True Blue LA - NLDS Game 5: Dodgers 4, Nationals 3Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilledhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/49563/truebluela_fav.png2016-10-14T00:36:50-07:00http://www.truebluela.com/rss/stream/130318592016-10-14T00:36:50-07:002016-10-14T00:36:50-07:00Outside the box, and into the NLCS
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<p>Hill: ‘It was everybody, and it was awesome to see.’</p> <p id="LpGT79">I’m not even sure where to begin.</p>
<p id="r5m7R0">The Dodgers won a baseball game on Thursday night in one of the most unique, unconventional and thrilling ways possible. But <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13276630/dodgers-win-somehow-kenley-jansen-clayton-kershaw-nationals-game-5-nlds">their 4-3 win over the Nationals</a> was not only a game that will be remembered for years to come had they won or lost, but it was also a 4½-hour test of wills.</p>
<p id="4YcOHm">The seventh inning took 66 minutes from top to bottom, and was almost a game in itself. But to start there does a disservice to the amazing six frames that came before it.</p>
<p id="xbifbt">Rich Hill started on three days rest for the first <em>real</em> time in his career, and threw 55 pitches in recording his eight outs. He allowed a run and struck out six. </p>
<p id="0dxTTX">“It was what we’ve been doing the whole year,” Hill told Alanna Rizzo after the game, on SportsNet LA. “It was everybody, and it was awesome to see.”</p>
<p id="93fDvc">He might have allowed another, leaving two on base as he left, but...</p>
<p id="fahdvK">Setup man Joe Blanton entered the game with two outs in the third, his earliest appearance of the season, by two innings. Blanton recorded four outs, getting the team through four innings, and leaving a clean slate.</p>
<p id="U1qbQr">Julio Urias, pitching in his first game in 14 days, started the fifth inning and got through the sixth without allowing a run. Urias is <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13271254/julio-urias-youngest-pitcher-dodgers-playoffs-mlb-history">the youngest Dodger ever to pitch in the postseason</a>, the 4th-youngest in MLB to pitch in the postseason, and the youngest ever to win.</p>
<p id="vC5jZN">There was the bizarre decision of Jayson Werth trying to score on a double in the sixth inning, only to be thrown out at the plate by 20 feet.</p>
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<p id="WjH1i8">The Dodgers were through six innings having only allowed a run, but that still saw them trailing Max Scherzer, 1-0. But Scherzer was at 98 pitches, thanks to some patient plate appearances, none more than by Justin Turner, who drew a 13-pitch walk in the fourth inning. That was part of the 30-pitch inning that produced no runs but put a few extra clicks on Scherzer’s odometer.</p>
<p id="fnWuyc">Joc Pederson took Scherzer’s first pitch of the seventh inning over the left field wall, tying the game and giving the team new life, while also joining Lou Johnson and Rick Monday <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13279484/joc-pederson-home-run-dodgers-history-lou-johnson-rick-monday">as Dodgers to homer in winner-take-all postseason games</a>.</p>
<p id="0emFQ9">Carlos Ruiz, who homered as a pinch hitter in Game 3 against left-hander Gio Gonzalez, drove in the go-ahead run with a pinch single against left-hander Sammy Solis in the seventh inning, confirming every stated reason why the Dodgers traded for him.</p>
<p id="HnaGmg">Ruiz drove in pinch-runner Austin Barnes:</p>
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<p id="Ftw5cY">Turner added to the lead with a triple off the center field wall, scoring two for a 4-1 lead. The third baseman, who was 10-for-19 (.526) with six doubles in the 2015 NLDS, was 6-for-15 (.400) this time around, with a home run, five RBI, five walks, two hit by pitch and a .591 on-base percentage in the 2016 NLDS. In 10 postseason starts, Turner has reached base at least twice in all 10.</p>
<p id="Q0DyCg">Staked to a 4-1 lead and nine outs to go, the Dodgers were riding high, but that cushion was erased almost immediately when Grant Dayton allowed a two-run home run followed by a single to open the inning. The Dodgers still had nine outs to go but now just a one-run lead and the tying run on base.</p>
