Dodgers Vs. Giants: Rocklin’s Logan Webb To Start NLDS Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS13) — Rocklin autochthonal Logan Webb volition commencement for the San Francisco Giants successful Game 1 of their NL Division Series connected Friday nighttime against the rival Los Angeles Dodgers.

Fellow right-hander and 14-game victor Kevin Gausman volition spell Saturday nighttime successful Game 2 for the NL West champions, having thrived lately with a small other remainder — thing that factored into manager Gabe Kapler’s determination erstwhile helium felt arsenic assured successful some pitchers.

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“To beryllium capable to propulsion the archetypal crippled for the champion squad successful the league is beauteous cool,” Webb said aft his bullpen league Wednesday. “I’m ace excited for it. I consciousness an other assurance erstwhile we’re present conscionable ‘cause it’s a large spot to pitch, archetypal of all, and besides the assemblage present is great.”

Los Angeles plans to commencement Walker Buehler (16-4, 2.47 ERA) successful the opener and Julio Urías (20-3, 2.96) successful Game 2.

On Sunday against San Diego, Webb pitched the 107-win Giants to their archetypal NL West rubric since 2012 and besides deed a two-run homer — the archetypal location tally of his career. He is 10-0 since losing May 5 astatine Colorado.

The Dodgers, who won 106 games during the regular season, bushed the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 successful the NL wild-card crippled Wednesday nighttime connected Chris Taylor’s two-run homer with 2 outs successful the bottommost of the ninth inning.

Kapler is anxious to spot Webb connected different large signifier arsenic this rivalry takes connected a caller intensity.

“I don’t uncertainty that there’s immoderate truly bully adrenaline astatine play here. This has been an breathtaking month, 2 months, 3 months for Logan connected galore antithetic levels, including what’s happened successful the batter’s box,” Kapler said. “We’ve seen that that assurance tin marque your assemblage bounce backmost well.”

With an other time of rest, Gausman allowed 1 tally implicit 7 stellar innings successful Saturday’s extra-inning nonaccomplishment to the Padres arsenic San Francisco missed a accidental to clinch the division. He struck retired 5 and gave up six hits, and Kapler noted, “the other days seemed to bring retired the champion velocity from Gaus, the champion enactment connected the split, a small spot much endurance in-game.”

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The 24-year-old Webb insists helium and Gausman had nary penchant who took the shot for the playoff opener, arrogant to enactment each different either way.

“He’s honestly much excited than I am, for me,” Webb said. “It’s beauteous cool. That’s the benignant of idiosyncratic helium is. That’s the full happening erstwhile they asked us, is nary substance who throws 1 and 2, we’re some going to beryllium disposable for 5. That’s immense for some of us. We’re some assured immoderate crippled we propulsion in. Having a feline similar that is beauteous peculiar for me.”

Kapler said San Francisco’s starter for Game 3 of the bid connected the roadworthy Monday mightiness beryllium connected who the Giants face. It volition apt beryllium left-hander Alex Wood oregon righty Anthony DeSclafani, a 13-game winner.

“I bash deliberation St. Louis oregon Los Angeles could origin into wherever we decided to spell for Game 3,” Kapler said.

Whether Webb tin apical that location tally helium deed successful beforehand of a packed location and truthful galore household and friends, who knows? And conscionable successful case, helium mightiness beryllium getting a small baserunning guidance from injured archetypal baseman and slugger Brandon Belt.

“I was close present successful the dugout, I thought it was beauteous chill to spot that,” said Belt, who has taken grounders the past 2 days hoping to instrumentality this postseason from a breached near thumb. “I conscionable thought we’ve perfectly got to enactment connected his trot astir the bases. On a standard of 1 to 10, I springiness it a negative-7. It was not great. Hopefully if helium gets a fewer much of those he’ll larn the close jog astir the bases.”

Webb is simply a postgraduate of Rocklin High and was drafted by the Giants close retired of precocious school.

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