Cody Bellinger, who drove in the series-clinching run against the Giants after a dreadful season at the plate, sparks the Dodgers to victory over the Braves.The next minute, Bellinger was walloping the ball far and high into the gathering mist, and Betts was driving the ball into a deep and unattended patch of green, and the grand old stadium was shaking at its core.
The Braves still lead the seven-game series two games to one, but it feels as if they’re on the ropes. The Braves still would be considered statistical favorites, but it feels like they’re doomed.The Dodgers will start Max Scherzer and Buehler on regular rest in Atlanta if they can just win one of the next two games here. Advantage Dodgers.
The Braves learned Tuesday what the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals have already learned earlier this postseason. To beat a team that has won three elimination games and one unofficial elimination game just this month — and three more last year — you have to squarely, soundly unequivocally knock them out cold.“We’ve been in that situation before,” said Bellinger. “It’s never going to just be easy and handed to us. We got to fight for it.
“I think everybody’s super aware of it, it’s impossible not to be aware of it,” said Betts. “But I think that’s a weak way to think of things. I think our mindset has been why are we going to focus on that when we are here now, we can win the game now, and all it takes is a hit or two, and then you get some energy, and then ... you forget that you’re down 0-2.”Will Smith led off the eighth by shortening his swing and grounding a ball down the right-field line for a single.
Then it got even louder when Chris Taylor singled, stole second, went to third on Matt Beaty’s grounder, and scored the eventual game-winner on Betts’ umpteenth memorable Dodgers moment.After dropping the first two games of the NLCS in Atlanta, Walker Buehler and the Dodgers look to turn the series around Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.
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