It took the Dodgers until the ninth inning Monday night to erase their first two-run deficit.
But when Tanner Scott surrendered a pair of scores in the top of the 10th, they couldn’t do it again.
In a 4-3 extra-innings loss to the New York Mets on Monday, a night that started with frustration — then crescendoed with a late-game rally — ultimately ended in a familiar fizzle.
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Despite tying it behind a seventh-inning home run and a ninth-inning sacrifice fly from Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers (36-24) once again stumbled beneath the weight of their slumping closer.
In the top of the 10th, Scott gave up an RBI double to Francisco Alvarez to lead off the inning. Francisco Lindor followed with a down-the-line single to bring another run for the Mets (38-22). The left-hander, who signed for four years and $72 million this offseason, has a 4.73 earned-run average in his first 28 outings.
And after coming back once on Monday night, the Dodgers’ magic ran out in the bottom of the 10th.
Although Freddie Freeman led off with a walk, and Andy Pages followed with an RBI single that made it a one-run score, the Dodgers came up empty the rest of the way.
Max Muncy struck out. Will Smith pinch-hit for Michael Conforto at the last second — literally running out of the dugout with Conforto already digging in at the plate — but flied out to center. Then Tommy Edman scorched a comebacker straight to reliever Jose Buttó, concluding a night in which the Dodgers went two for 11 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 men on base.
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The result squandered a strong six-inning, two-run start from Dustin May. It let Ohtani’s late-game heroics go to waste.
And instead of a rollicking late-game comeback, the Dodgers instead suffered a second consecutive deflating defeat.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani hits a 424-foot home run to right field during the seventh inning Monday. (Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)
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