THE GAME: Donovan Solano’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Dodgers to a 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday night before an announced crowd of 13,226 at Camelback Ranch.
PITCHING REPORT: Rich Hill retired 12 of the 13 batters he faced in his second Cactus League start. … Hill completed four innings, striking out four batters, and allowed only an unearned run in the first inning. … Pedro Baez relieved Hill and allowed three runs, on four singles and a walk, in two-thirds of an inning. … He was booed by a portion of the crowd. … J.T. Chargois threw a scoreless sixth inning. … Yimi Garcia allowed two hits and a run in two-thirds of an inning. … Walker Buehler struck out five of the seven batters he faced in his Cactus League debut, a scoreless two-inning outing against the bottom of the Cubs’ travel roster. … His fastball touched 96-99 mph on the Camelback Ranch radar gun.
HITTING REPORT: With the Dodgers trailing 5-2, Kiké Hernandez (1 for 2, walk) hit a three-run home run against Cubs pitcher Dillon Maples in the seventh inning. … Hernandez’s second home run of the spring was an opposite-field blast that cleared the 380-foot marker in right field. … Chris Taylor (2 for 3) and Andrew Toles (1 for 3) hit back-to-back doubles to the outfield gaps to lead off the first inning. … Toles scored when Yasiel Puig (1 for 2) shot a ground ball through a drawn-in infield, giving the Dodgers an early 2-1 lead. … Joc Pederson (1 for 3) barely missed a home run when Cubs left fielder Peter Bourjos tracked down a fly ball just in front of the wall on the run.
DEFENSE REPORT: The Cubs got lucky in the first inning when Peter Bourjos beat out a weakly hit ground ball to shortstop Kiké Hernandez. Hill picked Bourjos off first base, but Bourjos reached second when Cody Bellinger’s throw was wide of the base. Hernandez dove to catch the throw, then tried flipping the ball to second baseman Jake Peter, who wasn’t watching. Bourjos reached third and scored on a sacrifice fly.
UP NEXT: The Dodgers will send left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu to the mound against the Colorado Rockies (RHP German Marquez) on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Salt River Fields (SNLA; 570-AM).