Dodgers beat Brewers for sixth straight safe, defend alive in NL West bustle in opposition to rival Giants
The Dodgers remain alive within the Nationwide League West bustle going into the most effective day of the frequent season on Sunday.
Los Angeles prevailed over the Brewers at residence on Saturday evening by a salvage of 8-3 (field salvage) for their sixth safe in a row. That victory in tandem with the Giants‘ loss to the Padres in additional innings earlier on Saturday implies that the Dodgers (105-56) now lunge San Francisco (106-55) by most titillating a single sport within the NL West standings. One more Dodger safe over Milwaukee on Sunday and one other Giants loss to the Padres would power a Sport 163 tiebreaker on Monday at San Francisco (the Giants will host because they won the frequent season assortment between the two groups).
The winner of that sport would possibly perchance perchance be NL West champs and come to the NLDS to face the winner of the NL Wild Card Sport. The loser of that tiebreaker — i.e., the NL West runner-up — would host the Cardinals on Wednesday within the Wild Card Sport. While either the Dodgers or Giants would possibly perchance perchance be most neatly-liked over the Cardinals in that sport, one-and-done postseason encounters are highly dangerous for the present team. Clearly, the Dodgers and Giants maintain heavy incentives to steer particular of this kind of subject and come straight to doubtlessly the most easy-of-five NLDS as division champs.
In Saturday’s ample safe, Julio Urias gave the Dodgers 6 1/3 innings of one-trip ball and in doing so diminished his ERA for the season to 2.96. Urias additionally picked up his MLB-main 20th safe of the season. Powering the offense had been third baseman Justin Turner, outfielder A.J. Pollack and shortstop Corey Seager, who all homered. Los Angeles is now 42-13 since August 1. This year’s mannequin becomes correct the third team in Dodger franchise historical previous to safe now not now not up to 105 video games in a season. The Dodgers previously won 105 video games in 1953 and a franchise-file 106 video games in 2019.
The Dodgers are vying to safe the NL West title for the ninth straight year. The perfect team instead of the Dodgers to safe the division become once the Giants in 2012.