The Dodgers face a threat in St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright in Wednesday's NL wild-card game.
The Dodgers’ World Series title defense begins with a wild-card game Wednesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Max Scherzer will start on the mound for L.A.
The word “challenge” is an understatement. It could be the Dodgers’ biggest pitching hurdle of the postseason, and it appears on the first steps of the first lap.Wainwright seems ready, so ready he basically laughed his way through Tuesday’s news conference. He clearly loves this stage. He seems plenty big for this moment.
“Definitely, definitely, it was a fun time, for the first time guys looking at each going, I don’t think we are ever going to lose another game again,” said Wainwright of their winning streak. “That was a great thing to hear. Several people say that, like it feels like we’re going to win every day, and I look at them and say, that is what a winning club feels like when they show up to the park. That is what championship teams feel like.
There was the Jack Clark Series, where Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda failed to walk Jack Clark before the Cardinals slugger hit an eventual game-winning home run in the 1985 NL Championship Series.There was the Hanley Ramirez Series, where then-Cardinals pitcher Joe Kelly hit the Dodgers’ hot-hitting shortstop in the ribs in the first inning of the first game of the 2013 NLCS and the Dodgers offense never caught its breath.
“Our only focus is tomorrow,” said manager Dave Roberts on Tuesday. “Do whatever we can to prepare to win a ballgame.”That focus will start with Max Scherzer, who will square off against Wainwright in a battle of World Series rings. Scherzer has been the Dodgers’ pitching savior since joining the team a couple of months ago, making up for the loss of Trevor Bauer and the injury to Kershaw, but he’s not yet been officially christened a Dodger.
Cursed, though, in that their leading slugger Max Muncy will probably miss the playoffs after injuring his elbow in the season’s final game that wound up being meaningless.
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