Oklahoma City gives Redbirds 3rd straight loss

Dodgers cruise with three home runs

DODGERS 8, REDBIRDS 4

Oklahoma City hit three homers Thursday night to win their third straight game over the Redbirds as the Dodgers took an 8-4 victory at AutoZone Park.

The Dodgers have homered eight times through the first three games of the series.

Memphis outfielder Tommy Pham homered for the second day in a row, a tying two-run blast in the fifth inning. Twelve of Pham’s 25 hits this season have gone for extra bases.

Oklahoma City took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as Darnell Sweeney led off the game with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Austin Barnes. The Dodgers made it 3-2 in the top of the second, but Memphis tied it in the bottom. Pham singled, then scored on Jacob Wilson’s single to center. Two batters later, Matt Williams drove in Wilson on a double to left.

Sweeney doubled and scored Oklahoma City’s next run for a 4-2 lead in the fifth, before he homered to make it 5-2 in the sixth.

In the seventh, the Dodgers got a homer from Scott Schebler, then back-to-back homers from Darwin Barney and Corey Seager.

Redbirds starter John Gast yielded eight runs — six earned — on six hits.

Tonight at AutoZone Park, Memphis will try to avoid its first four-game series sweep since June 14-17, 2013, at Albuquerque. A fireworks display will follow the game.