The Dodgers were sloppy tonight. Poor baserunning by Teoscar Hernandez flipped a sure sacrifice fly into an unusual but still costly inning-ending double play (and the Dodgers added another inning-ending double play from Mookie Betts, one frame later).
And from the plate, the missed opportunities were more glaring. The Dodgers were 1-for-10 with RISP, 11 total LOB, in Game 1. And if not for Freddie Freeman's solo HR in the sixth, and then Betts' bases-loaded walk RBI in the ninth, we would have been shut out altogether by the effective patchwork of Brewers arms.
But Blake Treinen saved Roki Sasaki's lack of sharpness tonight in the bottom of the ninth, staunching the bleeding after the Brewers scored one run and had the bases loaded, by striking out Brice Turang to notch the Game 1 victory.
We won't be able to depend upon game sloppiness and a moribund offense, if we want to win this series.
Not to mention, we won't be able to expect our starters to go eight full scoreless innings and face the minimum number of batters (24), like Blake Snell did tonight. 8.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 10 Ks. Unbelievable outing by Snell, who put the Dodgers on his back for this NLCS Game 1 victory.
We stole this road win. Let's be sharper tomorrow, okay? (I'm looking at you, Teoscar.)
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1 comments:
Treinen was on his way walking his second batter and walking in the winning run. he threw a 10 foot high fastball that Turang swang and missed. im not sold on his comeback
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