Giants Lose Heartbreaker As Dodgers Advance To NLCS

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS13) — An all-time play for the San Francisco Giants has travel to an end.

Cody Bellinger deed a tiebreaking azygous successful the ninth inning and prized midseason acquisition Max Scherzer came retired of the bullpen for a save, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers past San Francisco 2-1 successful a thrilling winner-take-all Game 5 connected Thursday nighttime and into the NL Championship Series.

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Bellinger’s large deed came aft a 3-for-14 showing this postseason and capped a scintillating NL Division Series it seemed cipher wanted to spot extremity fixed the endowment and triumph totals progressive successful the latest breathtaking section of this storied rivalry.

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Mookie Betts had a postseason career-high 4 hits and volition pb the adjacent measurement successful LA’s title defence astatine Atlanta for Game 1 of the NLCS connected Saturday.

Camilo Doval plunked Justin Turner with 1 retired successful the ninth and Gavin Lux past singled earlier Bellinger delivered his astir meaningful deed successful a scrutinized season.

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Scherzer, the Game 3 loser who came from Washington astatine the commercialized deadline, closed retired a best-of-five bid definite to spell down among the respective classics these franchises person played — close up determination with the 1951 and ’62 clubs that each matched up successful three-game tiebreakers for the NL pennant that the Giants won each time.