Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Dodgers: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 2 |
The Story
The Boston Red Sox silenced a Dodger Stadium crowd that entered the night with considerable confidence, rolling to a 9-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 31, 2026, at UNIQLO Field. The DiamondIQ model had assigned the Dodgers a 63 percent pre-game win probability, but Boston dismantled that projection methodically, holding Los Angeles scoreless through the first three innings before the game's defining sequences unfolded in the fifth and seventh.
The contest's largest single swing belonged to Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, whose fifth-inning home run off Jovani Morán shifted win probability 27.0 percent in Los Angeles's favor and briefly made the 4-1 deficit feel surmountable after a three-run frame put the Dodgers on the board. That momentum, however, evaporated almost immediately. In the top of the seventh, with Cole Irvin on the mound for Los Angeles, the Red Sox erupted for a five-run inning that effectively ended the game. Ceddanne Rafaela's home run was the centerpiece, adding 24.8 percent win probability for Boston, and Andruw Monasterio followed with a double worth an additional 16.6 percent. Two costly Dodgers errors, which contributed to Boston's errorless 12-hit night by contrast, kept the inning alive. A Masataka Yoshida fielding error in the third had already added 10.5 percent to Boston's win probability against Irvin, who was the central figure in Los Angeles's unraveling.
On the pitching side, Brayan Bello was Boston's most valuable arm by the DiamondIQ model's estimate, contributing plus-12.9 percent win probability, while Ranger Suarez added plus-8.1 percent in relief despite surrendering Freddie Freeman's fourth-inning RBI single, which had pushed a plus-8.3 percent swing for Los Angeles. Freeman finished as the Dodgers' top batter by WPA at plus-13.4 percent, but Ohtani's plus-30.9 percent and Rafaela's plus-27.9 percent told the story of a night when Boston's offensive firepower ultimately overwhelmed everything Los Angeles could muster.