Dodgers Beat Giants 9-2 To Even NLDS

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Julio Urías unopen down San Francisco and contributed an RBI azygous for his cause, Cody Bellinger and AJ Pollock delivered two-run doubles to stroke it unfastened successful the sixth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers pounded the Giants 9-2 connected Saturday nighttime to adjacent their NL Division Series astatine 1 crippled apiece.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts declared earlier successful the day, “We’re going to play this crippled fundamentally similar a bash oregon die,” and the reigning World Series champions did conscionable that by continuing to adhd on, including Will Smith’s leadoff homer successful the eighth.

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Now, NL West runner-up Los Angeles — 2nd spot contempt 106 wins — is close backmost successful it and headed location to Chavez Ravine with a accidental to thrust immoderate momentum.

The best-of-five bid shifts to Dodger Stadium for Game 3 connected Monday nighttime each square, hardly a astonishment considering however adjacent these clubs played for months. The 107-win Giants edged the Dodgers for the part connected the last time and took the play bid 10-9 but were outscored wide 80-78.

Urías deed an RBI azygous successful the 2nd to springiness Los Angeles the lead, and Mookie Betts followed with a run-scoring single.

And those “Let’s go, Giants!” chants were abruptly competing against the fired-up Los Angeles faithful’s “Let’s go, Dodgers!” successful a boisterous, mostly orangish sellout assemblage of 42,275.

San Francisco answered close backmost successful the bottommost fractional erstwhile Urías walked Wilmer Flores starring disconnected and gave up Brandon Crawford’s single. Flores precocious connected Evan Longoria’s heavy flyball to halfway and scored connected a sacrifice alert by Donovan Solano.

Urías hardly looked rattled.

Leading up to his start, the 25-year-old lefty stressed however facing these Giants would instrumentality an immense absorption — and the 20-game victor definite looked the portion from archetypal transportation successful outdueling Giants All-Star right-hander Kevin Gausman.

Urías went unbeaten implicit his last 17 regular-season starts since June 21, going 11-0 during that agelong that included a Sept. 4 triumph present astatine raucous Oracle Park. He struck retired 5 and walked 1 implicit 5 innings Saturday, giving up 1 tally connected 3 hits.

Gausman, furiously chomping his bubble gum, had a pugnacious enactment to travel aft a gem by Logan Webb successful his postseason debut a nighttime earlier, erstwhile the right-hander and a brace of relievers held the slugging Dodgers to 5 hits successful a 4-0 victory.

Trea Turner doubled starring disconnected the sixth, and aft Justin Turner struck out, Smith walked to pursuit Gausman aft 5 1/3 innings successful which helium struck retired 7 and walked three.

Trea Turner besides contributed 2 stellar antiaircraft plays astatine 2nd base, portion Betts thwarted a imaginable Giants rally successful the sixth with a cleanable propulsion from close tract to drawback Wilmer Flores astatine third.

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Buster Posey’s sixth-inning azygous gave him 54 vocation playoff hits, astir successful Giants postseason history. He had 3 hits successful the game.

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Roberts went with Bellinger astatine archetypal basal — helium played 4 games determination this twelvemonth and 19 successful 2020 — successful bid to get Chris Taylor’s bat successful the lineup. Taylor deed the decisive two-run homer successful the ninth inning of Wednesday’s 3-1 wild-card triumph implicit the Cardinals.

Taylor doubled successful his archetypal at-bat with 1 retired successful the 2nd and coiled up 2 for 4 with a walk.

Bellinger came through, too.

The 2019 NL MVP slumped to a .165 mean successful the regular play and was 0 for 5 with 4 strikeouts successful the bid earlier turning this 1 into a rout with his treble successful the sixth.

Before that, determination had been 75,528 occasions that a subordinate batted 50-plus times against a squad successful 1 play — postseason included — since 1903, and Bellinger’s .038 mean (2 for 53) versus the Giants was the lowest of immoderate of those players, according to SportRadar.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Dodgers: Los Angeles remains hopeful of having 1B Max Muncy backmost successful enactment if the Dodgers advance. The slugger dislocated his near elbow successful the regular-series finale Sunday aft a collision with Milwaukee’s Jace Peterson astatine first. Muncy, who batted .250 with 36 homers, isn’t expected to request surgery.

Giants: 1B Brandon Belt was having his breached near thumb re-evaluated by manus specializer Dr. Scott Hansen. Belt and the Giants anticipation helium volition heal successful clip for a instrumentality successful the NLCS should the Giants advance.

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Kapler planned to denote his Game 3 starter afterward, apt left-hander Alex Wood oregon 13-game-winning righty Anthony DeSclafani. Roberts hadn’t announced his plans either. Sunday is simply a time off.