The Dodgers continued their unbeaten streak in Cactus League play Thursday, taking a narrow 7-6 win over the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch.
Tyler Glasnow made his first start of spring training , and struck out four batters while recording six straight outs. He came out for the first batter of the third inning and allowed a hit, which turned into an earned run after the runner scored following his exit from the contest.
The Dodgers took the lead in the first inning through a Freddie Freeman sacrifice fly, and extended their lead to two in the bottom of the second through a Miguel Rojas RBI single.
Their lead didn’t last long, though, as two-run homer in the top of the third from Tanner Murray leveled the score and a sacrifice fly fro, Lenyn Sosa gave the White Sox the lead. An Edgar Quero single extended their lead even further, putting the Dodgers at a two-run deficit by the end of the half inning.
L.A. didn’t just sit back, with Teoscar Hernandez plating Will Smith with a grounder to third in the bottom of the inning before hitting a solo homer to left center two innings later to even the scores once again.
The White Sox took the lead back in the top of the sixth through Curtis Mead’s solo homer off of Ben Casparius, but the Dodgers more than made up for it in the bottom of the sixth. Keston Hiura and Hyeseong Kim crushed back-to-back homers to give L.A. a one-run lead, then Josue De Paula hit an RBI single later in the inning to extend the Dodgers’ lead to two.
Chicago pulled one back in the top of the eighth for the White Sox with an RBI triple — his first hit of the spring — but Kyle Hurt and Jordan Weems managed to keep the White Sox quiet for the remainder of the game.
The win brings the Dodgers’ record to 6-0, and they stand as the only team in both the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League yet to lose a game.
The Dodgers jump straight back into action Friday, facing off against the San Francisco Giants on the road at 12:05 p.m. PT.
