Mookie Betts homered twice, including his 53rd career leadoff homer, and Josue De Paula hit a tiebreaking double to help the Los Angeles Dodgers produce an 8-2 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Friday night.

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Betts also hit one of Los Angeles’ four eighth-inning homers as the Dodgers socked five overall while winning for the 12th time in the 15 games. Max Muncy and Kyle Tucker hit back-to-back homers in the eighth, and Betts and Will Smith repeated the feat later in the frame.

Tyler Glasnow struck out a season-high 10 in six innings for Los Angeles (94-60), which trails the Milwaukee Brewers (96-58) by two games in the battle for the major leagues’ best record.

Betts is tied with Hall of Famer Craig Biggio for the fourth-most leadoff homers all-time and is one behind third-place Alfonso Soriano. Betts has hit 33 for the Dodgers after producing 20 for the Boston Red Sox.

Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson tops the list with 81, and George Springer is second with 65.

Glasnow (5-1) gave up two runs, three hits and two walks. He is 7-1 in 10 career appearances (nine starts) against San Francisco.

Jung Hoo Lee homered and Jonah Cox had an RBI single as the Giants (64-90) fell for the fifth time in seven games.

With the score 2-2, Tucker walked to start the bottom of the sixth before Jason Foley (3-2) retired the next two batters. De Paula then laced a double into the right-center-field gap to put the Dodgers in front.

Los Angeles later played Home Run Derby off Giants left-hander Philip Abner in the eighth.

Muncy hit the third pitch of the inning over the wall in right-center. Two pitches later, Tucker also cleared the right-center fence to give Los Angeles a three-run lead.

Two outs later, De Paula walked before Betts homered to left-center, making it 7-2. Smith hit the second pitch in his at-bat over the wall in center.

Cesar Perdomo started for the Giants and gave up two runs and six hits over 4 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out one.

Betts hit Perdomo’s second pitch of the game over the fence in left-center to get the Dodgers started.

The Giants tied it in the second when Lee slammed a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right.

San Francisco moved ahead in the third as Scott Bandura singled and stole second to start the inning. There were two on and two outs later in the inning when Cox hit an RBI single to left.

In the fifth, De Paula and Betts singled to start the inning. One out later, Teoscar Hernandez delivered a single to right to tie it at 2.

Padres blast
Marlins to draw even in WC race

Ty France clouted a three-run homer to cap a six-run fifth inning Friday night as the San Diego Padres stopped the visiting Miami Marlins 8-2 to forge a three-way tie atop the National League’s wild-card standings.

Winning for the 11th time in 12 games, San Diego (85-69) pulled even with the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia, who both lost earlier Friday night. The Padres’ magic number for clinching a playoff spot dropped to five.

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Nick Pivetta (3-2) earned the win by working the first five innings, yielding four hits and a run with a walk and four strikeouts. Marlins reliever Cade Gibson (5-2) was tagged with the loss after yielding the first two runs in the game-changing fifth.

Xander Bogaerts led off with a double and reached third on Jake Cronenworth’s single. Samad Taylor greeted reliever Tyler Zuber with a bunt single to fill the bases. After Ethan Salas’ shallow fly ball netted Zuber an out, Fernando Tatis Jr. tied the game with an RBI single to right.

Dustin Harris put San Diego ahead to stay with a two-run single up the middle. After Manny Machado lined out, France jacked a hanging sweeper an estimated 388 feet to left for his 21st homer, a career high.

All that happened after Miami starter Tyler Phillips worked 3 2/3 scoreless innings, permitting only two hits and a walk while fanning three. He left with Miami holding a 1-0 edge after Agustin Ramirez lined a one-out homer to left in the third, his fifth.

The Marlins’ other run came in the eighth via a two-out RBI single by Javier Sanoja that scored Otto Lopez, who doubled to left with one out. Ramirez collected three of their 10 hits, while Sanoja and Lopez had two each.

San Diego tacked on two more runs in its half of the eighth. Jackson Merrill led off by ripping his 26th homer of the year an estimated 432 feet to right. Three more singles, the last by Taylor, brought in Bogaerts.

Harris, France, Bogaerts, Cronenworth and Taylor each bagged two of the Padres’ 12 hits.

Prielipp fires 7 strong innings as Twins blank Angels

Connor Prielipp allowed two hits over a career-high seven innings and fellow rookie Walker Jenkins went 3-for-4 with a home run as the Minnesota Twins registered a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday in Anaheim, Calif.

Prielipp (6-7) walked two and struck out eight. He left after throwing 92 pitches, 60 for strikes. Travis Adams pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning to pick up his third save.

Jenkins, who began his career going 4-for-45, homered for the second straight game on his sixth consecutive hit in the series. Brooks Lee added two hits and a run for Minnesota (72-82), which evened the four-game series at one win apiece.

Jose Siri had two hits for Los Angeles (59-95). Grayson Rodriguez (4-8) gave up three runs on eight hits with no walks in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out four and threw 91 pitches, with 66 going for strikes.

Minnesota jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Luke Keaschall was hit by a pitch to start the game and advanced to third on a single by Lee. Kody Clemens then hit into a fielder’s choice with Keaschall getting thrown at home following a lengthy rundown that allowed Lee and Clemens to advance to second and third.

Ryan Jeffers followed with a sacrifice fly to drive in Lee, and Josh Bell drove in Clemens with a single to center.

Los Angeles nearly cut the lead in half in the sixth inning when Zach Neto led off with a long drive to left, but Emmanuel Rodriguez jumped up at the fence to rob him of a home run.

Jenkins then made it 3-0 in the seventh when he lined his third home run 357 feet off the foul pole netting in right.

The Angels loaded the bases with no outs against reliever Tommy Nance in the eighth on back-to-back singles by Christian Moore, snapping an 0-for-21 drought, and Wade Meckler and a walk to Neto. But Nance got out of the jam with consecutive strikeouts of Mike Trout and pinch hitter Josh Lowe followed by a lineout to left by Vaughn Grissom.

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