It requires a truly wretched effort from a pitching staff to lose a game in which your offense hits six home runs. Lucky for the Dodgers, on Sunday they hit seven.
“That’s what we do,” Enrique Hernandez said after the Dodgers’ 8-7 victory over the New York Mets. “We hit homers.”
The game drifted beyond regulation as the teams ran out of pitchers. The Dodgers asked Daniel Hudson (2-2) to pitch the final two innings. Flexen was the seventh pitcher used by the Mets. Turner had started the game on the bench, given a chance to reset amid a slump.