The 2020 Major League Baseball League entered the three best wild card series with four games on Thursday. Three more teams – Brave, Athletics and Dodgers – pulled their tickets into the divisional rounds, while Pedres fought back in his series against the Cardinals to force a decisive game. Origin. The day was originally scheduled for a five-game, but Gamelins-Cubs game 2 rained and was pushed to Friday.
Below are the results from Thursday and the main gifts of the day.
Schedule / scores of the Wild Card Series
Kershaw set a personal record, the Dodgers advanced
The Los Angeles Dodgers advanced to the National League Divisional Series on Thursday after the Milwaukee Brewers won three of three wild card rounds.
The Dodgers were boosted by left-handed Clayton Kershaw, the way he has been numerous times in his big-league career. He gave vintage performances: combining his postseason career with eight innings, and an individual record with 13 strikeouts. Kershaw’s slider played a major role in his night, as the Brewers boomed 20 of the 32 swings they took against the pitch.
Brandon Woodruff, opposite Kershaw, put together a good start. Things came off the rails for Woodruff during the fifth inning, however, he scored three runs. Catcher Aust Stein Barnes delivered the first shot, making it 1-0. Mookie then doubled the pair of bats, giving the Dodgers an 3-0 lead.
The No. 1 seed Dodgers will play the winner of the San Diego Pedres-St. The Lewis Cardinals series, which ends Friday. Seed Brewers, ranked 8th, by contrast, will hit the drawing board and hope to establish better offense next season.
The brave finally move on; Again Scoreless Red
First things first, yes, we have to give Braves pitcher credit. In the two-match series against the Reds, basically the entire pitching of the pitching was dominated by the Braves. Sure, the Reds got 11 hits in Game 1, but it was 10 singles and one double. They scored 16 runs zero times in 13 innings. Max Fried and Relief Corps deserve credit. In Game 2, we have to credit Rookie Ian Anderson for having nails in his postseason debut, he recorded six innings of scoreless work in his six innings. He only allowed two hits, both singles.
Let’s also give credit to Marcel Ozuna for his two-run shot in the eighth, so that Bahadur can get a breathing room …
… and then Adam Duvl to put it out of reach.
There, we’ve got all the credit in their sweep of the brave.
Now, on to the Reds. Plays has a major league record of starting a 22-innings scoreless streak postseason. The Reds offense was 8 for 73 (.110) in a two-game series. His five walks and one hit run him to a .177 base non-base percentage. The snail was.181. It’s just a two-game sample, obviously, and if this were the first two games of the season we could call it a slow start. Instead, the Reds won 11 of their last 14 and got a stellar pitching for 20 innings before the bottom of the eighth on Thursday. And they’re going home swept away in two games in the winter.
Back to the brave end, however, let’s conclude on a positive note. The Brave have finally advanced to the playoff round. They have not done so since 2001. Since then, with one loss in the wild-card game, the NLDS has suffered eight losses (four in five games).
Eno Snap Elimination Game Skid
Land Cland Athletics rallied Wednesday to advance to the AL Division Series in a win-4 win-go home game to beat the Chicago White Sox. With three of the three wild card series wins, Ak Cland lost his MLB record series to nine consecutive losses in the winner-take-all games. This was the first match since Game 7 of the 1973 World Series to win the Elimination Game.
It is also the first time since 2006 that Caledon advanced to the first round of the postseason. The No. 2 seed will face divisional rivals in the ADDS and No. 6 seed the Houston Astros. Eno’s dominance in the regular season, ending 7-3 with the AL West title.
After the White Sox jumped to a 3-0 lead in the third, A responded with four runs in the fourth inning. Chicago tied the game in the fifth inning, but Chad Pinder led the two-run single with two outs in the fifth. It was the first run-scoring postseason hit by any of its runners with runners in the scoring position after Pinder’s RBI single 2014 AL wild card game.
To take more from this game, you can read our full break here.
Pedres ’crime comes to life
It was believed that Pedres, who has the NL’s second-best record and Bezab’s best offense in a regular season of 60 games, is on the verge of a quiet exit in a wild card series match against the Cardinals. Fernando Tatis Jr. then hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning on Thursday. Tetis ’Homer was the first of five for San Diego in three innings. Both Tatis and Will Myers hit two homers, making history in the process, leading to an 11-9 win. Read more about that game here.
The Marlins-Cubs were postponed due to the weather
Game 2, the best of three series between the Marlins and the Cubs, has been postponed to Friday. Full story here.
