Skubal strikes out 10 as Dodgers blank Giants 2-0

Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages hit solo home runs in the second inning, and Tarik Skubal made those two runs enough as the Dodgers beat the Giants 2-0 in San Francisco on Friday night. The official MLB game feed lists the final as a three-hit shutout for Los Angeles. Skubal worked seven scoreless innings, allowed all three hits and struck out 10. MLB's same-game video of his outing shows the seven-inning performance.

The Dodgers' offense did its scoring early. Hernández opened the second with a home run to left, his 16th of the season. After a Max Muncy lineout, Pages sent another ball over the left-field wall for his 22nd. The homers were separate at-bats rather than a consecutive pair, but together they put the Dodgers up 2-0 before San Francisco had taken its second turn at the plate. No other run scored the rest of the night.

Skubal protected the lead by keeping the Giants off the scoreboard through seven. MLB's box score gives him 10 strikeouts and no walks over those innings. He also held San Francisco to three hits, leaving few chances for the home side to build a rally. The Giants were not shut out because of a lack of opportunities on a single pitch; they simply could not string enough baserunners together against the Dodgers' pitching staff.

Tanner Scott followed with a hitless eighth inning and two strikeouts. Roki Sasaki then handled a hitless ninth with two more strikeouts, according to the official pitching lines. That sequence left the Giants with three hits in the game and gave the Dodgers a 14-strikeout shutout. Los Angeles finished with seven hits, three from catcher Will Smith and two from Pages. San Francisco's pitchers held the visitors scoreless after the second, yet the early home runs stood up all night.

For the Dodgers, the result was a road win built around a starting pitcher controlling most of the game and a bullpen that did not reopen it. For San Francisco, it was a narrow defeat in which the two solo shots were the only scoring plays. The completed MLB content feed identifies video from this exact game, while the play log and box score establish the final score and player lines.