Yu Darvish just Dave Goltz’d the fans
Watching the game unfold last night I was struck with a little bit of deja vu. It was kind of eery how game seven mirrored the last time I had sat at Dodger Stadium in a must-win game against the Houston Astros.
It was Oct 6th, 1980 and the Dodgers had just swept the Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium to force a play-in game for the 1980 postseason. The town was in a frenzy and arrived at the game in huge spirits with full expectations that a victory was only a few hours away.
I had gotten tickets and talked my Dad into taking a day off from work as it was a Monday and the game was going to be played during the day. The crowd was on its feet during the player introductions and stayed that way for most of the game.
Dave Goltz was the pitcher and with the crowd pumped up to full volume an error was made by Steve Garvey at 1st base. Just like an error was made by Cody Bellinger. Two runs ended up scoring and the Dodgers were down 2 – 0 in the 1st, just as they were down 2 – 0 last night after one inning.
In the 3rd inning, it all came apart with Goltz allowing two more runs on an Art Howe two-run home run. George Springer hit his two-run home run in the 2nd inning to chase Darvish. In 1980 they waited until the 3rd inning to chase Goltz.
Either way, in both games the team was down 4 – 0 in 1980 after three innings and down 5 – 0 in 2017 after two innings.
The two big differences between the games were Houston scoring three more runs in the 4th against Rick Sutcliffe while Houston never scored again last night once Yu was removed.
In both games, Houston never scored again after the fourth inning. In 1980 it was 19-year-old Fernando who pitched two scoreless innings along with Stever Howe. Last night it was Brandon Morrow, Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen, and Alex Wood.
In both games, the fans had been bent by the failure of the starting pitchers for the Dodgers to make it a competitive game but they never gave up. Until the last out, they cheered and cheered hoping for some offense.
In both games, the Dodger 1st baseman batted fourth and didn’t collect a hit while making an error in the 1st inning.
Three times in 1980 the Dodgers had two runners on base but kept failing to get the big hit. Last night it seemed the Dodgers had runners on base every inning except the last one.
The final score last night was 5 – 1, in 1980 it was 7 – 1. The two players who threw out the first pitch last night played in that game in 1980, Steve Garvey and Rick Monday.
For one year I didn’t forgive Dave Goltz for his piss poor pitching performance but 1981 happened. We outlasted Houston in the NLDS and went on to win the World Championship.
It would not surprise me the slightest if that happens in 2018.
You think you were loud last night?
Dodger fans don’t have anything on the 1980 fans who by now are probably sucking on oxygen in a nursing home or annoying their family members because they refuse to die.
Josh Wilker over at Cardboard Gods just did a write up on Joe Ferguson and mentions the 1974 World Series throw which is a classic.
However, my favorite Joe Ferguson moment was the walk off home run in the 1980 final series against Houston. It was Oct 3rd, 1980 and the Dodgers were down three games with three games to go. This was the first game on a Friday Night.
Listen to that crowd. Watch how Joe carries his helmet around the bases with him and flings into the crowd as he rounds 3rd base. That home run is probably the third home run that jumps into my mind when I think of Dodger home runs.
Imagine if that would happen in a game seven?
Game Seven will cost you $1500
[Update 11/01/2017] Tickets dropped to 1,000 this morning so I”M GOING TO GAME 7
Since Dodger Stadium has never hosted a game seven before it is no surprise that the price of a ticket has a bottom price of $1500 on seatgeek. Game Six tickets dropped all the way to $400 as I think everyone was saving their money in case there was a game seven.
It is one thing to go to a World Series game, I imagine it is quite another to go to a game seven World Series game.
As I said before this series deserved a game seven and I’m glad we have one. I can honestly say, I’ll be satisfied with this season no matter what happens on Wednesday Night, though I do feel that the Dodgers have the advantage.
Good luck to all of you who have tickets or are going to get one.
Chavez Ravine gets her closeup
In the grand history of the greatest stadium in baseball history she has never hosted a game seven World Series, but tomorrow she will and the place will be going crazy.
I fully expected the Dodgers to win tonight and they did not disappoint.
I fully expect Tuesday night to be a 3 – 1 game. All those offensive records have to come to a standstill.
Everyone did the job they had to do.
