LOS ANGELES _ After more than five hours of baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Chris Hatcher gave up a two-run double to Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jonathan Schoop, which sent the Dodgers to a 6-4 defeat in 14 innings.
The Dodgers (48-39) missed a chance to capture a series over the leaders of the American League East. The team needed to use eight relievers as the lineup failed to vanquish the Baltimore bullpen.
The final innings of regulation were agonizing for the Dodgers offense. The Dodgers left the bases loaded in the seventh and again in the eighth. Orioles reliever Dylan Bundy mowed through Trayce Thompson and Howie Kendrick to escape the seventh. Brad Brach, recently named to the All-Star team, popped up Justin Turner to strand three runners in the next inning.
In the 11th, after Chase Utley hit the fifth of his six hits in the game and a single by Turner, Adrian Gonzalez grounded into a double play. The Orioles grew desperate enough to test the arm of Yasiel Puig in the 13th. Puig relayed with Utley to cut down Joey Rickard for the last out of the inning.
Turner woke up a sleepy crowd in the first inning. With Utley at first, Turner watched from the on-deck circle as Orioles starter Kevin Gausman fooled Corey Seager with a series of split-fingered fastballs. Turner did not provide Gausman a chance to flash his off-speed pitches.
Gausman tried to drive a 1-0 fastball past Turner's knees. Turner elevated the 93-mph pitch over the left-field fence for his 12th home run of the season.
Seager and Turner were involved in a more ignominious play in the next inning. A popup by outfielder Mark Trumbo rose above shallow left field. Both Seager and Turner squinted into the sunlight. Turner pulled off to give Seager room. At the last second, Seager crouched in the grass as the ball fell behind him.
The miscommunication led to a run. Two batters later, shortstop Ryan Flaherty stroked a double into right. The Orioles tied the score in the third, when outfielder Adam Jones scored from third base as the Dodgers turned a double play.
Trumbo would strike the ball with more force in his next two at-bats. Dodgers starter Bud Norris could not blame his defenders for Baltimore capturing the lead in the fourth. Trumbo powered a 94-mph fastball over the right-field fence.
The seesaw tipped back into the Dodgers' favor in the fifth. Utley ripped a one-out double. Seager walked. Gonzalez sent a 97-mph fastball into center field. The single splashed in front of Jones as he dove. Running with the pitch, Seager chugged home from first behind Utley.
Baltimore tied the score in brutal fashion. Norris exited after five innings of three-run baseball, a retreat back to earth after his debut of six scoreless innings over the weekend. In came Casey Fien. Trumbo walloped the second pitch he saw, a slider at the waist, for his second homer of the afternoon.
