Ha-Seong Kim hit a walk-off single to help lift the Atlanta Braves to a 6-5 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.
Facing Tanner Scott (1-5), Kim, who was 5-for-76 (.066) at the plate entering his first at-bat since Aug. 15, laced his biggest hit of the season for the Braves, who have won three straight and clinched the season series over Los Angeles.
Lane Thomas scored the game-winning run after reaching on a two-out double.
Victor Mederos (3-1) struck out two in a scoreless top of the ninth for the Braves. Drake Baldwin and Sean Murphy both had three hits in the win.
Making just his third start of the season, AJ Smith-Shawver threw five innings of three-run, five-hit ball while striking out three and walking three for Atlanta.
Dodgers starter Roki Sasaki allowed four runs on six hits in 3 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked two before exiting in the fourth inning with a blister on his middle finger.
Atlanta struck first on Matt Olson’s solo homer in the bottom of the first.
In the top of the second, Tommy Edman doubled and scored on Hunter Feduccia’s two-out single to left-center.
The Dodgers took a 3-1 lead in the third, as Freddie Freeman doubled and scored on Edman’s two-run homer.
Austin Riley drove in the second Atlanta run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Murphy then doubled and Sasaki exited with the injury. Edgardo Henriquez entered and allowed Baldwin’s two-run double which gave the Braves a 4-3 edge.
Atlanta doubled the margin in the sixth as Murphy connected on his first homer of the season.
Dylan Lee started the seventh for Atlanta on the mound. The left-hander allowed Shohei Ohtani’s leadoff double, before Freeman and Mookie Betts singled to pull the Dodgers within one.
After walking Max Muncy to load the bases, Lee was lifted for Didier Fuentes, who walked Edman to tie the game at 5.
Fuentes retired Kyle Tucker and got Alek Thomas to ground into an inning-ending double play.
Both teams wasted prime scoring opportunities in the eighth. After Teoscar Hernandez’s infield single and a pair of two-out walks loaded the bases, Fuentes struck out Muncy after a nine-pitch battle.
Atlanta put runners on second and third with no outs after Baldwin’s second double, but a groundout and a 6-4-3 double play around an intentional walk kept the game level.
