LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers won Wednesday's game, won the three-game series, and surely won the Twins' respect for the way they came from behind to earn their two victories.
But in a sense, both teams took losses in the finale.
Nick Gordon fouled a pitch off his right shin during his fifth-inning at-bat, and X-rays showed he fractured the bone. Jorge Polanco felt his left hamstring tighten as he ran to first base in the fourth inning, and it nagged him from that point on. Joey Gallo fouled a pitch off his right leg in the ninth, and Ryan Jeffers had to finish his at-bat, and the game, with a strikeout.
And Dodgers starter Dustin May, finally established in the Los Angeles rotation, left after one inning for an ominous reason: pain in his pitching elbow.
"It's been awhile since I've seen a game like that," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of the body count. "This was a tough one for both sides."
Gordon will be placed on the injured list before Friday night's game in Anaheim, and Polanco, given the Twins' special care to manage his recovery from a knee injury, figures to join him, though he'll be examined again before that becomes official.
And Gallo?
"I would think, as of right now, I'm going to try to play no matter what," the slugger said, noting that an X-ray found only a bruise. "Just going to have to get a longer shin guard, for sure. I should be fine."