<p id="R47PnD">Enter Kenley Jansen, in his earliest appearance since April 20, 2013.</p>
<p id="W476Eb">“Doc just told me to be ready, it might be in the seventh,” Jansen told Rizzo. “I just tried to slow myself down, pitch after pitch.”</p>
<p id="SqAAPS">Those pitches just kept coming for Jansen, who got trough the seventh and the eighth, and <em>then started the ninth inning</em>. Jansen recorded seven outs, a career high, and threw 51 pitches, another personal high, and only four fewer pitches than the starter, Hill.</p>
<p id="YVwNpa">Jansen was in the game long enough to get his second plate appearance of the series, and laid down a sacrifice bunt.</p>
<p id="BoSsRM">It was a throwback to the 1970s and 1980s use of firemen, when long outings were the norm. And every second of it was nerve-racking.</p>
<p id="sJOO7G">To get the final two outs, the Dodgers called on Clayton Kershaw, who threw 110 pitches two days ago. It was shades of <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2013/10/9/4819092/1988-dodgers-nlcs-game-4-vs-mets/">Orel Hershiser in Game 4 of the 1988 NLCS</a>, something <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13267324/rich-hill-game-5-starter-nlds-dodgers-nationals">we alluded to before the game</a>. We have officially reached the let’s get nuts stage of the postseason.</p>
<p id="nOAbum">“I came to [Roberts],” Kershaw told reporters in his postgame press conference. “Once Kenley went out there in the seventh, I was just doing the math. I don’t think Kenley’s ever done a six-out save, let alone a nine-out save. He threw 20 pitches in the seventh inning, and I said, ‘Let me go get loose and see how I feel. I’ll let you know. I might be able to do this.’”</p>
<p id="4Vc2Aw">He was able to do this, needing just seven pitches to do so.</p>
<p id="2EkjWW">Kershaw recorded those final two outs with relative ease, including a pop up by Daniel Murphy, who had another fantastic NLDS against the Dodgers, 7-for-16 (.438) with six RBI and five walks (.545 OBP).</p>
<p id="UP949f">“I just felt like Kenley was going to go out there and give us everything he had,” manager Dave Roberts said after the game. “I set the groundwork for Clayton, if it got to Murphy.”</p>
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<p id="YRFMSX">Thursday was Kershaw’s throw day in between starts, with Kershaw slated to start Game 2 of the NLCS against the Cubs on Sunday at Wrigley Field.</p>
<p id="20Womz">“I guess I got my bullpen out of the way,” Kershaw quipped after the game.</p>
<p id="5ROrrR">It was Kershaw’s second professional save. In his last one, <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13282674/last-time-clayton-kershaw-saved-a-game-kenley-jansen-was-his-catcher">10 years ago in the Gulf Coast League, Jansen was his catcher</a>.</p>
<p id="oldYN2">Jansen was the only Dodger to record a save in the regular season, the first time since 1919 the club only had one pitcher with a save.</p>
<p id="eTqBlI">All three games Kershaw pitched in the NLDS, the Dodgers won. All three were one-run victories.</p>
<p id="tiAt6A">Dusty Baker thought he was done with Kershaw after Game 4. Remember? </p>
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<p id="mTZnuJ">Oops.</p>
<p id="D19xN1">“There are conversations that we have with the front office daily, about being forward thinking and open-minded about how we can guys in certain roles,” Roberts said. “There are so many guys who played a huge role.”</p>
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<p id="uzABrM">The NLCS is next, starting Saturday in Chicago. Roberts said before Game 5 that <a href="https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/786709098259746816">Kenta Maeda</a> is<a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughTimes/status/786708304206635009"> set to start</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kengurnick/status/786708106432643072">Game 1</a> for the Dodgers. The Cubs will start Jon Lester in Game 1, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBN_NLCS_CUBS_WORKOUT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-14-00-44-57">per the Associated Press</a>, with Game 2 up in the air depending on the health of Kyle Hendricks.</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/14/13282848/dodgers-nlds-win-reaction-dave-roberts-wowEric Stephen2016-10-13T22:49:34-07:002016-10-13T22:49:34-07:00Last Kershaw save came with Jansen as his catcher
