Sunday, September 01, 2019

Dodgers Advance by Knocking Out Marlins



The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Miami Marlins in 6 games in a hard fought series.    A quick recap:


Game 1 - Dodgers 4, Marlins 2 (13 innings)
Miguel Sano hit a walk off homer in the bottom of the 13th to give LA the victory.


Game 2 - Marlins 8, Dodgers 7
Another close one.  Miami got four scoreless innings from their bullpen and Paul Goldschmidt hit a 3 run homer in the 7th for the go ahead run.


Game 3 - Dodgers 4, Marlins 0
Chacin, Morrow and Iglesais combine on a 4-hit shutout. Cesar Hernandez contributed with a double, triple, an rbi and a run scored.


Game 4 - Dodgers 6, Marlins 0 
Another combined shutout.  This time, it was Darvish, Good and Ryu on a 5-hitter.  Darvish fanned 13 in his 7 1/3 innings of work.


Game 5 - Marlins 5, Dodgers 4
Altuve hit a homer and a double with 2 ribbies and 2 runs scored to help Miami stay alive.  Altuve is hitting .381 in the post season so far.


Game 6 - Dodgers 9, Marlins 1
Dodgers knock out Verlander in the 5th as Justin gave up 8 hits and 7 runs in a balanced attack.  Cashner was solid by tossing 6 innings of 1 run ball for the win.


Los Angeles now faces their upstate rivals San Francisco in the semi-finals.





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