\n<\/p>\n
The Dodgers talk up Shohei Ohtani<\/a> as a Cy Young award contender, and Ohtani has given up one run all season. He pitched six shutout innings here Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the pitcher who delivered the best start of this series against the San Francisco Giants, and the one that stood tall between the Giants and what would have been a humiliating sweep, was Tyler Glasnow<\/a>.<\/p>\n That was one storyline from an eventful afternoon at the ballpark and, for the Dodgers, a sorely needed 3-0 victory<\/a> on a day they found themselves a new cleanup hitter, a new closer \u2014 and on a day a Giants player blasted a Dodgers player for making a \u201cdirty\u201d play.<\/p>\n Nothing like a little bad blood to breathe a little life into a languishing rivalry.<\/p>\n The cleanup hitter: Kyle Tucker<\/a>, dropped from second to fourth in the lineup after his average had fallen to .233, ignited a two-run rally in the fourth inning with a double and delivered his first two-hit game in 17 days.<\/p>\n The closer: Tanner Scott<\/a>, just as the Dodgers planned last year. After Glasnow pitched eight shutout innings and gave up one hit, Scott got the first save situation since the Dodgers lost closer Edwin D\u00edaz to elbow surgery<\/a>. Scott has a 0.84 ERA this season, including the perfect ninth inning he worked Thursday for the first of what might be quite a few saves this season.<\/p>\n The Dodgers (17-8), remember, signed him for $72 million as their closer last season, but he lost his job and did not pitch in the playoffs.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was terrible,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I washed it away.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cdirty\u201d play was the second of two acts in a sixth-inning drama.<\/p>\n