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<p>The phrase "now I’ve seen it all" comes to mind after the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> finished off the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.federalbaseball.com/">Nationals</a> in Game 5 Thursday night. But the game of baseball continues to prove that the phrase may never apply.</p>
<p>Nobody could’ve predicted that <span>Clayton Kershaw</span> would end up saving a game that 20-year-old <span>Julio Urias</span> won as the youngest Dodgers’ pitcher in postseason history after <span>Kenley Jansen</span> came into the game in the seventh inning and threw 51 pitches.</p>
<p>As it turns out, the only other time that Kershaw has saved a game in his professional career came with Jansen behind the plate.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">2006 box score of Kershaw's only other career save – w/ Kenley Jansen as his catcher! Also vs. the Nats. Note the attendance, bottom left. <a href="https://t.co/cG2MINYEOm">pic.twitter.com/cG2MINYEOm</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Kershaw' first save since 2006 for the Gulf Coast Dodgers over the Gulf Coast Nationals. Guess who his catcher was? Kenley Jansen.</p>
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https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13282674/last-time-clayton-kershaw-saved-a-game-kenley-jansen-was-his-catcherRyan Walton2016-10-13T20:30:03-07:002016-10-13T20:30:03-07:00NLDS Game 5 chat
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<p>Continue your Game 5 discussion here ....</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/7/13197602/nationals-nlds-roster-2016-dodgers-lhp" target="_blank">Nationals NLDS roster</a></li>
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https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13275788/nlds-game-5Eric Stephen2016-10-13T19:38:59-07:002016-10-13T19:38:59-07:00Pederson joins Johnson, Monday with HR
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<p>Pederson joins Johnson, Monday in select group</p> <p id="xv0REl">With his home run in the seventh inning against Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer in Game 5 of the National League Division Series, Joc Pederson became just the third Dodgers player to hit a home run in a winner-take-all postseason game, and the first in 35 years.</p>
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<p id="14nr4n">Thursday is the 10th winner-take-all postseason game the Dodgers have played in in franchise history. They won five of the first nine, including four of five since moving to Los Angeles in 1958, with the only LA loss coming in the 2015 NLDS in Game 5 against the Mets.</p>
<p id="hVbgaC">Pederson’s home run joined a pair of memorable Dodgers home runs in such games.</p>
<p id="l6Ksc1">The first was Lou Johnson, who hit a solo shot against Jim Kaat in the fourth inning of Game 7 of the 1965 World Series, giving the Dodgers a 1-0 lead over the Twins, a game LA would eventually win 2-0.</p>
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<p id="s92adX">Johnson was a 30-year-old journeyman who hadn’t played in the majors since 1962, but once Tommy Davis ended his season in May 1965 with a broken ankle, Johnson was called up to take his place and filled in left field.</p>
<p id="Sn7CQA">Johnson was 8-for-27 (.296) with two doubles and two home runs in the 1965 World Series, starting all seven games.</p>
<p id="xQdrEY">Then came Rick Monday in 1981, against Steve Rogers in the ninth inning of the decisive Game 5 of the NLCS in Montreal, giving the Dodgers a 2-1 win over the Expos and a trip to face the Yankees in the World Series.</p>
<p id="T7GtI7">Monday, already etched in baseball lore as the first No. 1 draft pick ever, in 1965 by the Kansas City A’s, and again as the player who saved an American flag from being burned on April 25, 1976 at Dodger Stadium, as a Cub, had a third signature moment in his career with this pennant-clinching dinger.</p>
