double. But Daniel Hudson (5-1) escaped a bases-loaded one-out jam to send the game to the 11th.

“Long game, but the team effort was remarkable," Rojas said. “And I feel like that’s the team that we have. We're always going to fight and we’re always going to be in games.”

The Dodgers have won five of six, and are 6-2 against the Giants this season. The seven-run win was the Dodgers' second-largest extra-inning win since at least 1901.

“This was certainly unexpected,” Dodgers manager Dave Robert said of the offensive eruption. “You just don’t see that.”

The Giants scored four runs in the bottom of the third, but the Dodgers responded with four runs of their own in the fourth to take a 6-5 lead. Brett Wisely tied the game up in the fifth with a broken-bat RBI single.

Matt Chapman had three hits for the Giants along with a walk.

Ohtani homered in the third to give Los Angeles a 2-1 lead.

Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow allowed five runs in three innings, his shortest outing of the season. Los Angeles used nine pitchers, and seven pitchers threw for the Giants in a bullpen game, which they have been forced to do more often with several starters injured.

“I feel like the whole team pitched today and they picked me up,” Glasnow said. “I’m very thankful.”

Roberts said the Dodgers were running out of pitchers, and needed every run they could get to cushion the lead.

“Exhausting all of your arms feels a lot better when you win,” Roberts said.

Spencer Howard, who took over after Erik Miller pitched the first, gave up six runs in 2 2/3 innings. San Francisco entered the game leading the major leagues with 340.2 innings pitched by the bullpen.

Giants manager Bob Melvin said he kept Hjelle in the game for a second inning even though “he really had one inning in him today" because the Giants were out of options.

“It’s too bad that he gave up as many as he did, but we couldn’t use another pitcher at that time,” Melvin said.

Before the game, Melvin lamented having to put together a makeshift rotation with key starters in Blake Snell, Robbie Ray, Kyle Harrison and Alex Cobb dealing with injuries.

“It’s hard, but we have no other choice,” Melvin said. “We're going to have guys that are taxed. It’s not by design. We don’t want that. But we’re just trying to piece it together until we get some of these guys back.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Giants: LHP Blake Snell (groin) will make one more rehab start at Triple-A Sacramento on Wednesday and is expected to rejoin the rotation after the team returns from the road trip next week. … LHP Kyle Harrison (ankle) will throw one more bullpen session before rejoining the rotation. … Both IF Wilmer Flores (knee) and IF Thairo Estrada (wrist), who were placed on the injured list Friday, will stay away from baseball activities for four to five days. There is no structural damage for either injury, according to manager Bob Melvin.

UP NEXT

LHP James Paxton (7-1, 3.39 ERA) is expected to start for the Dodgers to wrap up the series. The Giants have not yet announced a starter.

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San Francisco Giants' David Villar reacts after hitting an RBI double against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 10th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

San Francisco Giants second baseman Brett Wisely, right, turns a double play after forcing out Los Angeles Dodgers' Gavin Lux at second during the eighth inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. Kiké Hernández was out at first. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Miguel Rojas gestures after hitting an RBI single against the San Francisco Giants during the 10th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Will Smith, right, reacts after hitting a two-run double against the San Francisco Giants during the 11th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center, celebrates with teammates in the dugout after scoring against the San Francisco Giants on Will Smith's double during the 11th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

San Francisco Giants' David Villar hits an RBI double against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 10th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Will Smith hits a two-run double against the San Francisco Giants during the 11th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Jason Heyward, right, celebrates with shortstop Miguel Rojas (11) after the team's victory over the San Francisco Giants in a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman celebrates his RBI double against the San Francisco Giants during the 11th inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, right, celebrates with manager Dave Roberts, back left, after the team's victory over the San Francisco Giants in a baseball game Saturday, June 29, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Eritrea's Biniam Girmay became the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage on Monday.

Girmay said his sprint win in the mostly flat third leg was “for all Africans.”

“We must be proud now. We are really part of the big races,” he said. “Now it’s our moment. It’s our time.”

Before the podium celebration, Girmay went over and greeted Eritrean fans waving their country’s green, red and blue flag.

