Dodgers lean on big inning to defeat Phillies and take 2-0 NLDS lead
Philadelphia – It was October baseball par excellence.
Two starting launchers overlooking two helpless alignments.
A competition with a low score in which each stranded Basennerner looked like a missed monumental occasion.
A matter of mass of the nails decided by a team taking a rare chance of score, and the other does not do the same.
In the end of the sixth round of match 2 of the series of the national league division on Monday, the Philadelphia Phillies had two on board with a withdrawal, but came empty.
During the next half-manche, the Dodgers were faced with the same situation, but left with four points.
It was the difference in the 4-3 victory of the Dodgers at the Citizens Bank Park, giving them an advance of 2-0 commander in a series of five best who will pass at the Dodger stadium for match 3 Wednesday.
The Dodgers Blake Snell launcher delivers during the second round on Monday against the Phillies.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
For most of Monday evening, a crowd of 45,653 in the south of Philadelphia impatiently sat down, while waiting for the dam to break in an old -fashioned launcher duel.
On the one hand, Blake Snell sprinkled his rapid ball into the area and in both parts of the plate, giving the phillies little to strike while installing them to stretch in his dominant arsenal of secondary weapons. In four rounds, he withdrew 12 threads from the 14 with only two goals on shot. He had obtained puffs on each of the first non-bullets he launched. And not before there were two withdrawals in the fifth, he abandoned his first blow.
In front of him, Jesús Luzardo was just as effective. After failing the runners in the corners in the first, the left -hander locked himself up and made the dodgers silly with a dam of sweepers and changes that plunged under the area. Where he needed 24 locations in the first, he finished the next five on 48 throws. Meanwhile, he retired 17 in a row and left only two bullets to leave the inner field.
Finally, at the bottom of the sixth, the story began to change.
The Phillies generated the first great opportunity of the game, after Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber entered consecutive blows against Snell with a withdrawal. It was the first time all night that their alignment spent a runner first. And it happened while the double MVP Bryce Harper came to walk through the plate.
Snell’s attack plan against Harper was simple. His first throw was a cursor in dirt. His next one was another in the Harper zone defeated. Two other cursors followed, Harper moving the first and the fouling of the next. Then, after a hand change curve ball was buried in front of the plate, Snell returned to the cursor once again. He passed under the Harper swing for a stick withdrawn. Citizens Bank Park groans.
The round ended a striker later, when Alec Bohm hunted a change of 2 and 0 and hit a floor ball at the third base. Miguel Rojas aligned it behind the bag, timed the speedy Bohm in the first time, and decided to make the short – although risky – instead, sprinting to the third base and beating Turner to the bag with a slide head first.
It ended the Channel. This time, frustrated hoots have rained stands.
A few minutes later, the dodgers would be in front. Unlike the phillies, they did not waste their only racing opportunity.
Teoscar Hernández led the top of the seventh with a simple. Freddie Freeman followed with an online journey to Nick Castellanos with a low -field (which was attracted by the programming of the Phillies after an injury to Harrison Bader in match 1) on the right, putting on his horse to give a double.
This eliminated Luzardo from the game. And in a decision that would soon be in mind, the Phillies manager, Rob Thompson, opted for the right -handers Orion Kerkering instead of Jhoan Duran.
Kerkering obtained a quick, removing Tommy Edman.
But then Kiké Hernández hit a Turner Cue-Ball group at the stop stop. After a slight hesitation, Teoscar Hernández separated for the house. While Turner aligned the ball and pulled on the plate, Hernández was walking with a slide on the feet. The JT Realmuto recipient was a fraction of a second too late.
Teoscar Hernández famous after having advanced the third on a double of Freddie Freeman in the seventh round against the Phillies in Match 2 of the NLDs on Monday. Hernandez then marked the first round of the Dodgers.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The Dodgers had opened the scoring – and would only add.
With two withdrawals in the round, Will Smith (who, as in match 1, went to replace the middle of the game while he continues to work with his fractured hand) struck a single two points on the left. Shohei Ohtani, who had been safe in the series and 0 for 3 earlier in the night, nailed to another with a ground ball that crossed the inner field.
As the dust settled, the dodgers had increased in a 4-0 lead.
They would need it all.
Emmet Sheehan followed the six -round jewel of Snell, a blow and nine strokes, with two relief sleeves, removing the side in the seventh before limiting the damage in the eighth, when he abandoned a race after a triple Max Kepler and Turner Rbi single, but withdrew the side on a withdrawal from Schwarber and a Harper flight ball.
The real problem came in the ninth, when the dodgers turned to Blake Treinen – and not recently the AS of the enclosure of the upwards ascending Roki Sasaki – to close the game.
The Dodgers launcher, Roki Sasaki, delivers the ninth round against the Phillies on Monday in match 2 of the NLDs.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Treinen could not, abandoning a double and double consecutive to JT Realmuto and Nick Castellanos to bring two points back to the house and put the link to the second row.
Alex Vesia then entered and obtained two withdrawals (one of them, a crucial game of the third goal player Max Muncy to align a blow and throw Castellanos in third row as a head runner). Then Sasaki was finally summoned to face Turner with runners in the corners.
He induced a floor ball at the second basic player Tommy Edman. Edman sparked his throw first, but Freeman chose it with a sprawling effort. And again, the Phillies had failed to completely take a chance to score – leaving the dodgers to a victory to go to the NL championship series.
