Chris Taylor's two-run homer in the ninth lifts the Dodgers to a 3-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL wild-card game.
“These are the type of moments you dream about and live for,” Taylor said. “I’ll be able to look back on this the rest of my life.”
For all the firepower saturating the top half of the Dodgers’ lineup, it was Bellinger, a former MVP who batted .165 this season, and Taylor, who faded down the stretch, fueling the season-saving charge from the bottom. But the Dodgers thought the sage tío on their bench would play hero first. He worked his second walk of the night to reach base for the third time to give the inning life and induce McFarland’s exit. He added oxygen by stealing second base for the second time in three innings with Taylor at the plate. The buzz in the ballpark suddenly amplified.
The elimination contest was the Dodgers’ first postseason game in front of a human crowd — not cardboard duplicates — at home since Game 5 of the 2019 NLDS. The Washington Nationals won that night, stunning and abruptly eliminating the 106-win Dodgers from the playoffs. Scherzer went to three-ball counts to five of the first 11 batters he faced, ballooning his pitch count to 43 through two innings. He continued misfiring over the next three innings but kept the Cardinals off the board.The beginning of his end resembled the beginning of the game: Edman singled and Goldschmidt walked to start the fifth inning. O’Neill then struck out on Scherzer’s 94th pitch, but Roberts had made his decision: Scherzer was coming out.
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