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Alden Gonzalez
Los Angeles – in addition to their ability to play and stretch and stretch the boundaries of imagination, Shohei era He showed another unique feature in the main leagues: the ability to meet this moment. Or maybe, to meet him for now.
And so on Wednesday evening, with his Los Angeles Dodgers The score is to remain undefeated, at the bottom of the ninth and more than 50,000 fans, and the BobBleeads were stood out, which stood in advance, the emples approached the dough box – and his teammates expected size.
“It will end here,” Basman Dodgers Max Muncy He said he thought.
“We knew,” a novice pitcher Blake Snell said. “It’s exactly what he does.”
Verification came immediately. The era has remained back to change the first playground from Raisel Iglesias Near the outer corner and shot to the direct center of the field, 399 feet away, for home run, sends Dodgers to 6-5, comes from victory over the winding Atlanta Braves.
“I don’t think anyone would expect a home run,” Dodgers Utility Man Tommy Edman said. “It’s just a question of where he hit it.”
Dodgers are 8-0 and culminates 1933 New York Yankees Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth started the season for the ruling champion. Meanwhile, Braves are 0-7, the type of record that no team renewed from the playoffs. And era, three home runs and 1.126 Ops this season, just meet moments.
“He’s pretty good, huh?” Dodgers Outfielder Teoscar hernandez said. “It’s shohei. He’ll do it. She’ll do things better than that.”
23. August Reaches reached the 40/40 club with Grand Slam. Five days later, Dodgers organized the second to reveal his Bobbleead-Ten, who saw his now famous dog, Decoy, managed the first playground-and the erase took the home run. On September 19, the erases won their first postseason bed and performed to the unprecedented 50/50 club with one of the biggest performances in the baseball history-six hits, three homery, two theft and 10 RBI. Hardly two weeks later he saved in his first play -off game.
When the era came on Wednesday, he had what he described as a simple approach.
“I was looking for a really good playground,” he said through an interpreter. “If I didn’t get a good playground to hit, I was willing to walk.”
Of course, he got a good playground.
And of course he sent it.
“You just feel he’ll do something special,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “And I just like the way he doesn’t push. He’s on a strike, and if he does it, it’s just no one better.”
Dodgers started his highly anticipated season with some fresh victory over Chicago Cubs in Japan, although Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman He didn’t play. They returned home, brought an iconic rapper ice cube to introduce the trophy of the World Series one afternoon, receive the rings next night and sweep a series of three games against Detroit Tigers. Then Braves came and Dodgers also swept them – although Freeman, he treated the ankle injury caused by slipping in the shower, did not participate.
Dodgers already have two wins and six victories in comeback this season.
Wednesday’s efforts Roberts left “a little stunning”.
The nightmare defensively, highlighted by two Muncy, spoiled Snell’s start and after the first shift and a half La stood in 5-0. But Dodgers were still approaching. In the eighth place they only stretched by two and the second and third place with two out with two out. Muncy came to the plate with its batting diameter to only 0.83. For his first three plates he used Balllyhooed Torpedo Bat, he did not like how his rocking plane changed, grabbed his usual bat for clearing against Iglesias and covered the binding double into the gap of the right center.
Later the era ended.
“Overall, not only tonight, there is a really good atmosphere on the team,” the oral said after he recorded his fourth hit in his career. “I think it allows us to return to these games to win.”
The beginning of the Dodgers 8-0 allowed them to stay before 7-0 San Diego Padres and 5-1 San Francisco Giants in the National League in the West. Stick to Arizona Diamondbacks (4-2) and Colorado Rockies (1-4), for the first time in the divisional era that the whole division combined at least 25 wins and no more than seven losses, according to ESPN research. The beginning of Dodgers and Padres reflect only the fifth season in the history of the main league, with more teams starting 7-0 or better and for the first time since 2003.
Dodgers exceeded the 2-1 series deficit to defeat the Padres series in the NL Division series last year, then since 1988 he has been running at the first seasonal championship.
He did not let go.
“It looks like this club house has a little attitude we had last year, that we were never out of the game and we were resistant, and we wore it this season,” Muncy said. “It was fun to watch. The boys don’t give up. The bad things happened and no one was really down. The whole team, from the bottom down, did that.
