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LOS ANGELES — Are you not entertained?
Like a defibrillator paddle consecutive to the chest, Cody Bellinger’s three-run location tally successful the bottommost of the eighth inning shocked beingness into a moribund Dodger Stadium crowd.
Bellinger’s location tally tied a crippled the Dodgers seemed to person bungled away. Three batters later, Mookie Betts drove successful the go-ahead tally with a treble and the Dodgers bushed the Atlanta Braves, 6-5, successful Game 3 of the National League Championship Series connected Tuesday day
Five outs distant from facing different elimination crippled and imaginable expanse successful this NLCS, the Dodgers person bounced backmost from 2 walk-off losses successful Atlanta and person a accidental to adjacent the bid successful Game 4 connected Wednesday night.
The Braves person present mislaid 21 of their past 25 games astatine Dodger Stadium, including regular play and postseason – but not past year’s bubble games. That includes 11 of their past 12 and the past 8 successful a row.
It looked similar they mightiness whistle past their graveyard Tuesday.
The Braves arrived successful Los Angeles this clip having won the archetypal 2 games of the NLCS against the Dodgers for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row. Last year, the Dodgers’ comeback started with a 15-run detonation successful Game 3 (including 11 runs successful the archetypal inning).
They were counting connected a akin rebirth successful this Game 3 with a rested Walker Buehler starting and the vigor boost of home-field advantage.
Deja vu took an aboriginal pb connected Corey Seager’s two-run location tally successful the archetypal inning – his 13th vocation postseason location tally (tying Justin Turner for the Dodgers’ franchise record) and his seventh against the Braves.
But the Dodgers stopped good abbreviated of past year’s 11-run leap start. Despite 4 walks, sending 8 batters to the sheet and making Braves starter Charlie Morton propulsion 34 pitches, the Dodgers didn’t people again aft Seager’s location run.
Buehler wasn’t peculiarly crisp either done the archetypal 3 innings and gave up a leadoff azygous to Freddie Freeman successful the fourth. It was 1 of 3 opposite-field singles for Freeman, who went 0 for 8 with 7 strikeouts successful the archetypal 2 games of the series.
After Ozzie Albies flew out, Austin Riley drove a heavy alert shot to halfway field. Novice outfielder Gavin Lux went backmost to the wall, warring the sun, reached up and had the shot clank disconnected his mitt for what was scored a double.
With runners connected 2nd and third, Buehler had Joc Pederson down 0-and-2 erstwhile helium threw a cutter that appeared to tuck itself wrong the onslaught zone, down and successful to Pederson. Home sheet umpire Jerry Meals did not telephone it a strike, overmuch to Buehler’s consternation.
Two pitches later, Pederson ripped a azygous done the displacement and into close tract to thrust successful the Braves’ archetypal run. Adam Duvall followed with a broken-bat azygous to thrust successful the tying run. Buehler walked Travis d’Arnaud to load the bases past Dansby Swanson’s hard-hit crushed shot (107 mph disconnected the bat) went disconnected Seager’s mitt and into near tract for different RBI single.
Buehler walked successful different run, gesturing astatine Meals aft the 4th shot (not peculiarly close) and past exiting the stage. In 2 starts this series, the Dodgers person gotten a combined 8 innings from Max Scherzer and Buehler with six runs allowed connected 11 hits and 4 walks successful that time.
The Dodgers person taken a two-run pb 3 times successful this series. All 3 person been erased by the Braves wrong the adjacent 3 innings.
Morton came disconnected the ropes successful the archetypal inning to let conscionable 2 much hits done 5 innings. The Braves bullpen picked it up from there. After stranding the bases loaded successful the archetypal inning, the Dodgers near Betts astatine 2nd basal successful the 2nd inning. They didn’t get different runner safely to 2nd basal until singles by Will Smith and AJ Pollock successful the eighth inning.
That brought up Bellinger against the Braves’ champion reliever, Luke Jackson. He fell down 1-and-2 past got the benignant of transportation helium has struggled with each play – a high-heat, precocious fastball. Bellinger hammered it into the close tract pavilion to necktie the score.
After a dreadful regular season, Bellinger has deed the reset fastener successful the postseason, going 7 for 24 with six RBIs and coming up clutch for the Dodgers.
Chris Taylor followed Bellinger’s location tally with a single, stole 2nd and went to 3rd connected a crushed out. With 2 outs, Betts ripped a treble into the right-center tract spread to people the go-ahead run.
Kenley Jansen struck retired the broadside successful the apical of the ninth to extremity it.
More to travel connected this story.
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.@kenleyjansen74 strikes retired the broadside to extremity the ballgame! 😳 pic.twitter.com/D8twdHZTTj
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