His last start for the Orioles, on July 27, 2009, would be his last major league start for more than six years.
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Rich Hill shut down Chicago’s sinking offense in Game 3, while the Dodgers victimized Jake Arrieta with a pair of home runs, handing the Cubs a 6-0 loss in front of a raucous Dodger Stadium crowd of 54,269.
Grandal said he was fortunate to homer off Arrieta, which extended the Dodgers’ postseason run of games with long balls to eight in a row. “Now it carries over and passes the baton, so to speak, to everybody else to keep it going”.
Despite leading in the NLCS, our models give the Dodgers only a 26.8 percent chance of winning the world series, 0.8 percent worse than the Cubs, and the third-best mark among the four remaining teams.
Maybe Maddon should try a more positive T-Shirt: “Try to Hit”.
After splitting the first two games of this NLCS at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Cubs have traveled south for this game 4 in Chavez Ravine with the Dodgers. In 18 scoreless innings since, they have just six hits. “It’s pretty much been weaker contact. We have to get back to making hard contact”. Hill was tough. The Cubs were not, appearing to surrender on several plate appearances, revealing little discipline, absent focus and lots of hanging heads. He ended up taking the ball in an elimination game for the NL Central champs that year, in Game 3 with the Cubs down 2-0 in the best-of-five NLDS to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers will be looking to replicate that offensive performance against Chicago’s veteran lefty John Lackey (0-0, 6.75 ERA).
“It was a thought”.
It’s been said many times by many writers, including me, that in the postseason the minute victories and failures become increasingly more important than during the 162 game regular season.
That’s all it was. In the second inning, walk a few guys, it’s over with, you can’t control it, and you move on. His son, Len Jr., said he didn’t think his dad would care about this particular run to the playoffs, not unless the Cubs get past the Dodgers. The stamp of intimidation he left in Hollywood back in August of 2015 has faded, and though his beard and glowering stare still look imposing, his pitching wasn’t tonight. Urias faced the Cubs twice during the season, with mixed results. “But at the same time, we can hit”. The Dodgers need their hits to miss some gloves in order take full advantage.
LA hosts Game Four on Wednesday. Hill gave up two hits in six innings, and both of those hits were by Bryant.
Credit is certainly due to the Dodgers pitching staff, but with baseball’s best lineup, no runs in two games is shocking. He said that Kansas City Royals pitcher Joakim Soria had it too – the Dodgers signed him out of Mexico at age 17 – while Yasiel Puig did not. “It’s laughable (that I had gone hitless after the first inning of the previous seven games)”.
Lackey looked shaky in his first postseason start this year, allowing three runs in four innings against the San Francisco Giants.
“That’s how it’s been all year”, Urias said through an interpreter.
Convinced there would be another opportunity to get back to the big leagues, he focused on executing pitches without worrying about his current circumstances.
The dominance on offense continued in the sixth inning with a solo shot from Justin Turner.
The Dodgers have been heavily reliant on their closer, Kenley Jansen.
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Jansen struck out Bryant to end the eighth and the Dodgers padded their lead with two more runs in the bottom of the inning.