“There is a whole continent that has been waiting for this," said Aike Visbeek, the performance director for Girmay’s Intermarche-Wanty team. "It’s been done now, and I hope it will open the floodgates for more riders from Africa. He’s an ambassador in every way.”

Meanwhile, Mark Cavendish’s pursuit of a record-breaking 35th stage win was postponed by a crash ahead of him in the finale, and Olympic champion Richard Carapaz took the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar, making him the first Ecuadorean to lead cycling's biggest race.

Girmay also made history in Italy two years ago when he won a stage at the Giro d’Italia to become the first Black African to take a victory in a Grand Tour. But Girmay’s Giro victory was marred when he was rushed to a hospital after getting h it in the left eye by a prosecco cork he popped open during the podium celebration — forcing him to abandon the race.

Also in 2022, Girmay became the first rider from a sub-Saharan country to win a single-day classic at the Gent-Wevelgem race.

Cavendish has been tied with Eddy Merckx on 34 wins for three years and put off retirement to try again this year to break the record.

The 231-kilometer (144-mile) leg from Piacenza to Turin — the longest stage of this Tour — provided the first chance for a mass sprint. There will be at least a handful of other opportunities for sprinters as the race prepares to cross back into France following the first four stages in Italy.

With time to start raising his arms before he crossed the line, Girmay finished just ahead of Fernando Gaviria and Arnaud De Lie.

Members of the Israel-Premier Tech team fell ahead of Cavendish, who crossed 113th but was given the same finishing time as Girmay as per rules that neutralize the times in case of crashes in the final five kilometers.

“I was just looking to stay up. I’m too little to see what’s going on but I could hear it,” Cavendish said. "Someone skidded and I was just waiting for someone to hit from behind. Luckily they didn’t and we kind of got through, but we were way off it and with 2.5K to go we were out of it. I don’t think anybody was seriously hurt and that’s the main thing.”

Cavendish complimented Girmay, who won a reduced sprint.

“That’s just massive. Cycling is massive in Eritrea. It’s super good for him and for African cycling," Cavendish said. "He’s a legend, isn’t he?”

Pogacar dropped to second overall, with the same time as Carapaz.

Remco Evenepoel — the 2022 world champion and Spanish Vuelta winner — is third overall; and two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard is fourth, both also with the same time as Carapaz.

Danish rider Casper Pedersen had to abandon the race after falling with 15 kilometers to go and breaking his collarbone.

The race crosses back into France on Tuesday during Stage 4, the first big mountain leg going up to Sestriere and over the Col du Galibier — one of the Tour’s classic climbs — in the 140-kilometer (87-mile) route from Pinerolo to Valloire.

Pogacar, who won the Tour in 2020 and 2021, and Vingegaard will be favored to take the yellow jersey from Carapaz, who won the Giro in 2019 before taking gold in Tokyo three years ago.

"Tomorrow will be a big day,” Carapaz said. “It will be complicated. I’m going to try and give everything. I’m going to try and enjoy every single moment in the yellow jersey.”

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Belgium's Remco Evenepoel, wearing the best young rider's white jersey, waits for the start of the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard autographs a overall leader's yellow jersey prior to the start of the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, and Slovenia's Primoz Roglic talk during the ceremonial parade of the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. Right is Belgium's Remco Evenepoel, wearing the best young rider's white jersey. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The pack with France's Christophe Laporte, center in white, rides during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, is followed by Slovenia's Jan Tratnik during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The pack climbs the hills and vineyards around Cuneo during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Stage winner Eritrea's Biniam Girmay celebrates on the podium after the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Stage winner Eritrea's Biniam Girmay reacts after the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay celebrates winning ahead of Belgium's Arnaud de Lie, left, and Colombia's Fernado Gavira, right, during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay celebrates winning ahead of Belgium's Arnaud de Lie, left, and Colombia's Fernado Gavira, center right, during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay celebrates winning ahead of Colombia's Fernado Gavira, right, during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 230.8 kilometers (143.4 miles) with start in Piacenza and finish in Turin, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)