Fourteen months later, Hill allowed two hits over six innings to beat Cy Young Award victor Jake Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs 6-0 Tuesday, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 NL Championship Series lead.
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It wasn’t certain whether the Cubs’ buses would drive past the enlarged doughnut replica in front of the locally famous Randy’s Donuts located one mile from where the Cubs were scheduled to land early Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport.
Nobody has a right to feel that more than Rizzo, who’s 1-for-23 this postseason.
All told, the Dodgers have won four games this postseason.
But nobody in a Cubs uniform had anything on Rizzo on a night Kershaw dominated in his first start of the year against Chicago.
Kershaw allowed only two hits and one walk, while striking out six batters, through seven innings.
Arrieta took a no-decision against the Giants in Game 3 of the NLDS, when he allowed two earned runs over six innings in a game the Cubs lost in 13 innings. “To go to Kenley for six outs, you couldn’t have scripted it any better”.
The Dodgers and their ace have a lot left in front of them.
LOS ANGELES Are the Chicago Cubs stealing signs in the National League Championship Series? He is also pitching to define his legacy, to shake himself of the burden of poor playoff results, and he does not seem ready to go down without a fight. The dynamic duo pushed each other to new heights in their 1-0 win over the Cubs to even their best-of-7 series. “Now it’s a five-game series”. It was just the fourth time this year the Cubs were held to two or fewer hits in a game.
“I thought that was ridiculous”, Zobrist said. By the close of the fifth, it was 83. Maybe October came around and your team was set to face the Dodgers.
It should be noted that while an accusation like this is sure to get people talking – hey, us included – it’s not that big of a deal.
“It’s a gift and a curse in the postseason”, he added.
It’s hard to imagine the Dodgers not getting at least one in this series and with Kershaw on the mound, I think this could be the game they do it. Prediction: the series moves to LA tied 1-1.
Then there was Kris Bryant’s game-tying home run in the ninth inning of Game Three against the Giants and the four-run ninth-inning rally in Game Four that ultimately eliminated San Francisco. “What this guy’s done – I can’t say enough about Clayton Kershaw“.
“When I saw Dave coming out, I was hoping he came out just to give that pep talk to keep going”, Gonzalez said. “But we’ll be all right”.
He gave up another single to Wilson Contreras after Baez’s hit but retired Jason Heyward to end the Cubs’ mild threat. We know what they’re doing.
So when Kershaw took the mound in the seventh inning with a one-run lead, there may have been some nervousness among Dodgers fans. A surprised Addison Russell instinctively looked to relay toward first until Baez yelled and gestured to go after the runner halfway between second and third.
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“As a starting pitcher, you like to be routine-oriented and every four days kind of know what you’re going to do”, he said. But Pederson ran back to catch it and pointed to Kershaw.