Rich Hill almost got fifteen outs, but in this game, fourteen outs will do when you only give up one run.
Brandon Morrow kept the game close and looked like the pitcher we saw every game this year except game five. I heard a lot of second-guessing when Morrow came in for Rich Hill but I don’t know why. He was tired on Sunday but he only threw seven pitches (all bad) and had yesterday to get his arm back in gear. Dave Roberts made the right move, no way can you let Rich Hill pitch to Alex Bregman. This was the meat of the Houston lineup with Bregman/Altuve/Correa coming up. Morrow didn’t just get Bregman out to end the fifth, he started the sixth and also got Altuve/Correa out before giving up a single to the most booed player in the history of Dodger Stadium.
With two out, one on, and the left-handed McCann coming up, Roberts brought in Tony Watson to get McCann. He didn’t. He hit him instead, but he made up for it by getting Marvin Gonzalez to end the top of the sixth. Eighteen outs and the Dodger staff had given up only one run.
Now they needed to score.
Austin Barnes started the sixth with a nice line shot to left field which brought up Chase Utley who had come in on a double switch. You hated seeing Chase replacing Logan Forsythe but that was the price Forsythe paid by making the last out in the fifth inning. You couldn’t have Watson bat second in the 6th? Or could you? Wouldn’t Chase simply have pinch hit for him instead of doing a double switch? Either way, it was Chase batting 9th. I thought he’d bunt, but he was swinging away and was quickly down two strikes when Verlander made the biggest mistake of the game and hit Chase putting runners on 1st/2nd with Chris Taylor coming up.
That pitch changed the whole complexion of the game.
Christ Taylor made Verlander pay for that mistake by hitting a two-strike pitch down the right-field line to score Barnes with the tying run and put runners on 2nd/3rd with no outs. Corey Seager almost put the game out of reach with a three-run home run but Josh Reddick caught his long high fly ball with his back pressed against the wall. Nonetheless, Chase Utley ran home with the go ahead run and the Dodgers had a 2 – 1 lead. Verlander finished off Turner/Bellinger but his line was done. Verlander had been great but that one mistake turned a 1 – 0 lead into a 2 – 1 deficit. Once again the Dodgers had gotten to Verlander in the 6th inning.
Could they hold the lead this time?
Watson started the 7th but quickly walked Josh Reddick. I’m sure that wasn’t the game plan for the left-handed Watson to walk the weak hitting Reddick. Roberts wasted no time and went to Kenta Maeda. Paul Bunyan pinch hit for Verlander and somehow lumbered his way to 1st base on what I thought was a sure double play given how slow he is.
Now it gets dicey. Top of the lineup to face Kenta. Luckily he holds Springer to a single but that brings up Bregman with two on and one out. Bregman just gets under it and Houston has two out and two on with Jose Altuve up. He’s hit seven postseason home runs. This series has had a boatload of three-run jacks. Kenta is pitching his 3rd game in five nights. This was nervous time. Deep breaths with each swing from Altuve who seems to come out of his shoes with every swing. Finally, on his last swing of game six he tops the ball to Turner and is out on a bang-bang play at 1st as Bellinger scoops up the low throw.
One run lead, bottom of the 7th. Houston has to go to their beleaguered bullpen and once again the bullpen does not do their job. Joc Pederson who had not hit an opposite-field home run during the regular season hits one into the left-field pavilion where a fan makes a futile attempt to catch the ball and it smacks a lady fan behind him. That fan will never live that down.
3 – 1 lead, Kenley Jansen for six outs. Kenley doesn’t dick around as he retires all six Houston hitters and the Dodgers get their game seven.
We can do it
Needing to win both games at home presents a tall task for the Dodgers. In their franchise history, they have trailed a best-of-7 series 3-2 eight times. They forced a Game 7 twice, but lost all eight series.
Ignoring the historical record, I can find some reasons for optimism.
For one, Clayton Kershaw won’t be pitching the win or go home game on just three days rest. The largest eggs that Clayton laid in the postseason were the game six starts in the NLCS against the Cardinals and Cubs in which the Dodgers lost by a combined score of 14 – 0. Of course, even if Clayton had pitched brilliantly they could still have lost both those games by the score of 1 – 0 because they hadn’t scored.
