TLDR: Tarik Skubal never threw a pitch, and the Dodgers still had enough arms to sweep a Giants club with nothing left to play for.
Los Angeles put Jack Dreyer on the mound instead of Skubal, who went on the bereavement list Sunday, and the plan was a bullpen game from the jump. Dreyer opened and lasted just 1 inning, allowing a run on a walk and a throwing error before Dave Roberts turned it over.
The Dodgers swept the Giants 3-1 in a bullpen game, with Tarik Skubal scratched to the bereavement list and Emmet Sheehan filling in for 5.1 scoreless innings behind opener Jack Dreyer. Tommy Edman's 6th-inning homer tied it, and RBI hits from Kiké Hernández and Max Muncy put it away against a Giants lineup missing Bryce Eldridge and most of its infield.
+Sheehan's recall paid off: 5.1 scoreless, 9 K in relief
+Edman, Hernandez and Muncy each drove in a run
+Bullpen (Sheehan, Bubic, Stewart, Scott) allowed just 1 hit total
−Dreyer's opener stint lasted 1 inning, allowed the game's first run
−Needed a bullpen game after Skubal's bereavement scratch
That's when Emmet Sheehan, recalled specifically for this game, took command — 5.1 scoreless innings, 1 hit, 9 strikeouts. San Francisco actually got a real start out of Matt Wilkinson, who the preview flagged as unannounced: he went 5 innings, allowed 3 hits and struck out 6 without giving up a run. Bryce Eldridge, the one Giants bat that had been heating up, wasn't in the lineup at all — the concussion protocol from Saturday kept him out.
Yunior Marte
(0-1)·4.66 ERA
Aug 29 vs Diamondbacks
ND
4.2IP
1ER
3K
2BB
76P
09/19 Lineup
Tarik Skubal
(11-7)·2.85 ERA
Sep 14 @ Reds
W
7.0IP
0ER
9K
1BB
90P
09/19 Lineup
Tommy Edman tied it with a solo homer in the 6th, and the Dodgers took it from there. Kiké Hernández doubled in the go-ahead run in the 7th, Max Muncy added a bloop RBI single in the 8th, and Kris Bubic, Brock Stewart and Tanner Scott closed it out without incident.
San Francisco's bullpen couldn't hold the line once Wilkinson left. C. Seymour served up Edman's homer in relief, and Sam Hentges took the loss after allowing 3 hits and a run in just 1/3 of an inning. The Giants finished with 2 hits total for the game — the same lineup missing Eldridge, Rafael Devers and Willy Adames from the middle of the order all night.
The win completed a 3-game sweep, San Francisco's first since 2024, and kept the Dodgers rolling toward playoff seeding rather than just the division banner they already have. The Polymarket chat ran well above a typical MLB night — the room's busiest stretch came late, right as the game flipped in the 7th and 8th — and even in a game that meant little for the standings, the crowd stuck around for the finish.
