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MILWAUKEE – S 'there have been more happy clubs after the division of the first two games in a series of seven games, nothing comes to mind. The Dodgers lead the National League series against the Brewers, one game each.
Los Angeles won the kind of match that the Brewers were built on Saturday to win. With three points less than nine points left, the Dodgers suspended four points on the Milwaukee anvil, supposedly at the depth of Mariana, to steal the match 2, 4-3.
In two games, the Dodgers scored eight points late against the team that gave the fewest points this year between the seventh and ninth inning. On top of that, they also recruited Jeremy Jeffress and Corey Knebel and attended 46 presentations by Josh Hader. This was the most productive trip to Milwaukee for visitors since last summer's World Beer Festival, not to be confused with the Wisconsin Beer Festival, which is not to be confused with the Brewwest of Milwaukee, which … well, you see the idea.
It has become apparent that there are two types of games in this series: games when Hader is available and games when it is not. The second match was one of those non-Hader games for the Brewers.
As a Dodger said, Hader is a "superhero" lifter, but all the others, even if they are good, think that Los Angeles can solve the problem, especially with the intensity of the beats. 'team.
"I do not know if I've ever seen anything like it, not in the last three years anyway," said David Freese, first baseman, who joined the Dodgers on Aug. 31. "The bat-states have been incredible."
Like stars in the sky, Caribbean beaches, Stevie Wonder records or Philip Roth's novels, the quality of Dodgers' reviews is so high that it's so hard to pick a favorite. So I tried the exercise after the second game by asking the Dodgers' hometown team to identify the biggest game of the match.
Freese picked Cody Bellinger's RBI in seventh, because before the match, the veteran was giving baseball lessons to the young slugger.
"You can be an elite hitter," Freese told him. "But being an elite hitter does not always mean hitting the ball out of the stadium, it also means being able to hit the ball in the middle in a big place." Look at J.T. [Justin Turner]. He is an elite hitter because, against a good throw in a big position, he can hit the ball in the center or in the other direction. Once you understand that, wow, look out.
After Bellinger touched Corbin Burnes, he looked into the canoe and found Freese's eyes. Remembering their conversation, they smiled knowingly about the micro and macro importance of this movement.
Third base coach Chris Woodward chose Austin Barnes' walk on a curved balloon filled with Jeffress bases that forced the home back home. Jeffress had thrown only four bouncing balls on a full count throughout the year – and three of them did not work (two steps and one).
"I was sitting on a heater," Barnes said. "I just reacted to the spin. It's not gone far. "
Barnes chose Max Muncy's march to begin the rally of the seventh inning. Burnes, 23, invited the danger with a five-run walk while holding a three-point lead, a huge mistake born of inexperience. Burnes had only walked two hitters all year. Welcome to October.
Bench coach Bob Geren made another choice.
"The race at home," said Geren, as he stated a no-brainer, referring to Turner's two-run circuit on a suspended Jeffress splitter in the eighth that turned a deficit into a pre-race inning from one point. "I love home racing that puts us in mind."
The Dodgers clearly shook Jeffress, whose body language missed his usual bravado. Their plan against his coming in the series was to make him raise the ball, and they perform well.
Vice President Andrew Friedman first responded, "The obvious is Barnes," but he asked for more time to think in order to find something less obvious. A minute or two later, he came back with another choice: what seemed to be a harmless single from Chris Taylor with two outs and nobody in the sixth inning. At this point, Wade Miley, the starter of Milwaukee, was mowing through the Dodgers as he mowed his lawn: quickly, in order and without sweat. Why Taylor's forgotten single?
"It's the one who took Miley out of the game," Friedman said. "After that, you could see [Brewers manager Craig] Counsell becomes a bit uncomfortable. Miley was dealing. I think we hit a strong ball against him all night. "
Miley had only made 74 shots. It had been a long time since the Dodgers, the team that led the league in home runs and walks, had been so taken aback. Miley lasted 5 2/3 innings without giving up a home run or a walk – something that no one had done against them in 166 consecutive games, including the first match in March by Johnny Cueto .
After Taylor's success, Counsell made the Dodgers happy by shooting Miley. He was eager to get to his pen to get the last 10 outs, even without Hader.
"Look, you're either too early or too late," Counsell said. "At some point you have to make a decision and I thought it was going through the heart of the formation for the third time. And I thought we had a fresh Corbin Burnes, which was wonderful for us this year. "
His plan – Burnes to Jeffress in Knebel – was based on Burnes being seventh. This has never happened. When Burnes pushed Muncy to open the round, the plan and the game were jeopardized. Leadoff is working this time if the year starts to get soaked in kerosene.
Burnes and Jeffress combined 15-1 this year. But neither, Hader. Once Miley is out and without Hader, a path to victory is open for Los Angeles. And the Dodgers' manager, Dave Roberts, made sure to do it using five throwers to get the last 11 outs without giving up a hit.
This game will not change the way Counsell handles the rest of the series. He raised a starter in total control of the game based on the probabilities of metrics (third time) and on a deep pen that brought him here. It exploded, but that does not mean he is abandoning the process.
The third match, Monday in Los Angeles, will be totally different. It will be a game of Hader. And if Hader does two innings in this match, then Match 4 will probably be a match that does not call Hader.
Counsell used Hader only six times a year on the following days, never after two rounds. "We know that he needs rest and that he is better when he is rested," Counsell said.
Counsell was right to use it for a third round in Game 1, because once Hader started his second run he was out for Game 2. But the Dodgers were happy with the third inning because the four batters had struck her had made contact. Two batters, Kiké Hernandez and Bellinger, have reviewed his affairs.
It is likely that at least one of the next three games will be a match without Hader. This year the Brewers are 52-7 in the Hader games and 48-61 in the non-Hader games. That's partly because he ended up in winnable games, not when the team is lagging behind, but also because the guy pulled out more hitters than any left-handed taker in history of the match and the biggest weapon right now.
How is naughty Hader? The Dodgers missed 11 four-sided fastballs in the entire Division series against the Braves. They swayed and missed 11 four-sided fast balls, just Hader's in the first match – 23 attempts to hit.
The net result of two NLCS games was a lot smarter at the Dodgers clubhouse. They knew that they had levied a Milwaukee surcharge in those two games. The crazy twist at the beginning of this series was that the two directors had the same goal: Counsell wants to go to his pen early and often because he believes it's his club's strength and Roberts wants Counsell to go early and often to his pen because he believes the series is unfolding, this workload creates a fatigue and familiarity advantageous for his hitters. Only one of them can be right.
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