Finally, after months of hunting the Giants, the Dodgers slayed them with a 2-1 win to advance to the National League Championship Series for the fifth time in six years.
Finally, after months of hunting the Giants, they had slayed them with a 2-1 win to advance to the National League Championship Series for the fifth time in six years.
Before the game, Vin Scully tweeted that it was the most important meeting in the storied rivalry’s history. Famous faces showed up to witness it. The cities’ mayors. Barry Bonds. Members of the San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors. Rob Lowe. They were part of a vibrant sellout crowd of 42,375 people nearly all clad in black and orange that left angry with Morales.
Urías was Major League Baseball’s only 20-game winner this season. He recorded a 2.96 earned-run average in 32 starts. He was good in Game 2, holding the Giants to one run over and five innings, and threw just 72 pitches. Why mess with that? By having the right-handed Knebel open the game with the left-handed Urías looming, the Dodgers forced the Giants to react on their terms.Would they be willing to burn any of them when Urías entered the game, no matter how early? It was about snatching some control from the Giants to create as many favorable matchups as possible.
Roberts said Urías was the one starter in the Dodgers’ rotation who could handle the audible after he starred in a hybrid role during the team’s World Series run last October. He acknowledged there was merit to the argument that Urías deserved the start but maximizing their chances of winning took precedent.
The final pregame chess move was made at 4:48 p.m., just over an hour before the scheduled first pitch. That’s when the Giants finally announced their lineup in response to the Dodgers’ change.
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