If the Angels could do it in 2002 against the Giants, the Dodgers can do it.
The games are at home, and until game two of the World Series the Dodgers have been undefeated at home in the postseason, and more times than not, they win that game.
Along with the Dodgers being at home, Houston is on the road, and while they are a devastating force in Houston, not so much on the road. It should still be fresh in everyone’s mind how Houston looked invincible in the first two games of the ALCS, and pathetic in NY against suboptimal starting pitching.
Rich Hill wasn’t allowed the chance to outpitch Justin Verlander in game two last week but Dave Roberts said he’d have a longer leash tonight. He left down 1 – 0 when he was pulled after just four innings. He’s fully rested and Mr. Hippity Hop is haring to go.
Cody Bellinger has found his swing, and Justin Turner is due.
This could be a repeat of game two in that both starters do their jobs, but once it gets to the bullpen all bets are off because even with the off day, you have to think the arms are still tired. The ball won’t be flying though, it will be cold in Los Angeles night with some drizzle which I think helps the Dodgers more than Houston.
This kind of series is begging for a game seven.
Game on
Throw it out the window
I’d have bet on most of these outcomes becoming true.
Dodgers strike early and take a four-run lead in route to winning game five
……throw it out the window
Clayton Kershaw staked to a four-run lead cruises to another postseason victory
…..throw it out the window
Cody Bellinger breaks four / four tie with a three-run blast for the first Dodger rookie home run in the World Series since Lou Johnson to lead the Dodgers to a game five victory.
…..throw it out the window
Cody Bellinger becomes the first LAD in the World Series to hit a home run and triple in back to back at-bats to break a seven / seven tie to lead Dodgers to a game five victory.
…..throw it out the window
Dodgers trailing 12 – 9 in the 9th inning score three runs on a two-run home run by Puig and a two-out game-tying single by Chris Taylor to set up Dodgers for a game five victory.
…..throw it out the window
Halloween Horror in Houston
Halloween came early for the Dodgers on Sunday night in Houston with the first five Astro hitters scaring the bejeesus out of the Dodger pitching staff. Not since a game at Coors was I so scared of a group of hitters as I was last night.
For three innings it felt safe. Clayton Kershaw had a four-run lead and he had cut through the Astro lineup like butter. What could go wrong?
How about everything?
From the fourth inning on, this wasn’t a baseball game, this was a heavyweight fight and the biggest problem I had was figuring if the Dodgers were Mohammed Ali or Jolting Joe Frazier. Those of us who witnessed the Thrilla in Manilla will never forget two fighters who almost fought to the death .
No lead was safe last night. Especially a three-run lead which was normally very sacred ground for a World Series game.
The Dodgers had never lost a game in 2017 in which they led by four runs. They lost last night.
At least they lost the game, what they didn’t lose was their heart or the hearts of their fans. I’ve never seen a game like this and likely never will. This loss wasn’t heartbreaking, it was just one team outlasting another team on a night when no one could pitch and just about everyone could hit.
If the game turned on a managerial move, it might have been the bizarre bunt sign put on by Dave Roberts for Kiké Hernandez. Yes, Kiké was facing a right hand pitcher but this guy was on the ropes and what was one run going to mean in this game when multiple three-run leads had meant nothing? You had two exhausted and ineffective bullpens going at each other. I expect Dave is being grilled over the hot plate for that decision and maybe it cost the team the game, but that is only if you subscribe to the idea that Kiké got a hit and who really knows. I just think his chances were higher than normal given the situation.
You had to bring in Morrow but you also had to have someone ready just in case the guy who you knew was on fumes, was lit up. Of course it only took seven pitches for the fire to explode into an inferno but those five Astro hitters are the darndest arsonists.
So many baby field home runs.
So many bad calls by the umpire on both sides of the plate.
It seemed as a Dodger fan the Dodgers got the worst of the umpiring but I suspect that an Astro fan would say the same thing about his team.
All I know is that was entertaining if not exactly baseball as we know it in Los Angeles.
I fully expect Tuesday night to be a 3 – 1 game. All those offensive records have to come to a standstill.
And Joc, run. This game had no place for lollygagging a fly ball toward an 18 foot fence.
