The score was tied 2-2 after six innings, but the Dodgers send 15 batters to the plate in the seventh, getting seven hits and four walks in their biggest scoring inning since June 2021. Freddie Freeman collects his 2,500th career hit.
The Dodgers’ Andy Pages is greeted at the dugout steps after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in Pittsburgh.
Pages had three RBIs during the Dodgers’ 10-run seventh inning in a 12-3 win. A brief rain shower passed through Pittsburgh as the seventh inning started at PNC Park, leaving a rainbow in the sky over the left field seats. By the time it faded into the dusk, the Dodgers had broken open a tie game by scoring 10 times in the inning and routed the Pirates, 12-3, on Tuesday night.
The 10-run inning was the Dodgers’ biggest since they scored 11 runs in an inning against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 2, 2021. The first nine Dodgers reached base in the inning. When the 10th batter struck out for the first out of the inning, the diminished number of Pirates fans still on hand gave a sarcastic cheer for their team’s stick-to-itiveness.
The inning featured seven hits, including a two-run home run by Andy Pages, back-to-back bases-loaded walks and an RBI single by Freddie Freeman – the 2,500th hit of his career . Freeman is the 102nd player in baseball history to reach the milestone. The Pirates contributed to the plunder with two errors . It took three Pirates pitchers to complete the 15-batter inning.
The win was the Dodgers’ fifth in their past seven games, 14th in their past 19 and 19th in their past 25 – yeah, they’ve been rolling for awhile now. Pirates starter Paul Skenes was a threat to slow their roll. The Dodgers didn’t score a run in 12 innings against Skenes during his 2025 National League Cy Young Award season.
But Dodgers starter Eric Lauer outpitched Skenes – and might have done even better if the forecasted thunder showers had arrived on time and washed away the first inning. Lauer gave up back-to-back home runs in the first. Bryan Reynolds jumped on a hanging first-pitch curveball and lined it 422 feet into the left-field stands. The next batter, Ryan O’Hearn, took longer.
He got a 1-and-2 slider down and in and powered it over the wall in right field. The Pirates had just one more hit off Lauer who retired 15 of the next 16 batters after the back-to-back home runs. Skenes, on the other hand, was dodging danger throughout his six innings. The Dodgers had runners on base in five of the innings, in scoring position in four of those.
Mookie Betts led off the second inning with a double. Max Muncy singled him to third and Kyle Tucker drove him in with a sacrifice fly. Alex Freeland was stranded at second in the third inning and Muncy went nowhere after his second hit of the game, a fourth-inning double. Any potential scoring opportunity in the fifth inning disintegrated after Dalton Rushing’s leadoff walk.
He was out at second on a forceout that turned into a double play when Rushing was called for interference when he slid into Nick Gonzales as the shortstop was trying to turn a double play. The Dodgers finally matched the Pirates’ early getaway in the sixth inning. Freeman doubled with one out, went to third on a ground out and scored on Muncy’s third hit of the game, a bad-hop single through second baseman Brandon Lowe.
When Skenes left the mound after completing the sixth, he got a standing ovation from the fans near the Pirates’ dugout – almost as if they knew the enjoyable part of their evening was over.
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