It was the day of the Dodger Stadium team on Tuesday, one of these picturesque baseball traditions that endured well after its usefulness.
The team therefore set up three rows of aluminum efficiency in the shallow central field and the players, wearing incredibly brilliant white uniforms, were closed of the clubhouse just before 15 hours, passing the practice of the striker to pose for the cameras. For a sport that thrives on the routine, the afternoon had a unique atmosphere of the last day of the school.
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“It’s a strange day,” said manager Dave Roberts.
But the day of the image is also used to end the season, as it generally occurs in the last three weeks. And the players who climb these elevators are those who will decide the fate of the team.
It was particularly true for Dodgerswho rolled another splendid pitch performance – this one from Emmet Sheehan – to A 7-2 victory On the rocks of Colorado. The victory was the third consequence of the team, a victory in less to correspond to its best sequence of the second half.
And this result, combined with the loss of San Diego against Cincinnati, expanded dodgers’ Direct in the West National League two games during second place Padres with only 17 to play.
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“He heads for the thread,” said Roberts.
The pitching rotation is certainly in the form of after-season, displaying an MPM of 1.41 in the last five games. Tuesday, it was the turn of Sheehan on the mound and he deposited the first 15 Rockies in order, becoming the third Dodger starter in four games to take a boost in the sixth round.
He ended up dispersing three strokes and a seven -round walk, withdrawing nine to win his fourth victory in five decisions. The victory was also the fourth victory of Sheehan in as many appearances against Colorado.
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Strikers? Not so much.
The Dodgers entered the second on Tuesday to last in the majors with an average of 3.14 points per game in September. But against the Colorado Starter, Germán Márquez (3-13), whose era (6.31) looks more like a mortgage rate, they needed less than four rounds to exceed this number.
Will Smith gave the Dodgers the advance for good in the second, doubling on the left in his first bat of the bat since his care of his right hand six days earlier. He took the third at the enclosure, then scored on wild land.
A round later, Shohei Ohtani walked with Two Out and Mookie Betts followed with a Home Run, increasing the advance to 3-0 and performing his sequence to reach the base in complete safety at 15 consecutive games. The solo circuit of Teoscar Hernández on full field-its first circuit since August 20-was 4-0 in the fourth and the Bad-Hop single of Ohtani, the first goal player, Michael Toglia scored Andy Pages to make it 5-0 later.
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Márquez’s night was more than three strikers later.
At that time, the game had been decided and the accent turned to Sheehan, who only needed 59 locations to cross five perfect sleeves, withdrawing five. But the suspense – and the perfect game – ended quickly when Kyle Karros bordered the first sheehan throw from the sixth round on a maximum skipping muncy in third row for a single.
Two other singles brought Karros to score, also ending the laundering.
Sheehan (6-3) was not released for the eighth, Roberts calling Alex Vesia and Kirby Yates to close the game. Vesia, launching for the first time since entering the list of injuries with oblique tension last month, launched an eighth perfect, withdrawing two, while Yates abandoned a solo circuit of two outsth of the season, in the ninth.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
