Grand finale: Yasmani plates winner for LA

ATLANTA — Clayton Kershaw escaped multiple threats and Matt Wisler overcame most of the defensive mistakes made behind him. But after these two starting pitchers set the tone at Turner Field on Thursday afternoon, Yasmani Grandal provided a 10th-inning double that allowed the Dodgers to claim a 2-1, 10-inning win over the Braves.

Grandal’s one-out double off Alexi Ogando scored Enrique Hernandez from first base and enabled the Dodgers to end this three-game set with consecutive 10-inning victories over the Braves, who had entered Wednesday having won four straight games since beginning the season with nine straight losses.

Kershaw surrendered a season-high 10 hits, but the only run he gave up over eight innings came courtesy of the consecutive doubles Erick Aybar and Daniel Castro notched to begin the bottom of the first inning. The Dodgers southpaw notched 10 strikeouts and induced a timely double play off Wisler’s bat after the Braves began the second inning with three consecutive singles.

Unfazed by the lingering effects of Sunday’s six-pitch emergency relief appearance or his matchup against Kershaw, Wisler limited the Dodgers to one unearned run as he threw a career-high 115 pitches over 6 2/3 innings. Jim Johnson escaped a bases-loaded threat in the eighth inning, and Arodys Vizcaino pitched around Chase Utley’s double in a scoreless ninth.

“I think our record this year is not a great indication of how we’ve competed and how we’ve played most of the year,” Braves outfielder Drew Stubbs said. “I think we could very easily have a winning record right now. We’ve been in most every game. We just have to keep moving forward.”

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDRoll with the punchouts: Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw worked plenty out of the stretch, but he made pitches when he needed to. Kershaw allowed 10 hits, equal to the total …

continue reading in source mlb.mlb.com