One final thought for me. I’m on twitter now, and maybe I shouldn’t be. I see a lot of comments and I’m bewildered how one bad decision in a dugout makes a person so vilified. It is the actions of a lifetime not of a second that determine the makeup of a human being, and while the slant eye jab by Gurriel was wrong in every way, it does not make him a horrible person unless backed up by other actions in his life. Have some perspective people, most of us will do something stupid in our lifetimes, just be happy it isn’t caught on tape for everyone to see.
What was that?
As a Dodger fan that was a cruel ending, as a baseball fan I’m pretty sure I just finished watching the most exciting World Series game I’ve ever seen. If you want to read a recap that can bring justice to that game you came to the wrong place. I’d try Joe Posnanski
HOUSTON — Nobody wants to leave the ballpark. Maybe we are too tired to leave. Too numb. We just saw something. It’s hard to explain what we saw, though. The scoreboard down the right-field line reads like so: 12:40 LAD 12 F HOU 13
The words of the great Inigo Montoya echo in the mind. “Let me explain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up.”
I’m exhausted and don’t have much to say except a few things.
The Dodgers now have to win the next two games to declare themselves World Champions but that is why you have home field advantage. They find themselves in the same situation as Houston did in the ALCS, and Houston won those two games. They will have to do it with Rich Hill and Yu Darvish starting game six and seven. I still like our chances.
After all, they almost won a game in which:
- Clayton Kershaw didn’t protect a four run lead
- Clayton Kershaw was driven from the game before getting 15 outs
- Brandon Morrow gave up four straight hits on seven pitches
- Houston hit five home runs
- The Houston 3/4/5 hitters drove in ten runs
- Houston scored 13 runs and only won by one run
- The Houston bullpen looks like swiss cheese
That is all I got tonight. Good night and we will check back Tuesday Night where I expect to see a pitching duel because those bats gotta be as tired as the Astro fans who endured a five hour game of “Holy Shit”.
So that is how it feels
when your bullpen lets you down again and again. Hinch is being crucified for going to his closer Ken Giles yesterday and watching him implode once again. Dodger fans are quite used to watching the bullpen pieces that you watched be successful all season falter in October so we can empathize with Houston fans while being giddy it is them not us this time.
The Houston bullpen, the ones who helped Houston win over 100 games have been ineffective in October. The reason they are in the World Series and tied at two games are because of the starters who are pitching out of the bullpen. Brad Peacock, Lance McCullers, and Musgrove. During the year Lance McCullers made 22 starts in 22 games but it was his performance in relief that helped defeat the NYY in deciding game seven. Brad Peacock made 21 starts out of 34 games during the regular season but it was his relief performance in game three on Friday that helped Houston take that game. Even Joe Musgrave who gave up the three-run home run to Joc made fifteen starts during the regular season.
The heart of the Houston bullpen, Ken Giles, Chris Devinski, Luke Gregerson, and Will Harris were excellent during the regular season but have lost the confidence of their manager after repeated failures in the postseason. Still, at some point, you still have to use them, and that is what Hince did last night.
Their ALCS stats:
Play Play Play Play Play Play Play Name G ERA IP H ER BB SO WHIP Ken Giles 3 9.00 3.0 5 3 3 5 2.667 Will Harris 2 6.75 1.1 2 1 1 1 2.250 Francisco Liriano 1 0.00 1.0 0 0 1 1 1.000 Chris Devenski 2 13.50 0.2 1 1 2 0 4.500 Luke Gregerson 1 0.00 0.2 0 0 1 0 1.500 Joe Musgrove 1 27.00 0.2 2 2 0 0 3.000 Totals 21 3.30 60.0 45 22 19 70 1.067
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Their ALDS stats:
Play Play Play Play Play Play Play Name G ERA IP H ER BB SO WHIP Ken Giles 2 6.00 3.0 3 2 0 2 1.000 Chris Devenski 3 11.57 2.1 4 3 0 3 1.714 Luke Gregerson 2 0.00 2.0 1 0 0 3 0.500 Joe Musgrove 2 4.50 2.0 1 1 0 1 0.500 Will Harris 1 0.00 0.2 2 0 0 0 3.000 Francisco Liriano 2 13.50 0.2 2 1 0 0 3.000 Totals 18 4.63 35.0 39 18 12 33 1.457
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Dodger fans can only be thankful that the bullpen has had one bad game out of twelve in this postseason.
