Webb Brilliant As Giants Take NLDS Game 1 Over Dodgers 4-0

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS13) — Rocklin’s Logan Webb enactment connected a show-stopping show from the mound striking retired 10 arsenic the San Francisco Giants rolled done the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 successful Game 1 of the NLDS Friday night.

Buster Posey besides deed a two-run homer that held up. Those 2 Giants standouts summed up this twelvemonth perfectly for the NL West champs: A superb show by the young right-hander supported by a seasoned catcher who has shined connected this large October signifier truthful galore times before.

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Kris Bryant and Brandon Crawford besides homered to backmost a combined five-hitter by Webb and a brace of relievers.

IN PHOTOS: NLDS Game 1 — Giants Vs. Dodgers

Everybody knows this matchup betwixt century-old rivals takes this best-of-five playoff bid to different level. They finished with baseball’s 2 champion records, the part coming down to the last time arsenic the Dodgers coiled up 1 crippled backmost with 106 wins, ending their tally of 8 consecutive West crowns.

That meant Los Angeles had to get by the Cardinals successful the wild-card crippled Wednesday nighttime past alert consecutive to the Bay Area.

The Dodgers volition effort to adjacent the bid erstwhile they nonstop 20-game victor Julio Urías to the mound for Game 2 connected Saturday nighttime other Giants All-Star right-hander Kevin Gausman.

Webb waved his pitching manus walking disconnected to a rousing ovation successful the eighth aft a two-out azygous by Mookie Betts. He didn’t locomotion a batter.

Tyler Rogers relieved for the last retired successful the eighth and Camilo Doval worked the ninth.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler, making his ain playoff debut connected the dugout’s apical step, had implicit assurance the 24-year-old Webb would radiance successful the biggest commencement of his life. Just past Sunday, Webb pitched the Giants past the Padres successful the regular-season finale arsenic San Francisco clinched the club’s archetypal part rubric since 2012. Webb hasn’t mislaid since May 5 astatine Colorado.

Featuring a changeup and slider, Webb was successful full command.

Tommy La Stella deed a brace of singles and played sparkling defense, getting things started by drafting a five-pitch locomotion from Buehler successful the bottommost of the first.

That acceptable things up for Posey, who sat retired past year’s coronavirus-shortened play to attraction for prematurely calved adopted duplicate girls. He clobbered a 3-0 transportation into a water-spraying pillar supra the right-field arcade with 2 outs successful the archetypal to nonstop the orange-towel waving sellout assemblage of 41,934 into a frenzy.

Kapler said Posey could play each postseason game, and wherefore not? At property 34, the seasoned catcher started 5 of the last six regular-season games and 10 of 13 wide to extremity the season. This marked his archetypal postseason location tally since Game 4 of the 2012 World Series astatine Detroit disconnected Max Scherzer.

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La Stella stopped Justin Turner’s crisp grounder to 2nd basal successful the 4th and successful the aforesaid question flipped the shot to Crawford, and the shortstop who fired to archetypal baseman Wilmer Flores for an inning-ending treble play.

This is the archetypal postseason gathering betwixt the storied franchises whose past goes mode backmost to their days successful New York. In 1951 and 1962 the teams faced disconnected successful a best-of-three NL tiebreaker with the Giants winning each of those successful three.

Webb dazzled connected a nighttime San Francisco 49ers Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Steve Young led the “Beat LA!” chant earlier archetypal pitch. Home tally king Barry Bonds drew a lasting ovation, stood and waved erstwhile shown connected the large surface successful the mediate innings sitting with NBA Hall of Famer Chris Mullin.

Bryant, acquired successful a midseason commercialized with the Cubs, homered for the Giants. Buehler lowered his caput with hands connected knees arsenic the shot sailed implicit the left-field fence.

Crawford homered successful the eighth.

Buehler had been 7-0 beingness against the Giants earlier taking a nonaccomplishment Sept. 5 successful the play bid finale arsenic San Francisco edged L.A. 10-9 — with the Dodgers holding an 80-78 vantage successful runs.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Dodgers: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts went with lefty David Price among his 12 pitchers implicit chap southpaw Justin Bruihl, who made his large league debut successful August and isn’t idiosyncratic Los Angeles is comfy with pitching back-to-back days yet. Regarding Price, Roberts noted the pluses, “I deliberation with David, surely the experience, the quality to adhd immoderate length, a neutral arm.” In fact, Roberts didn’t regularisation retired considering Price arsenic an opener for Game 4.

Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto was near disconnected San Francisco’s roster aft helium missed important clip done the play with elbow troubles. “Very pugnacious decision. I deliberation we would person liked to person had him stretched retired and possibly considered him arsenic idiosyncratic who could commencement 1 of these games for us,” Kapler said. “We conscionable weren’t capable to get there, and that’s tough. In peculiar it’s pugnacious due to the fact that Johnny has meant truthful overmuch to the organization.” … 1B Brandon Belt is sidelined by a breached near thumb that helium hopes volition heal successful clip for a instrumentality successful the NLCS should the Giants advance.

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Urías (20-3, 2.96 ERA) hasn’t mislaid successful 17 starts since June 21, going 11-0 implicit that agelong that included a Sept. 4 triumph astatine Oracle Park.

“It’s a large crippled and I volition person the maximum focus,” Urías said.

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Gausman (14-6, 2.81) was 0-1 implicit his last 4 starts pursuing 5 consecutive winning decisions. But helium allowed 1 tally implicit 7 innings past Saturday successful an eventual extra-innings nonaccomplishment to San Diego.