Dodgers have no answer for ace Alcantara

MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara bounced back from his shortest outing of the season by pitching a six-hitter Saturday to lead Miami past the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1.

After allowing a season-high six runs in 3⅔ innings against the Dodgers on Aug. 21, Alcantara (12-6) limited the National League West leaders to Mookie Betts’ home run in the third. The All-star right-hander struck out 10 and walked two in his seventh complete game and majors-best fourth in 2022, lowering his season ERA to 2.13.

Los Angeles threatened in the ninth with one-out singles by Freddie Freeman and Will Smith. Justin Turner walked with two outs before Alcantara retired Bishop Gorman product Joey Gallo on a grounder to first.

Rookie Jerar Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth. Joey Wendle and Jon Berti had reached on two-out infield singles against Dodgers starter Dustin May (1-1), and Encarnacion followed with a grounder to left that scored Wendle.

May’s outing ended after six innings. In his second start since returning from a 14-month absence because of elbow surgery, the righthander allowed two runs on five hits and one walk while striking out four.

Betts put the Dodgers up 1-0 with his third homer of the series. The Marlins tied it on Brian Anderson’s RBI single in the fourth.

Anderson hit a liner to left-center and successfully beat Gallo’s throw to second. But second baseman Chris Taylor kept the tag as Anderson’s foot slid off the bag, prompting second-base umpire D.J. Reyburn to call Anderson out. Anderson argued the reversal, and Reyburn ejected him.

■ Orioles 3, Astros 1: At Houston, Anthony Santander and Austin Hays homered in the third to back UNLV product Dean Kremer (6-4), who allowed one run in a career-high 7⅔ innings.

■ Tigers 11, Rangers 2: At Arlington, Texas, Javier Baez hit an RBI single in each of the first two innings to back winner Eduardo Rodriguez (3-3), who allowed one run in six innings.

■ Padres 4, Royals 3: At Kansas City, Mo., Wil Myers hit a two-run homer to back Yu Darvish (11-7), who recovered from Kansas City’s three-run first to pitch seven innings.

■ Red Sox 5, Rays 1: At Boston, J.D. Martinez and Bobby Dalbec each had a two-run single in the first to back Rich Hill (6-5), who struck out 11 in seven shutout innings.

■ Angels 2, Blue Jays 0: At Toronto, Andrew Velazquez homered to back Shohei Ohtani (11-8), who allowed two hits while striking out nine in seven shutout innings.

■ Brewers 7, Cubs 0: At Milwaukee, Christian Yelich went 4-for-5 with a three-run homer to back Brandon Woodruff, who struck out 10 in six shutout innings.

■ Diamondbacks 10, White Sox 5: At Chicago, Geraldo Perdomo and Carson Kelly each drove in three runs for Arizona. Chicago lost for the eighth time in 10 games.

■ Cardinals 6, Braves 5: At St. Louis, Corey Dickerson hit tying RBI infield single in the ninth before Tyler O’neill drew a walk-off, bases-loaded walk.

■ Mets 3, Rockies 0: At New York, Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff homer and an RBI double to back David Peterson (7-3), who pitched six shutout innings.

■ Phillies 6, Pirates 0: At Philadelphia, Kyle Gibson (9-5) struck out nine in seven shutout innings for Philadelphia in its sixth straight win.

■ Reds 6, Nationals 2: At Washington, T.J. Friedl’s tiebreaking three-run shot in the sixth was one of Cincinnati’s three homers.

Michael Laughlin The Associated Press Max Muncy swings through a pitch for one of the Dodgers’ 10 strikeouts against Sandy Alcantara, who notched a 111-pitch six-hitter Saturday night in the Marlins’ 2-1 home win.