The Dodgers were on the wrong side of history for a while again Sunday.
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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Rich Hill had a ideal game intact through 6.2 innings Saturday night.
The Dodgers never did solve Urena, losing 3-0 at Marlins Park.
Rich Hill started for the Dodgers and threw seven ideal innings.
“Urena was good. Urena was really good”, Roberts said. He moved the ball around, pitched with velocity. He gets sink. But his slider hasn’t been a true depth pitch. He’s got a big arm. It was Ramos’ 34th save of the season and his second in the series. “You’ve got a guy flirting with history”. “It doesn’t matter how well we’re swinging or what happened yesterday, he threw the ball well. He did his job”. Hill threw 89 pitches in that game as well. Giving Hill a chance to finish what he started with the bullpen warming just in case probably would’ve been the most practical play – though, granted, it’s easy to say that in retrospect and without skin in the game.
In Toronto, David Ortiz hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Hanley Ramirez also connected.
So that’s 10 teams either occupying a postseason spot or within four games of one.
“He didn’t leave anything over the middle of the plate”, Reddick said. Fastball, changeup – [those pitches are] still on the same plane.
Maeda pitched six effective innings, allowing three runs, two earned, and eight hits. They had two more hits in the seventh inning before a double play ended that modest threat. Dennis Martinez – who pitched a flawless game for Montreal at Dodger Stadium in 1991 – threw out one of Friday’s ceremonial first pitches. One strike away, Urena bounced a changeup in the dirt before Riddick slapped a fastball the opposite way past third baseman Martin Prado.
“They had our number this year”, Roberts said. “Bill Miller’s a very good umpire”.
Roberts, meanwhile, said his focus was on a price a little bigger in scope and a little further into the future. “I think that ultimately when you look at it, that’s the reason, and it’s hard to argue with it”. This time he hit his homer off an 85 miles per hour curveball from Marlins reliever Brian Ellington.
Things went downhill from there.
Marwin Gonzalez drove in a run with a third inning squeeze bunt for the Astros, who began the day 2½ games back for the AL’s second wild card.
It was the longest outing of any Marlins pitcher this year, and it was two innings deeper into a game than Urena had ever gone in his two years in the majors. Bochy let Moore – who missed most of the last two seasons after Tommy John surgery – stay in until he allowed his first hit with two outs in the ninth.
Hill entered the game a combined 11-3 with a 1.94 ERA in 16 starts this year for Oakland and the Dodgers, who acquired him on August 1.
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“[The Dodgers were] looking for changeups outside, and I was going low and in with the curve”. “I feel for Rich”.
