Andy Pages Torches Astros for 3 HRs and 6 RBIs as Dodgers Roll 12-2 — and Glasnow's Back is a Problem

Andy Pages went dormant for 20 games and then detonated. As ESPN reported, the Dodgers outfielder set career highs with three home runs and six RBI Wednesday in a 12-2 demolition of the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park — the kind of box score that would dominate the headline cycle if Tyler Glasnow hadn't walked off the mound clutching his lower back before the second inning even began.

Pages did the bulk of his damage against Lance McCullers Jr., launching a three-run shot in a five-run third inning that turned a tight game into a rout. He added a two-run blast in the fifth off Jason Alexander, and capped the night with a solo homer in the ninth off catcher César Salazar, who was pressed into mound duty with Houston's bullpen completely spent. Pages became the first Dodger since Ohtani in September 2024 to put up a 3-HR, 6-RBI line in a single game — a genuinely rare output from a player who had been a ghost at the plate for nearly three weeks. McCullers, for his part, was a disaster: four hits, six runs, three wild pitches, and only 39 of 70 pitches finding the zone across 2⅔ innings.

Shohei Ohtani's contribution is the other thread worth pulling. He snapped an 0-for-18 skid — the second-longest hitless stretch of his career — with a double in the third and an RBI single in the fifth. Two hits doesn't erase weeks of silence, but it matters for how books price his lines going forward. Meanwhile, Glasnow's exit looms large: he allowed a leadoff homer to Brice Matthews, struck out Yordan Alvarez for career punchout No. 1,000, then came out to warm up for the second and couldn't finish the session. An MRI is scheduled. Los Angeles deployed six relievers to cover the remaining eight innings and held Houston to one run after Glasnow left — credit to the depth, but this rotation situation just became significantly murkier.

The Glasnow injury is where the betting market needs to recalibrate fast. His strikeout props have been one of the more reliable bets in the NL — he's been posting elite K rates when healthy. With a back MRI pending, any upcoming starts should be treated as question marks, and his K line for his next scheduled outing is a hard fade until the imaging comes back clean. On the team total front, the Dodgers' offense clearly has the ceiling even with rotation uncertainty; Los Angeles has now scored 12 runs in a game where their starter lasted one inning. That bullpen depth is real, and it keeps their run-scoring floor elevated.

For the Astros, the damage goes beyond the final score. McCullers is now 2-3 with a command profile that looks increasingly fragile — three wild pitches in under three innings isn't a blip, it's a pattern. Houston's team totals deserve a downward look in any matchup where McCullers starts until he can demonstrate he's locating his curveball again. And with Ohtani shaking loose, expect the market to overcorrect on his hit and total-bases props in the next series — sharp money will likely fade the inflated line that follows a slump-breaker.