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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate their 4-3 victory against the Atlanta Braves in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series at Globe Life Field on October 18, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. Ron Jenkins / Getty Images / AFP
Cody Bellinger hit a 120-foot home run and Mookie Betts made another staggering defensive play as the Los Angeles Dodgers advanced to their third World Series in the past four years with a 4-3 victory in seven games over Atlanta. Braves on Sunday.
Bellinger hit the game-winning homer in the seventh inning and Enrique Hernandez hit a pinch homer in the sixth for the Dodgers to win the final three games of the series after trailing the Braves 3-1.
The Dodgers will face the American League champion, the Tampa Bay Rays, who won their own game seven on Saturday in San Diego, beating the Houston Astros 4-2.
Game 1 of the 2020 World Series is Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.
Los Angeles lost in the 2017 World Series to the Houston Astros and in 2018 to the Boston Red Sox.
Only a few thousand fans were able to enter the 40,000-seat Arlington Stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic, but what they witnessed was a round-trip finish in a classic best-of-seven series between two of the League’s top teams. National.
The Braves jumped to 2-0 and 3-2, but each time the Dodgers were able to counterattack and level the score, including a rare pinch home run by Hernandez in the sixth that made it 3-3.
The Dodgers are in the playoffs for the eighth straight season and nearly every hitter in their lineup has World Series experience.
So it came as a huge surprise when his power play wore off early in the postseason. But they rediscovered it on the NLCS by hitting more than a dozen home runs.
Outfielder Bellinger not only hit the home run that gave Los Angeles the lead for the first time in the seventh game, but he made the final out in the game when Dodgers reliever Julio Urias got the Braves hitter Austin Riley will fly to center field.
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