Urías, Trea help Dodgers regain West tie

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Dodgers celebrated a couple of Sweet 16s on Saturday and toasted moving back into a first-place tie in the NL West.

Trea Turner’s 16th career leadoff home run got the Dodgers off and running, and Julio Urías had eight strikeouts and pitched into the sixth inning for his Majors-best 16th win in a 6-1 win over the Giants in front of a sellout crowd at Oracle Park on Saturday night.

That sets up a huge showdown Sunday in the final matchup of the season between the two playoff contenders that will leave one team with the outright division lead with 25 games remaining.

“You look at our career numbers individually and what we’re capable of when you get a lot of guys in the lineup that can get on base and drive the baseball at the same time. Usually we put a lot of runs up,” Turner said. “When you play good teams, you’re going to face good pitching and sometimes it doesn’t go your way. But today was a picture of what we can do the rest of the year.”

Turner, whose throwing error in the 11th inning allowed the winning run to score for San Francisco on Friday, made up for the gaffe when he drilled the sixth pitch from Giants opener Jay Jackson to straightaway center and extended his hitting streak to 11 games. Austin Slater jumped for the ball but crashed into the fence and came up empty as Turner rounded the bases.

“I saw six sliders in a row,” Turner said of his home run. “It doesn’t matter if I made five errors yesterday, I had five strikeouts or if I hit five home runs. It doesn’t matter. For me I try to move on as quick as possible whether it’s good or bad.”

After Jackson issued consecutive one-out walks to Mookie Betts and Justin Turner, Corey Seager hit a sacrifice fly and AJ Pollock followed with an RBI double.

The Dodgers went up 4-1 in the sixth on an error, wild pitch and balk. Seager homered off Sammy Long in the ninth after going 4-for-5 on Friday.

With the offense in sync early, it came down to pitching for Los Angeles.

A day after using every available reliever he had, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was able to give most of his bullpen some needed rest thanks to Urías’ strong outing.

Urías hasn’t made it past the sixth inning in any of his last seven starts but threw 96 pitches and earned his seventh straight win to improve to 16-3. The left-hander allowed eight hits in 5 2/3 innings, didn’t walk a batter and pitched around traffic much of the evening.

“The bar has been raised for Julio,” Roberts said. “The way he goes deep in the game, the expectation to win every time he takes the mound, being able to navigate and minimize damage ... tonight he did that. When you don’t have everything working, to go out there and punch out eight and walk none is pretty impressive. This is where Julio has raised the bar for himself and this is what we expect of him.”

Urías struck out Brandon Belt with two on to end the first, got Evan Longoria to foul out with a runner on second in the third, retired pinch-hitter Tommy La Stella on an inning-ending popup with two on in the fourth, then got Slater and Longoria to ground out to end the fifth with a runner at second.

“I just tried to focus on making good pitches and sticking to the game plan,” Urías said through an interpreter. “They had good at-bats and put me in those situations but I tried to mix it up and tried to change it up.”

The Dodgers also got strong relief. Alex Vesia, Phil Bickford, Blake Treinen and Brusdar Graterol combined for 3 1/3 scoreless innings of one-hit ball.

“It’s executing pitches when they need to make pitches,” Roberts said. “Where we’ve been in this little funk offensively, to be able to prevent runs has been the key to success so far.”