LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teoscar Hernández drove in three runs, including a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning, as the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off a 6-5 victory over Pittsburgh on Sunday, handing the Pirates a season-high seventh consecutive defeat.
“When (the moment) gets hot, with runners in scoring position, Teo’s heartbeat doesn’t rise,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It just looks like he embraces hitting in those spots he shortens up his swing, makes contact and that’s why he’s driven in close to 80 runs already.”
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernandez gestures after hitting a two RBI double in the second inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani flies out the first inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Ji Hwan Bae beats the throw to Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) on an attempted pick off play in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Bailey Falter delivers to the plate in the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani gets ready in the dugout during the first inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Amed Rosario (27) slides under a high throw to Pittsburgh Pirates' Isiah Kiner-Falefa (7) for a stolen base in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow delivers to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
The Dodgers had a game-tying RBI double in the 10th from Kiké Hernández, who scored on Teoscar Hernández’s single. Kiké Hernández had three hits. Right-hander Evan Phillips (3-0) allowed an unearned run in the 10th but got the win.
Bryan Reynolds gave the Pirates a 5-4 lead in the 10th inning with a one-out RBI single to center.
“I just try to not overthink it, not trying to over-swing or anything like that,” Teoscar Hernández said. “Just trying to stay patient, be calm and just get a good pitch and put it in play. In situations like that with two outs, I don’t have to do a double or homer or anything like that. With a hit, we can win a ball game.”
Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow allowed two runs on five hits over seven innings against his former team. Pittsburgh drafted Glasnow in the fifth round in 2011 and brought him to the major leagues in 2016.
Andrew McCutchen hit a pair of home runs in his return to the leadoff spot for the Pirates after missing three games with knee soreness. Left-hander Bailey Falter gave up four runs on seven hits over four innings in his first career start at Dodger Stadium.
McCutchen said his knee was at about 70%.
“Seventy percent is better than zero percent so if I can swing the bat, I’m gonna swing it,” McCutchen said. “If I can’t run I can’t run, but my job is to hit, to DH. ... Just keep the line moving, get the next guy up and that’s what I’m gonna do.”
Pirates right-hander David Bednar (3-5) took the loss while in his second inning of work. Bednar has given up runs in five consecutive outings and has a loss and two blown saves in his last three outings.
“It comes to the fact that we don’t have much left in our bullpen,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said about sending Bednar back out for a second inning of work. “We were one pitch away from getting out of it. It’s a tough spot when your bullpen is the way ours is right now.”
After hitting a two-run home run off Glasnow in the third inning, McCutchen tied the game 4-4 with a two-two run shot against Dodgers left-hander Anthony Banda in the eighth.
The Dodgers scored in the opening inning for the third time in the series. Freddie Freeman doubled with two outs and Will Smith followed with his own double for a run. Amed Rosario made it 2-0 with a single to left.
Los Angeles scored two more runs in the second inning on a two-out double from Teoscar Hernández.
After Glasnow retired the first seven batters, Ji Hwan Bae doubled with one out in the third before McCutchen hit a two-run home run off the top of the wall in right field. He increased his hitting streak to eight games, matching a season best.
“We still control our own fate,” Roberts said. “The thing for us is to continue to play good baseball. We won three this series but you peel back the curtain and situationally we weren’t good. For us to make it a game today, shouldn’t happen.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: Rookie RHP River Ryan is done for the season with an elbow ligament strain. Ryan went 1-0 with a 1.33 ERA in his first four major league starts. RHP Landon Knack (2-2, 3.07 ERA) took his spot on the roster. ... 3B Max Muncy and OF Tommy Edman came out of a rehab game Saturday in good health and both are on track to join the major league roster during the club’s Aug. 19-29 homestand. ... LHP Alex Vesia has been pitching through knee discomfort, according to Roberts, while compiling a 6.75 ERA over his past seven outings.
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Pirates: The club is undecided on a starter for the opener of a three-game series at San Diego on Monday.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (0-2, 4.38 ERA) will make his fourth start of the season in the opener of a four-game series at Monday at Milwaukee.
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernandez gestures after hitting a two RBI double in the second inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani flies out the first inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Ji Hwan Bae beats the throw to Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) on an attempted pick off play in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Bailey Falter delivers to the plate in the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani gets ready in the dugout during the first inning during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Amed Rosario (27) slides under a high throw to Pittsburgh Pirates' Isiah Kiner-Falefa (7) for a stolen base in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow delivers to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said.
“He was a devoted agent who served with honor and bravery,” a family statement provided to The Associated Press late Tuesday said. “He had a tremendous respect and pride for the work he did; he truly embodied service over self.”
Agent David Maland, 44, was killed Monday afternoon following a traffic stop, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement. A German national in the country on what the FBI called a current visa was killed and an injured suspect was taken into custody and is being treated at a local hospital.
The violence temporarily closed part of Interstate 91 about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Canada in Coventry, part of the small, 27,000-resident community of Orleans County in the Northeast Kingdom section of Vermont that straddles the international border.
Maland, whom the FBI confirmed was a U.S. Air Force veteran, was killed close to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Newport Station, part of the Swanton Sector that he was assigned to. The sector encompasses Vermont, parts of New York and New Hampshire, and includes 295 miles (475 kilometers) of international boundary with Canada.
The Derby Line–Rock Island Border Crossing is located about 12 miles (19 kilometers) by highway north of Coventry. It’s a major link to the Canadian province of Quebec, giving northern Vermont more French speakers than most of New England.
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s thoughts and prayers are with Agent Maland’s family during this difficult time,” the agency said in a statement. The death is a tragedy, said Gov. Phil Scott and state Sen. Russ Ingalls, a Republican who represents the area.
Maland's family said his career spanned nine years in the military and 15 in the federal government.
“While working in Washington, D.C., he was active security in the Pentagon during 9/11,” their statement said.
The family later said Wednesday that Maland's duty station was the Pentagon and that when news of the attacks broke, he was sent to guard an undersecretary to one of the branches of the military for several days at a bunker at the Joint Base-Anacostia Bolling, in southeast Washington.
Maland also was a K-9 handler. Before heading to the northern border, he served in Texas, near the border with Mexico.
The Minnesota native who family members called by his middle name, Chris, was about to propose marriage to his partner, said an aunt, Joan Maland.
“We are all devastated,” she told AP in a text. She called him an “exceptional person. Incredible man.”
David Maland was the first Border Patrol agent to be killed in the line of duty since Javier Vega Jr. was shot and killed near Santa Monica, Texas, in 2014, according to records provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Vega was initially considered to be off duty at the time of his death, but in 2016 it was re-determined to have been in the line of duty, the agency said.
In 2010, Brian Terry ’s killing exposed the botched federal gun operation known as “Fast and Furious.” Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie, of the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station, was mortally wounded in the line of duty in a remote area near Bisbee, Arizona, in 2012. Border Patrol Agent Isaac Morales was fatally stabbed while off duty in 2017 in Texas.
Cars are backed up at the US-Canada border in Stanstead, Quebec, after a shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vt., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Chloe Jones)
HOLD This image taken from video provided by WCAX shows police cars closing off a road after a shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Interstate 91 near Coventry, Vt., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (WCAX via AP)
A sign on an unpatrolled border street entering into Derby Line, Vermont, U.S.A., from Stanstead, Quebec, oTuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
Cars are backed up at the US-Canada border in Stanstead, Quebec, after a shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vt., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Chloe Jones)
A sign on an unpatrolled border street entering into Derby Line, Vermont, U.S.A., from Stanstead, Quebec, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)