With 20 regular-season games remaining for the Dodgers in 2024, utility infielder/outfielder Gavin Lux is slashing a respectable .251/.313/.393/.706, with 10 home runs.

However, the 26-year-old Kenosha, WI native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2016 out of Indian Trail High School in Kenosha has driven in 46 runs in the 121 games in which he has appeared this season, of which several were the eventual game-winner.

Among Lux’s eventual game-winning RBIs was his RBI sacrifice fly to left field with one out in the bottom of the first inning to drive in the Dodgers third run of the game in their eventual 7-2 win over the AL Central first-place Cleveland Guardians in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 48,690 on Saturday evening.

“Fortunately, that first inning was the difference in the ballgame. We got to the starter (Guardians right-hander Gavin Williams), saw a lot of different arms in the pen, and have a good chance to win tomorrow,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said postgame of the six pitchers used by Cleveland on Saturday.

A good chance indeed.

Play Ball!

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