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<p id="k4Xy8o">Rogers was one of the best starting pitchers in the National League in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and started 393 of his 399 career regular season games. This was his only career relief appearance in the postseason, and the only home run he ever allowed as a reliever in his career.</p>
<p id="K8ejd6">That NLCS was the only series the Dodgers ever played against the Expos, who moved to Washington and became the Nationals in 2005.</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13279484/joc-pederson-home-run-dodgers-history-lou-johnson-rick-mondayEric Stephen2016-10-13T19:04:05-07:002016-10-13T19:04:05-07:00Urias becomes youngest Dodgers posteason pitcher
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<p>4th-youngest MLB pitcher in postseason history</p> <p id="DQelu6">With his relief appearance in Game 5 of the National League Division Series on Thursday night against the Nationals, left-hander Julio Urias became the youngest pitcher in Dodgers postseason history.</p>
<p id="lbioln">Urias entered the game in the bottom of the fifth inning with the Dodgers down 1-0.</p>
<p id="ttTq8c">At just 20 years, 62 days old, Urias is two weeks younger than Don Drysdale when he pitched two innings of relief for Brooklyn in Game 4 of the 1956 World Series.</p>
<p id="gbXMou">Urias is <a href="http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/q0O4c">the fourth-youngest postseason pitcher in MLB history</a>, behind a trio of 19-year-olds — Ken Brett (2 games in the 1967 World Series), Beert Blyleven (Game 3 of the 1970 ALCS) and Don Gullett (5 total games in the NLCS and World Series in 1970).</p>
<p id="JvqGQp">Urias pitched <a href="http://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13276630/dodgers-win-somehow-kenley-jansen-clayton-kershaw-nationals-game-5-nlds">two scoreless innings to earn the win</a>, the youngest winning pitcher in MLB postseason history.</p>
<p id="GbNqHB">With three games in relief this season, Urias had more relief experience than Rich Hill, which was a factor in Hill getting the start rather than the two flip-flopping roles for Game 5.</p>
<p id="svNHOz">Urias pitched only 14 innings in September, and his last outing was three innings in a start on Sept. 29 in San Diego, two full weeks ago. He did throw a four-inning simulated game on Oct. 4 at Dodger Stadium in preparation for the NLDS.</p>
<p id="Xo0t6V">“We just trust Julio to go out there and execute. I do like the weapons that he has. I feel that he's got swing-and-miss stuff,” manager Dave Roberts said before Game 5. “I trust the player in this spot. But with the 13-day layoff or whatever the days, I'll be mindful and Rick and I will be mindful of the sharpness.”</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13271254/julio-urias-youngest-pitcher-dodgers-playoffs-mlb-historyEric Stephen2016-10-13T18:15:03-07:002016-10-13T18:15:03-07:00NLDS Game 5 chat
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https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13275778/nlds-game-5Eric Stephen2016-10-13T17:00:03-07:002016-10-13T17:00:03-07:00NLDS Game 5 chat
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<td>CF</td>
<td>Turner</td>
</tr>
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<td>SS</td>
<td>Seager (L)</td>
<td>RF</td>
<td>Harper (L)</td>
</tr>
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<td>3B</td>
<td>Turner</td>
<td>LF</td>
<td>Werth</td>
</tr>
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<td>1B</td>
<td>Gonzalez (L)</td>
<td>2B</td>
<td>Murphy (L)</td>
</tr>
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<td>RF</td>
<td>Reddick (L)</td>
<td>3B</td>
<td>Rendon</td>
</tr>
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<td>CF</td>
<td>Pederson (L)</td>
<td>1B</td>
<td>Zimmerman</td>
</tr>
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<td>C</td>
<td>Grandal (S)</td>
<td>SS</td>
<td>Espinosa (S)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LF</td>
<td>Toles (L)</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Lobaton (S)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>P</td>
