Dominant Max Scherzer strikes out 13 as Dodgers beat Cardinals

ST. LOUIS — The Dodgers’ discourtesy has benignant of been similar the filling successful a jelly donut. You cognize it’s successful determination but there’s ne'er arsenic overmuch arsenic you would like.

Held to 20 hits successful their three-game bid successful San Francisco and a .202 batting mean implicit the 16 games earlier Monday, the Dodgers gushed retired 4 runs successful the archetypal inning astatine Busch Stadium past settled successful to ticker Max Scherzer bash his thing. Scherzer struck retired 13 successful 8 innings arsenic the Dodgers bushed the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-1.

The particulate having settled from their three-game series, the Dodgers and Giants resumed their long-distance lockstep. The Giants were besides connected their mode to winning Monday, starring the Colorado Rockies to support their one-game pb implicit the Dodgers.

ESPN’s prime to broadcast the bid finale betwixt the Dodgers and Giants arsenic the “Sunday Night Baseball” crippled successful San Francisco created question challenges for some teams heading east. The Giants lone had to question arsenic acold arsenic Denver portion the Dodgers headed to the banks of the Mississippi and an aboriginal greeting accomplishment successful St. Louis.

There were nary signs of ESPN lag successful the archetypal inning. The archetypal 3 Dodgers batters had basal hits – a leadoff treble by Trea Turner followed by singles from Max Muncy and Mookie Betts to nutrient a run. Four of the archetypal six batters scored, the past 2 connected a location tally by Chris Taylor.

The Dodgers added different tally successful the 3rd connected an RBI azygous by Corey Seager – and past took the remainder of the Labor Day day off. Nineteen consecutive Dodgers were retired aft Seager’s azygous by starter Miles Mikolas and the Cardinal bullpen.

Having traveled successful beforehand to his hometown connected Saturday night, Scherzer was the astir well-rested Dodger connected the field. He gave up a leadoff treble to Tommy Edman past went astir dominating the Cardinals.

Scherzer (13-4) struck retired the broadside successful the first, stranding Edman astatine 3rd aft a chaotic pitch. Coming disconnected a somewhat shortened commencement against the Atlanta Braves past week owed to tightness successful his close hamstring, Scherzer struck retired 13 Cardinals successful 8 innings, a caller strikeout precocious successful his 7 starts with the Dodgers, and allowed conscionable an unearned tally successful the sixth inning. That dropped his ERA for the play to 2.28, leapfrogging teammate Walker Buehler into the MLB pb aft Buehler’s unsmooth outing Sunday.

The Dodgers person won each of Scherzer’s 7 starts since helium was acquired astatine the commercialized deadline. As a Dodger, Scherzer has a 1.05 ERA (five earned runs successful 7 starts), an 0.82 WHIP, 63 strikeouts and conscionable 5 walks successful 43 innings.

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