Thirty-three scoreless innings! Dodger pitchers zero in on history in Game 1 win
Bats have flailed, balls have soared, runners have sprinted, and still…
Nobody can score off the Dodgers!
The New York Mets came to town Sunday as the hottest team in baseball, unfurling all their magic and unleashing all their miracles and still…
Nobody can score off the Dodgers!
Thirty-three innings, four games, a boatload of potential rallies in the most crucial of October moments and still…
Nobody can score off the Dodgers?
Believe it, because the Mets believe it, just like the San Diego Padres were forced into believing it, even though it refutes history and defies description.
Small-bat strategy pays off: Why Dodgers are embracing sacrifice bunts vs. Mets
It was exactly 36 years ago Tuesday that Kirk Gibson hit his famous walk-off home run off Dennis Eckersley and hobbled around the bases in Dodger Stadium, a 1988 World Series Game 1-winning shot that was so stunning it elicited this famous response from Jack Buck on the national radio broadcast: “I don’t believe … what I just saw!”
If Buck were still alive and in Chavez Ravine on Sunday night, he might have had a similar reaction to a pair of peculiar plays that lacked the drama of a walk-off homer but seemed almost as rare.
Not once, but twice in the first four innings of the National League Championship Series opener against the New York Mets, the Dodgers dropped perfectly placed sacrifice bunts, practically a lost art in today’s game.
Dodgers waste no time extending their dominance in NLCS Game 1 win
The Dodgers had been here before.
Coming off an emotional five-game division series against a National League West rival. Entering an NL Championship Series against a team with whom they were much less familiar. Four wins from reaching the World Series, and considered safe favorites to get there. But needing to regroup, and make a 48-hour shift from one series to the next.
In 2021, the Dodgers couldn’t do it. After defeating the San Francisco Giants in Game 5 of the NLDS, they lost Game 1 of the NLCS to the Atlanta Braves two days later. They never recovered. Their October ended early.
“We beat a really good team then and then played another really good team and lost, thinking that we could reset and get back into the flow,” recalled outfielder Mookie Betts, one of several holdovers from that 2021 team. “It doesn’t really work like that. I think it was a great learning experience for all of us.”
Three years later, they got to apply that knowledge this week.
Dodgers vs. Mets: How to watch and betting odds for Game 2
The Dodgers continue the postseason Monday when they face the New York Mets in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers lead the best-of-seven series 1-0.
The game is scheduled to start at 1:08 p.m. PDT and will air on Fox, FS1 and Fox Deportes. Radio broadcasts of the game will be on 570 AM and 1020 AM (Español) in the Los Angeles area.
Here’s the TV schedule for the remaining games in the series (all times Pacific):
Wednesday: Game 3 — Dodgers at New York Mets, 5:08 p.m. | FS1, FOXD
Thursday: Game 4 — Dodgers at New York Mets, 5:08 p.m. | FS1, FOXD
*Friday: Game 5 — Dodgers at New York Mets, 2:08 p.m. | FS1, FOXD
* Sunday, Oct. 20: Game 6 — New York Mets at Dodgers, 5:08 p.m. | FS1, FOXD
* Monday, Oct. 21: Game 7 — New York Mets at Dodgers, 5:08 p.m. | Fox, FS1, FOXD
*—if necessary