Dodgers enter rubber game 22-14

The Dodgers-Houston series mattered because it looked like a clean measuring-stick set — a contender with stars everywhere against an Astros team already trying to stop an early slide. But by Wednesday, May 6, the story had flipped. Los Angeles didn’t enter the rubber game at 22-14 and stumble. It won the rubber game, 12-2, and pushed its record to 23-14 while Houston fell to 15-23. ### What actually happened Wednesday? Los Angeles broke the game open early and never really let Houston breathe. The Dodgers scored 12 runs on 14 hits, while the Astros managed just five hits. Andy Pages was the headliner — three home runs and six RBI — in the kind of night that turns a normal series win into a statement. ### Why was the scoring so weird? Because the Dodgers’ first three runs came home on wild pitches. That is not a typo. MLB’s game story flagged it as the first time a team scored its first three runs that way since the 1969 Phillies. Then Pages added a three-run homer in the third, and the game went from strange to lopsided fast. ### Who gave them the jolt? Pages did — overwhelmingly. He came into the day already swinging well, then turned the finale into his personal breakout showcase. Three homers in one game is rare enough. Doing it in a road rubber game against Houston makes it feel bigger, because it answered the “who besides the megastars?” question in a loud way. ### What about Shohei Ohtani? The context here was a little messy. On Tuesday, May 5, Houston beat Los Angeles 2-1 and spoiled a strong Ohtani start, which fed the idea that the Dodgers weren’t cashing in enough when their top-end pitching delivered. Wednesday cut against that. Ohtani had twotani got the night before. ### Did Glasnow dominate too? Not in the “complete shutdown”