Playoff Pinch Hits: National League Dominated Lately By Exclusive Group
The high-spending Cardinals, Giants and Phillies have won the last six National League pennants. The Cardinals or Giants will win it again in 2014.
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The high-spending Cardinals, Giants and Phillies have won the last six National League pennants. The Cardinals or Giants will win it again in 2014.
The Cardinals eliminated the Dodgers to advance to the NLCS for the fourth straight year.
Aside from a seemingly generous strike zone, Scott also appeared to clap when Yasiel Puig was struck out during the third inning.
Kolten Wong hit a two-run homer to snap a seventh-inning tie, Matt Carpenter went deep for the third straight game and John Lackey pitched the St. Louis Cardinals past the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1 Monday night to give the Cardinals a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five NL Division Series.
All four League Division Series are well underway now in the 2014 MLB Playoffs, and as usual, there are plenty of surprises.
Matt Carpenter hit a go-ahead, three-run double off a wilting Clayton Kershaw in an eight-run seventh inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied for a 10-9 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in a fiery NL Division Series opener Friday.
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Matt Kemp homered and had four RBIs, while Yasiel Puig scored a career-high four times.
Chris Coghlan hit two homers, including the go-ahead two-run drive off Brian Wilson in the eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Saturday.
Clayton Kershaw (20-3) pitched five shaky innings in his shortest start in 3 1/2 months, but the NL West-leading Dodgers roughed up Edwin Jackson on their way to a 13-hit attack that included four homers.
Clayton Kershaw opposes Edwin Jackson this afternoon at Wrigley Field.
"It's never easy," Darwin Barney says of his exit from Chicago.
Dee Gordon and pinch-hitter Andre Ethier hit RBI doubles in Los Angeles' five-run seventh inning.
Zack Greinke opposes Tsuyoshi Wada tonight at Wrigley Field.
Edwin Jackson faces Clayton Kershaw on Friday at Wrigley Field.
Chicago righty Jake Arrieta got shelled, as Cincinnati took an early 6-0 lead.
Edwin Jackson pitched six innings for his first victory in six weeks and Chris Coghlan hit a tiebreaking two-run homer, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
On a night when the Dodgers used home run threats Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Ethier and Yasiel Puig as pinch-hitters late in the game, Hanley Ramirez came through at the end.
The last time Kyle Hendricks pitched at Dodger Stadium he was in high school and there were a couple hundred people in the stands.
Kyle Hendricks opposes Dan Haren tonight at Dodger Stadium.
A chance meeting with Vin Scully in the spring of '91 will never be forgotten.
"I've soul-searched and this is not the time" to call it quits, Scully said.
Chicago will receive a player to be named later for Darwin Barney.
