The Los Angeles Dodgers enter Monday night’s National League Championship Series opener with momentum from their NLDS victory over Philadelphia and a slight rest advantage. While it took the Brewers five games to advance past the Cubs, the Dodgers wrapped up their series earlier, giving them a few extra days to reset and prepare for what could be their toughest test yet.
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Veteran Clayton Kershaw threw six shutout innings and Shohei Ohtani smashed his 39th homer of the year to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and secure the series win, two games to one.
With the victory, the Dodgers’ current divisional lead sits at three full games over the San Diego Padres and four full games over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Both the Padres and Diamondbacks lost on Sunday.
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(This also could be used in context of a manger in the postseason about slumping players but I digress)
The Los Angeles Dodgers have, on paper, one of the most high powered offense in all of Major League Baseball. They may also have the most inconsistent.
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What was the story of the 2022 MLB season continued even into the postseason. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 5-3 in Game One of the 2022 National League Division Series. The way they did, it was what they’ve done to Padres righty Mike Clevinger throughout his career. Clevinger against the Dodgers now has a 10.29 ERA and has allowed six homers in 14 innings pitched against the Dodgers this season.
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After playing Arizona, only four series remain before the Dodgers close the season out with six straight games against the Rockies at home. After the Dodgers wrap up the division, they will look to secure home-field advantage and a bye into the NLDS.
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Trailing the entire game, the Padres scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning on Sunday to defeat the Dodgers 4-2 and avoid a four-game sweep at Dodger Stadium.
After starting the series with a 1-1/2 game division lead over the Padres, the Dodgers find themselves 3-1/2 games up over their Southern California rivals. Even though it was a productive series for Los Angeles, Sunday’s loss was still disappointing because the team was so close to the sweep.
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Max Scherzer took a perfect game into the eighth inning on Sunday as the Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the San Diego Padres 8-0, completing a weekend series sweep. Before being pulled from the game, Scherzer threw eight full scoreless innings allowing just the one hit while striking out nine batters.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers did something Sunday night on national television rarely seen—they absolutely dominated their competition.
Of course I mean that mostly tongue in cheek, but it does seem that the Dodgers rarely do well on the national stage. But over the weekend, they won both nationally televised games. Saturday they beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2, but on Sunday it was all Dodgers, led by a magnificent performance by Clayton Kershaw.
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The Dodgers on Tuesday morning announced their 28-man roster ahead of the 2020 World Series against the Rays, which begins on Tuesday evening at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
Tuesday night will mark the beginning of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. This series will mark the first time the two National League West teams have met each other in the playoffs. They could possibly play five straight days if the series goes the full distance. If that occurred, they would play every day from Tuesday until Saturday.
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