![]() “I had a 1-1 cutter that will not let me sleep tonight,” Freeman said of the at-bat. They put two runners on with two outs in the fifth but Gallen froze Freeman with a full-count curveball for a called third strike. Martinez in the fourth inning was the Dodgers’ only damage against Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen. They held the line for a rally that never materialized.Ī solo home run by J.D. He backed that up early, pulling Miller in the second inning and going to his two best relievers for much of the season, Graterol and Ryan Brasier, followed by Joe Kelly and Evan Phillips, extending each of them. On the off day on Sunday, Roberts said he would manage Game 2 like a Game 7. No matter what, you gotta figure out a way.” It makes it tough, but it’s still doable, man. They’re giving those guys a lead and letting them pitch downhill. “But they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. “Oh it makes it exponentially harder – especially when you give guys like that (Gallen and Game 1 starter Merrill Kelly) a lead,” Betts said. Coupled with the Diamondbacks’ six-run first inning against Kershaw in Game 1, it was the first time all year the Dodgers gave up three or more runs in the first innings of back-to-back games. The Diamondbacks scored three runs in the first inning. ![]() “There were just too many times where I fell behind in the count with my offspeed pitches which caused them to be on time for the fastball.” “Just get a little too jumpy when I’m feeling that good and let it eat a little too much instead of slowing things down. Physically, it was the best I ever felt,” Miller said. Only four were strikes and the Diamondbacks swung at just two. Miller threw 15 breaking pitches (10 curveballs and five sliders) in the game. Only eight of his first 18 pitches found the strike zone including just two first-pitch strikes to the seven batters he faced in the first inning. Miller lasted 11 batters, retiring five of them (one on a sacrifice bunt). The failures of their depleted starting rotation, however, have hogged the spotlight in the first two games.Īfter Clayton Kershaw’s disastrous start in Game 1, the Dodgers turned to the 24-year-old Miller, hoping that the rookie nicknamed ‘Bobby Ice’ would not melt on the postseason stage. They understand their responsibilities, their role on this ballclub.” ![]() “The last thing I want to do, though, is be redundant in the sense of, ‘We need these guys.’ When you start getting into that kind of mindset, it’s just – in baseball and hitting, in particular – it’s just not helpful. … We all know that,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Their twin MVP candidates, Betts and Freddie Freeman, have gone a combined 1 for 13 with an infield single by Freeman in the first inning of Game 2 their only hit. The lineup that produced more than 900 runs during the regular season has scored just two in each NLDS game. The Dodgers’ offense has been punchless so far. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. “They have some good pitchers and they’re making it tough. “But sometimes you have to play the cards that you’re dealt and being down 2-0 is what we’ve been dealt. “Nobody dreams this,” said Mookie Betts, 2 for 21 in the Dodgers’ past two postseason series. No one is going to pick us to beat the Dodgers when we haven’t played well against them. “Why would we play with anything to lose? We were the sixth seed. “I think we’re playing with nothing to lose,” Diamondbacks closer Paul Sewald said. And they have trailed for all 18 innings of the series. Their two starting pitchers allowed nine runs while recording six outs. 159 (10 for 63) as a team in the first two games. They’ve still got to win another game and we know we can do this.” “Stuff happens, you know,” Dodgers starting pitcher Bobby Miller said. The Dodgers have looked like dead men walking through much of the first two games of their National League Division Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks and a 4-2 loss in Game 2 on Monday night has pushed them to the brink of elimination. Or was it more foreshadowing than a callback? It was a reference to Graterol’s costume when the team dressed up on the final road trip of the regular season. LOS ANGELES - When Brusdar Graterol entered in the second inning Monday night, the theme song of wrestling star “The Undertaker” played over the stadium sound system.
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