Skubal left trailing 3-2 in the back-to-back Cy Young Award winner's decent, if unspectacular, first start in the home whites. The fireworks came instead from the Dodgers' slumbering offense, which awoke with Max Muncy's three-run double and Freddie Freeman's RBI single after Skubal departed. Although he struck out six, Skubal didn't live up to manager Dave Roberts' pregame prediction of "an electric night" for the vaunted left-hander and his slumping club, which had lost eight of nine heading into this homestand. When Skubal was announced in the starting lineup for the first time, Dodgers fans responded with loud cheers and a serenade of "Skuuuuuu!" "Tarik Skubal — it's nice to have him on our mound," said a grinning Freeman, who drove in Shohei Ohtani with the go-ahead run.