Jack Flaherty mixed on a three-hitter and Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers tied the postseason document of 33 consecutive scoreless innings as they routed the New York Mets 9-0 on Sunday evening within the NL Championship Collection opener.
Los Angeles knocked out a wild Kodai Senga within the second inning, constructed a six-run lead by the fourth and matched the scoreless document set by Baltimore Orioles pitchers over the primary 4 video games of the 1966 World Collection towards the Dodgers.
Backed by chants of “MVP! MVP!,” Shohei Ohtani was 2 for 4 with a stroll whereas scoring two runs and driving in one other.
Flaherty allowed two hits over seven innings within the Dodgers’ first scoreless postseason begin of seven-plus innings since Clayton Kershaw’s eight innings within the 2020 NL Wild Card Collection. Flaherty left to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 53,503. The 28-year-old right-hander from close by Burbank returned house from Detroit on the 30 July commerce deadline and has been a steadying presence in a rotation hard-hit by accidents.
Flaherty retired his first 9 batters, extending the Dodgers’ streak of consecutive hitters retired to twenty-eight, earlier than strolling Francisco Lindor main off the fourth. New York’s solely hits off him had been a pair of singles by Jesse Winker and Jose Iglesias within the fifth. Flaherty struck out six.
Lindor was 0 for 3 with a stroll and a strikeout and Pete Alonso went hitless in three at-bats with a stroll and a strikeout.
The Dodgers rallied from the brink of elimination towards San Diego to win the NL Division Collection in 5 video games with shutouts within the final two video games.
They opened their pursuit of a document twenty fifth NL pennant by chasing Senga after one and a 3rd innings of his third begin in a yr riddled with accidents.
Recreation 2 of the best-of-seven sequence is on Monday.
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