Dodgers end season 1 win behind Giants in NL West, lose Max Muncy to injury

LOS ANGELES — Remember backmost successful outpouring grooming erstwhile immoderate predicted the San Diego Padres would enactment an extremity to the Dodgers’ streak of part titles?

Well – they did person a manus successful it.

While the Dodgers were routing the packed-for-the-playoffs Milwaukee Brewers 10-3, the Padres (4-22 implicit their past 26 games) rolled implicit 1 past time, allowing the San Francisco Giants to clinch the NL West part rubric with an 11-4 triumph astatine location Sunday afternoon.

On the 70th day of Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World,” these Dodgers and Giants could make nary specified drama. Instead, the astir elevated part contention successful shot past concludes with the Giants exceeding each projections (outside Farhan Zaidi’s laptop) with a best-in-baseball 107 wins and the Dodgers matching their franchise grounds with 106.

Baseball has ne'er had 2 teams successful the aforesaid part triumph truthful galore games. The Dodgers tin marque the bittersweet boast of having won the astir games of immoderate second-place squad successful MLB past (previously 104 by the 1909 Chicago Cubs and 1942 Brooklyn Dodgers).

The Dodgers’ tally of 8 consecutive part titles ends arsenic the third-longest successful the part epoch (starting successful 1969) down the Atlanta Braves’ 14 from 1991 done 2005 and the New York Yankees’ 9 from 1998 done 2006.

The Dodgers volition big the St. Louis Cardinals successful a one-game wild-card playoff connected Wednesday with the victor advancing to play the NL West champion Giants successful a best-of-five NL Division bid that volition statesman Friday successful San Francisco.

However acold they proceed from here, the Dodgers mightiness person to bash it without 1 of their halfway players successful the lineup.

Max Muncy near Sunday’s crippled successful the 3rd inning aft Brewers baserunner Jace Peterson crashed into his near limb connected a play astatine archetypal base.

Peterson was moving wrong the baseline aft dribbling a swinging bunt onto the writer successful beforehand of the pitcher’s mound. Dodgers catcher Will Smith fielded the shot and threw to first, his propulsion tailing into the baseline and hitting Peterson successful the back.

Muncy had stabbed astatine the ball, Peterson barreling into his near arm. Muncy dropped to the crushed successful evident pain, lying determination for immoderate clip arsenic Manager Dave Roberts and a Dodgers trainer tended to him.

Muncy yet near the tract cradling his near limb arsenic helium walked off. The Dodgers announced a preliminary diagnosis of a near elbow wounded but Muncy’s absorption raises superior doubts astir his availability for the postseason.

Muncy led the Dodgers successful location runs (36), RBIs (94) and slugging percent (.527) this season.

Sunday was “Pups astatine the Park Day” and Roberts called disconnected the dogs aboriginal with the Giants pulling distant from the Padres.

Roberts pulled starting pitcher Walker Buehler aft 5 innings. Buehler struck retired 11 and finished the play 16-4 with a 2.47 ERA (third successful MLB) implicit a career-high 207-2/3 innings (second successful the majors).

Roberts has said utilizing Buehler successful alleviation successful that wild-card crippled is “very unlikely,” leaving him arsenic the presumptive starter successful Game 1 of the NLDS if the Dodgers beforehand to look the Giants connected Friday astatine Oracle Park.

Roberts besides sat Trea Turner aft his expansive slam highlighted a six-run 5th inning for the Dodgers.

Turner’s 3rd location tally and 2nd expansive slam successful the past 3 games stamped his play with an exclamation mark. He finished with a .328 batting average, the champion successful shot this season, finishing beardown – helium was 31 for 77 (.403) during a season-ending 19-game hitting streak that was a career-best for him and the longest for a Dodger this season.

The expansive slam was besides the 11th of the play for the Dodgers, a franchise record. Matt Beaty added 4 RBIs, including a three-run location tally successful the eighth inning – the Dodgers’ 19th location tally successful their past 5 games. They volition spell into the postseason with a 15-game location winning streak, the longest successful franchise history.

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