<td>Hill (L)</td>
<td>P</td>
<td>Scherzer</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span><b>Location</b>: Nationals Park<br><b>Time</b>: 5:08 p.m. PT<br> <b>TV</b>: Fox Sports 1<br><b>Radio</b>: AM 570, ESPN Radio</span>
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https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13275606/nlds-game-5Eric Stephen2016-10-13T13:05:37-07:002016-10-13T13:05:37-07:00More of the same in Game 5 lineups
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<p>LA uses same starting 8 in 4 of 5 games in series</p> <p id="TVpHzm">The starting lineups for the decisive Game 5 of the National League Division Series are quite familiar for both the Dodgers and Nationals on Thursday night at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.</p>
<p id="iSEM5c">The Dodgers are using the same lineup they used in Game 1 against Max Scherzer, which is also the lineup they used in Games 2 and 4 as well.</p>
<p id="cMgt6X">The Nationals use their same lineup as they did in Game 2 against Rich Hill, with Jose Lobaton catching and batting eighth, and key left-handers Bryce Harper (second) and Daniel Murphy (cleanup) broken up with right-hander Jayson Werth (batting third) in between.</p>
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<h4>Starting Lineups</h4>
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<td colspan="2" width="125" align="center" bgcolor="#1e90ff"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Dodgers</b></font></td>
<td colspan="2" width="125" align="center" bgcolor="#ba122b"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Nationals</b></font></td>
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<td>2B</td>
<td>Utley (L)</td>
<td>CF</td>
<td>Turner</td>
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<td>SS</td>
<td>Seager (L)</td>
<td>RF</td>
<td>Harper (L)</td>
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<td>3B</td>
<td>Turner</td>
<td>LF</td>
<td>Werth</td>
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<td>1B</td>
<td>Gonzalez (L)</td>
<td>2B</td>
<td>Murphy (L)</td>
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<td>RF</td>
<td>Reddick (L)</td>
<td>3B</td>
<td>Rendon</td>
</tr>
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<td>CF</td>
<td>Pederson (L)</td>
<td>1B</td>
<td>Zimmerman</td>
</tr>
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<td>C</td>
<td>Grandal (S)</td>
<td>SS</td>
<td>Espinosa (S)</td>
</tr>
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<td>LF</td>
<td>Toles (L)</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Lobaton (S)</td>
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<td>P</td>
<td>Hill (L)</td>
<td>P</td>
<td>Scherzer
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</tbody>
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<span><b>Location</b>: Nationals Park<br><b>Time</b>: 5:08 p.m. PT<br> <b>TV</b>: Fox Sports 1<br><b>Radio</b>: AM 570, ESPN Radio</span>
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<p id="eXRR16">Corey Seager, batting second on Thursday, has had a bizarre series. He started each of the first three games of the NLDS with run-scoring extra-base hits — solo home runs off Max Scherzer in Game 1 and Tanner Roark in Game 2, followed by an RBI double to the wall against Gio Gonzalez in Game 3 — but is otherwise 0-for-15 with five strikeouts, including 0 for his last 8, with six of those eight at-bats coming with runners on base.</p>
<p id="lEt7yV">Chase Utley, who drove home the game-winner in Game 4, is 3-for-13 (.231) with a walk and HBP (.333 OBP) in the NLDS, and is also 3-for-13 with two doubles in his career against Scherzer, including an RBI single in Game 1.</p>
<p id="pskTxP">Andrew Toles, who scored on both Utley RBI singles in this series, gets the start in left field again in this series. Toles is 1-for-7 (.143) in the NLDS with two HBP (.333 OBP). The only time during the regular season that he started four times in five games was a stretch from July 21-30 that saw him start six times in an eight-game span.</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2016/10/13/13267800/nlds-game-5-lineups-dodgers-nationalsEric Stephen