Dodgers finally get to Jesús Luzardo in pressure-packed seventh inning

Starter Fillis Hesus Luzardo released 17 batteries in a row, entering the seventh Inning game of the series of the National League division on Monday. A DODERS I had no blow or Beonner from the first.

And it did not look as if they would get different.

“Luzardo,” Dodger said the first person from the bottom Freddy Freeman“It was amazing.”

Nevertheless, it was Freeman who laid the workshop of the night of Luzardo and pushed the season Phillis on the edge, Occupying the victory of 4-3 dooders This sends a series of the best of five In Los -Angels for the game 3 On Wednesday with Philadelphia, losses from spring training.

“This is huge. This is absolutely huge “, manager of the Doders Dave Roberts It is said about the deployment of two games on the road. “The guys are really activated.”

Especially in the seventh, when the Dodders beat around, creating the type of intoning that they rarely controlled in the regular season, in which aggressive bats, smart basic and three two -story ICR were represented.

“All this is together; It’s just very good in Yalochka up and down in turn, ”Roberts said.

Theskar Ernandes began him from one to the center. Freeman followed the blow from the end of his bat to the right corner, the single, which he turned into a double, when he first refused to stop, it is amazing that the amazing outfielder Nick Castellanos.

“I tried to preserve everything by putting pressure on them,” Freeman said. “I just wanted to push the envelope in this situation, since we had nothing from the first intoning.”

Luzardo abandoned one blow through six taxes; Now he refused two in the interval of five steps.

“He retired 17 in a row. He had 72 steps. He is well versed, ”said manager Fillis Rob Thomson.

But after Freeman’s strike, he was completed when Thomson called the liberator Orion Kerkering. The Dodders, however, was just starting, and later Ernandez advanced them forward to stay, smartly from the third on the embankment, and then plunged into the back of the plate to defeat the short -stop Terner Turner.

Pinch chiter Max Mansi followed with a four chalk walk to download the base for Will Smith, whose single in the first step he saw, drove two more runes.

“In this situation, it is very easy to try to want to do too much,” Mansi said. “You have a chance to drive in a pair of jogging. It is very easy to pursue the feed. But you just have to be zealous with what you are trying to do there, and just transfer the baton to the next guy. ”

Will Smith Doders scored a double -lane single during the seventh Inning of the 2 NLD game on Monday.

(Robert Gauthier / Los -Angeles Times)

The Doders rally was built around the double, which was to be the only one, the choice of a field player who barely passed the embankment, walk and single Smith to the left, the strongest ball of Inining. When Shohei Otani Founded on the single from the second bottom, Edmundo Sosa, Dodgers brought 4-0.

“It is obvious that several huge strokes with two exits from Will, and then Shohei. A great game of theo that has fallen in the leg, ”Freeman said. “In this seventh Inning, many good things have occurred.”

Inning also fell silent in a crowd of sale in 45 653, which was a few minutes ago louder than a rock concert during Nascar race. When Matt Strams, the third jug Inning, finally received the flour of Betts for the third, the fans voiced Phillis from the field.

The crowd came to life again in the ninth, when the Doders, the absorbing Blake Train, melted again on the mound, refused three strokes and two runs, not letting Fillis return to the game. But Rocks Sasaki Then he pulled them out again, having resigned Turner on a grounded ball with a move in third place, earned his second salvation in the same number of games.

When it was over Phillis, who had the best home record in major this season, for the first time from June 1 lost consistent games. And the Dodders, invincible in this post -zone, won the series of the NL championship.

“A lot to unpack this,” Roberts said.

Freeman managed to place all this in the future.

“We just sat at our lockers, and Kike said:“ We just took two here, ”he said. “This is a difficult place for the game. Incredible fan base. It's loud here.

“We obviously set ourselves in an excellent position on Wednesday.”

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