Austin Barnes' run-scoring single in the fifth inning helped break a scoreless tie and launch the Dodgers to a 3-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Clayton Kershaw pitched one of the best games of his career against the Brewers on Thursday, but he needs to show he can win the final game.After Milwaukee third baseman Luis Urias failed to complete a potential inning-ending 5-3 double play when he threw low to first base on AJ Pollock’s grounder, Barnes stepped to the plate with two on and two out in the fifth.
Two pitches later, Barnes grounded an 84-mph curve up the middle for an RBI single and a 1-0 lead. Mookie Betts followed with a two-run double to left for a 3-0 lead, which was more than enough support for dominating starter Clayton Kershaw, who“Austin throughout his career has had a really good ability to look over a baseball and control the strike zone, and that’s exactly what he did in that at-bat,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
“I went back and watched it on my phone, and it was just a hair off,” Woodruff said of the 1-2 pitch to Barnes. “But in the heat of the moment, in my eye, I thought it was a strike. … I didn’t get the call. I needed to move on and make a good pitch and wasn’t able to do that.” “I’m not trying to drive the ball so much this time, [I’m] taking what they give me,” Barnes said. “At the bottom of the lineup, with our lineup, you’re trying to get on base for Mookie, [Corey] Seager and all those guys following them.
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