That was unexpected
Not that the Dodgers won but that Alex Wood kept the right-leaning Astro lineup to zero hits for 17 outs. Nineteen left-hand pitchers have started at MinuteMaid this season:
Rk Player Date Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc IR 1 Patrick Corbin 2017-08-17 W 4-0 8.2 4 0 1 7 82 2 James Paxton 2017-04-05 L 3-5 6.0 2 0 1 5 72 3 James Paxton 2017-07-19 W 4-1 7.0 6 1 1 7 67 WS Alex Wood 2017-10-28 W 6-2 5.2 1 1 2 3 64 4 Drew Pomeranz 2017-06-16 W 2-1 6.1 4 1 3 4 62 5 Daniel Norris 2017-05-24 W 6-3 6.1 4 1 2 5 62 6 Jason Vargas 2017-04-07 W 5-1 6.0 6 1 1 6 61 7 Danny Duffy 2017-04-08 W 7-3 7.0 8 2 2 3 54 8 Ariel Miranda 2017-04-06 W 4-2 5.0 5 2 3 4 50 9 Sean Manaea 2017-08-18 L 1-3 6.0 6 3 1 2 49 10 Jordan Montgomery 2017-07-01 L 6-7 5.1 5 3 1 4 49 11 Sean Manaea 2017-06-27 W 6-4 5.2 9 1 3 3 47 12 Jaime Garcia 2017-05-10 L 2-4 6.0 6 4 5 4 43 13 Alex Claudio 2017-05-02 L 7-8 4.0 4 3 0 1 43 14 Tyler Skaggs 2017-09-24 W 7-5 5.0 6 4 2 3 40 15 Blake Snell 2017-08-03 W 5-3 4.0 7 3 1 5 40 16 Ariel Miranda 2017-07-17 W 9-7 5.2 6 5 1 4 40 17 David Price 2017-06-18 W 6-5 5.0 8 3 3 3 39 18 Wade Miley 2017-05-27 L 2-5 5.0 8 4 3 2 34 19 James Paxton 2017-09-15 L 2-5 1.1 4 3 2 0 32
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and Alex Wood pitched the fourth best game of the year there, in the World Series, with his team down two games to one. There is a good chance that Alex Wood will never pitch a more important game in his career, and he delivered. Alex Wood had barely pitched in a month and I fully expected him to have 1st inning troubles but he was ready for his big day and pitched his best in the most important game of his career. It might not have been the best-pitched game of the postseason for the Dodgers but given the context, it is right there with Clayton’s game one masterpiece.
Player Date Series Gm# Tm Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Clayton Kershaw 2017-10-24 WS 1 LAD HOU W 3-1 7.0 3 1 0 11 78 Clayton Kershaw 2017-10-19 NLCS 5 LAD CHC W 11-1 6.0 3 1 1 5 66 Yu Darvish 2017-10-09 NLDS 3 LAD ARI W 3-1 5.0 2 1 0 7 66 Alex Wood 2017-10-28 WS 4 LAD HOU W 6-2 5.2 1 1 2 3 64 Rich Hill 2017-10-15 NLCS 2 LAD CHC W 4-1 5.0 3 1 1 8 64 Yu Darvish 2017-10-17 NLCS 3 LAD CHC W 6-1 6.1 6 1 1 7 63 Rich Hill 2017-10-25 WS 2 LAD HOU L 6-7 4.0 3 1 3 7 56 Clayton Kershaw 2017-10-14 NLCS 1 LAD CHC W 5-2 5.0 4 2 1 4 54 Alex Wood 2017-10-18 NLCS 4 LAD CHC L 2-3 4.2 4 3 0 7 51 Clayton Kershaw 2017-10-06 NLDS 1 LAD ARI W 9-5 6.1 5 4 3 7 51 Rich Hill 2017-10-07 NLDS 2 LAD ARI W 8-5 4.0 3 2 3 4 49 Yu Darvish 2017-10-27 WS 3 LAD HOU L 3-5 1.2 6 4 1 0 26
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This win means the Dodgers will play again at Dodger Stadium and I don’t have to write a story about how Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers had lost every must win or go home game he has pitched in the postseason.
