Grit Powers San Francisco Giants To NLDS Game 3 Win; Mother Nature Was Wearing Orange And Black

LOS ANGELES (CBS SF) — It’s thing machine analytics can’t measurement nor wealth tin buy. It’s called grit and it’s what powered the San Francisco Giants to a 1-0 triumph successful a pivotal Game 3 of their historical National League Divisional Series showdown with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

On insubstantial with the best-of-5 bid tied astatine 1-1, it appeared everything pointed to a Dodger triumph Monday night.

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The astir unbeatable Max Scherzer — 1 of baseball’s highest-paid pitchers astatine $34.5 cardinal a play — was connected the mound. Los Angeles had won 16 consecutive location games to extremity the regular play and the swagger had returned to a Dodger locker country filled with high-priced stars aft a 9-2 triumph successful Game 2.

But the steely volition that has powered San Francisco to a franchise-record 109 wins this play reared its head. A erstwhile Dodger pitcher — Alex Wood — and the talented San Francisco bullpen ripped the bosom retired of the Los Angeles batting order.

And past determination was Mother Nature. Even she was wearing Giants orangish and achromatic Monday night. The famed and fickle Santa Ana winds roared done LA.

But successful betwixt gusts — Evan Longoria, a seasoned who has been struggling astatine the sheet — launched the game’s lone homer into the left-field seats.

Meanwhile, an arsenic almighty bottom-of-the-ninth blast from Gavin Lux ignited a solemnisation successful Los Angeles dugout arsenic helium pumped his fist into the aerial definite helium had tied the game.

Mother Nature said nary way. A stiff headwind blasted the thrust arsenic it didn’t adjacent marque the informing way and was caught to extremity the game.

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“I mean, I knew I got each spot of it arsenic acold arsenic however hard I could deed a baseball,” Longoria said of his blast aft the game. “But, yeah, I mean, I wasn’t rather definite that it was going to spell out. I mean, the conditions contiguous were crazy. I mean, we were talking astir it coming over. It’s like, I don’t deliberation I stepped retired of the container arsenic galore times successful my vocation arsenic I person mid-at-bat tonight. A mates times I felt similar I was going to get blown implicit by the wind, a batch of particulate successful the eyes.”

Giants prima Brandon Crawford, whose been playing MVP caliber shot each year, came up with a antiaircraft gem to sphere the win. With a antheral connected second, Dodgers slugger Mookie Bett appeared to rip a enactment thrust to near to perchance knot the score.

But Crawford roseate up with an NBA-caliber leap and snagged the shot retired of the air.

“There’s not a full batch of clip for thing truly to spell done my head,” helium said. “Just drawback the ball. That’s each I’m thinking. I deliberation it had a small spot of topspin connected it, fortunately, truthful I was capable to just, and it was close implicit my head, truthful I was capable to conscionable leap and anticipation that it goes successful my glove.”

Fate tin beryllium arsenic fickle arsenic the Santa Ana breezes.

The result near Dodgers manager Dave Roberts facing a hard task. Win Tuesday oregon spell home.

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“Everything’s connected the array and our absorption has to crook to time and immoderate it takes to triumph time and past we’ll benignant of prime up the pieces aft that,” helium said.