Turner’s Two Bombs Cover for Two Errors as Phillies Outslug Dodgers 10-7

Trea Turner posted a 5-RBI night with a pair of home runs and also committed multiple errors at shortstop, and somehow the net result was a 10-7 Phillies win over the Dodgers that felt like it required every one of those runs to survive itself.

The box score will tell you Turner went 3-for-5 with two homers and five driven in. The play-by-play tells a stranger story. In the first inning, his fielding error on a routine ground ball loaded the bases for the Dodgers with two outs — Miguel Rojas couldn’t cash in. In the sixth, with the bases loaded and two outs following an intentional walk to Shohei Ohtani, Turner mishandled another grounder from Andy Pages, letting two runs score that cut Philadelphia’s lead to 4-3. By WPA standards, the glove nearly gave back what the bat produced.

Then the bat took over. Turner’s first homer — a no-doubt shot on a hanging slider from Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan — capped a four-run second inning. His second, off reliever Alex Vesia in the sixth, came after Brandon Marsh had already gone deep to lead off the frame. That three-run swing pushed the Phillies’ lead back to 7-3 and effectively reset the game Turner’s defense had nearly handed away.

Sheehan took the loss, falling to 4-7. He lasted 5.1 innings, allowing eight hits and six runs while striking out six. The pitch count was manageable when Dave Roberts sent him back out for the sixth, but Sheehan had been living in traffic all night. Cristopher Sánchez, the groundball-reliant lefty, improved to 12-4 despite the defense behind him turning his sinkerball approach into an adventure. Sánchez gave up three runs on seven hits over 5.1 innings with seven strikeouts.

Ohtani went 0-for-3 with two punchouts against Sánchez, continuing a matchup that has stubbornly refused to bend to his will. The Dodgers left nine men on base.

The late innings devolved into a home run derby. Bryce Harper took Landon Knack deep for his 200th home run in a Phillies uniform — a milestone worth pausing on, even in a game that had long since stopped being about nuance. Derek Hill followed with one of his own. Mookie Betts, the Dodgers’ most productive hitter on the night, hit two homers as well, including a two-run shot in the ninth that cut the deficit to three and forced the Phillies to bring in Jhoan Duran for the final out rather than letting the inning breathe.

Betts finished with four RBIs. Turner finished with five. Between them, they combined for four home runs, nine RBIs, and enough defensive chaos to fill a week’s worth of highlight reels. The Phillies outhit the Dodgers 11-12 but outscored them 10-7 — a reminder that sequencing, not volume, decides games. Philadelphia went 3-for-3 with runners in scoring position contextually; Los Angeles squandered bases-loaded chances in the first and sixth.

The series continues Tuesday with Justin Wrobleski opposing Zack Wheeler.

Sources

• Yahoo Sports — Dodgers can’t handle Trea Turner’s power in loss to the Phillies
• r/baseball Postgame Thread — Dodgers 7 @ Phillies 10