I got home one inning into the game and was befuddled to find Andre Ethier sitting once again against a right-hand pitcher. This meant that both Kiké and Joc were starting. That seemed like one too many to me but once again Dave Roberts proved to know what he was doing as Kiké delivered a big hit that his fellow Dodgers couldn’t deliver on and Joc struck the big dong that sealed the victory.
Joc Pederson has hit three postseason home runs and each one has been huge. You could already say that Joc Pederson has hit more important postseason home runs than any other Los Angeles Dodger. He hit the home run that allowed the Dodgers to tie Max Scherzer and eventually beat him. He hit the home that broke up the Justin Verlander no-hitter and eventually led to the greatest four innings in the World Series in the second decade of the 21st century. He hit a three-run dong that gave the Dodgers a 6 – 1 lead that felt much more comfortable after Jansen gave up a home run to cut the lead to 6 – 2. A one-run lead after that would have nerve-racking, but Joc had taken care of the nerve tonic.
Cody Bellinger was the story before the game, during the game, late in the game, and after the game. In the beginning, it was all about his horrific slump and how could Dave Roberts continue to bat him cleanup. During the game, he made two more outs and at that point was zero for thirteen with eight strikeouts. With Chris Taylor, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, and Cody Bellinger doing nothing since the Seager home run late in game two it was no wonder the Dodgers were down 1 – 0 in the 7th inning. Turner made another out and was no longer our Papi. Bellinger had struck out in his last at-bat and was down two strikes. All I could think was don’t swing at the pitch headed for your toes.
And he didn’t.
Instead, he swung at a mistake pitch that was left up and he drove it toward the strange part of the stadium that has no business existing in a major league baseball park. Marwin Gonzalez couldn’t get to it and bounced off that weird wall for a double. The tying run was on with Puig coming up. Puig has looked confident but had not been particularly productive in the World Series and while he drove the ball well to RCF it was still an out. Logan Forsythe has had a brilliant postseason and once again he came through with a bullet single to bring in Bellinger.
No one is wondering anymore who the Dodger 2nd baseman will be in 2018.
The game was tied, it was now a bullpen game and even after Friday nights bullpen debacle you at least felt as though you had a shot.
Brandon Morrow had gotten the 18th out in the sixth inning and would get outs 19 – 21 in the 7th. Devenski did his job for Houston in the top of the eighth and Tony Watson did his job in as well for the Dodgers and we went to the 9th inning of game four tied at one.
Ken Giles the beleaguered Houston closer came into the game. Three of the four horsemen were coming up. Seager/Turner/Bellinger. Seager somehow found a hole between multiple infielders to start the game with a single. Justin Turner worked a walk. Two on, no out, Bellinger up, 9th inning, tied game. Bellinger at this point was 1 for 14 in the World Series. You could not have been upset if Dave Roberts had asked Bellinger to bunt. If successful they would have walked Puig and pitched to the hottest hitter in the postseason for the Dodgers, Logan Forsythe.
Dave Roberts and the Dodgers have thrown out convention all year and he did it once again. He let Bellinger swing away and Cody Bellinger delivered the biggest hit any 22-year-old Dodger has ever delivered, slamming a shot to LCF to score Corey Seager with the go-ahead run. He also flew into second base for a double that probably shocked those who had never seen him run but it did not shock Dodger fans.
The Dodgers had the lead, they had 2nd/3rd, no outs. How many more runs could they score to make the lead insurmountable? Giles was gone and we may never see him again. Musgrove came in and struck out Puig very easily, might have been his worst at-bat of the postseason. They walked Forsythe to load the bases and it was up to Barnes to increase the lead. Barnes has continued to start every game even though he hasn’t hit a lick since the NLDS. Barnes worked that count to 2-2 and hit the key sacrifice fly that gave the Dodgers a two-run lead. That should do it, every Dodger fan had to feel comfortable with a two run lead and Kenley. Kenley might give up one big fly but he won’t give up two.
Didn’t matter.
Cause Joc changed it all with his huge three-run home run.
The Dodgers had tied the series, and now had the advantage with Kershaw in game five in Houston, and whoever in Los Angeles.
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 