Fortune favored the Dodgers on Friday. The score may not reflect this, not after an 8-7 defeat to Arizona, but good luck blessed the team through the final innings.
They scored three runs in the seventh on a trio of groundball singles. They scored two more in the eighth when a groundball bounced off second base.
And yet they could not capture a victory. The early hole dug by starter Kenta Maeda was too deep. The relief work of Tony Cingrani and J.T. Chargois did not help. The offense gave away too many at-bats earlier and could not capitalize late.