The Dodgers edged out the Mets in the last few days of the regular season to clinch home field advantage, meaning games 1,2 and 5 will be played at Dodger Stadium. Despite his recent success, Kershaw knows he will have to get the proverbial playoff monkey off his back.
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Obviously, it doesn’t get much worse than what the Mets did offensively during the final weekend of the regular season, scoring two runs in their final four games, including a game in which they were no-hit at the hands of Max Scherzer.
The first two games of the National League Division Series in Los Angeles will start in the evening local time, MLB announced Monday, with Friday’s Game 1 scheduled for 9:45 p.m. and Game 2 at 9:07 p.m. Both games will be televised on TBS. Undoubtedly the stars will come out in L.A. and at Citi Field. In order to start Puig, the Dodgers would have to bench one of their left-handed hitting corner outfielders, Andre Ethier or Carl Crawford. He reached 300 on a swinging strikeout of Upton to end the third, earning a standing ovation.
“I should be the coach”, said Martin. In his only previous postseason start, Anderson held the Detroit Tigers scoreless for six two-hit innings during the 2012 ALDS between the Tigers and Oakland A’s.
Thanks to the best 1-2 pitching punch in all of baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers are favored to win the National League pennant in 2015.
The left-hander retired 10 successive batters from the first through the fourth innings and finish with 301 strikeouts before the Dodgers went on to complete their win. Wright and the Mets swept the Dodgers 3-0 in their 2006 Division Series before losing Game 7 of the NLCS to St. Louis. Their margin for error may be slightly smaller this season, given the Dodgers lack of starting depth in the rest of the rotation. New York took two of three at Dodger Stadium in early July, getting a strong pitching performance from Syndergaard and another by Matz in his second major league start. On the 2015 season, the Dodgers are tied with the Cardinals for the best home record in all of baseball with a record of 55-26.
“We’ll find out”, he said when asked how he’ll perform this postseason.
The Mets are 6-4 all-time against the Dodgers in the postseason. He went 1-for-3 on Saturday and 0-for-2 Sunday after entering in the fourth inning.
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“Ultimately it was a game and a half of big league time, but we also have a lot of information from the live at-bats he got in instructs”, Zaidi said.
