After finishing with the best record in baseball over the course of a game regular season abbreviated by the COVID pandemic, the Dodgers swept the Milwaukee Brewers and the San Diego Padres in the first two rounds of the postseason before overcoming a two-game deficit against the Braves. Dodgers and Braves should be among elite National League teams for years.
And maybe the year after that. The Dodgers, with their deep-pocketed owners, top-notch scouting and player development and keen eye for finding talent on the margins, are a perennial power, having won eight straight division titles. Cody Bellinger was at the plate with the bases empty. Chris Martin stood 60 feet, 6 inches away.
Martin was one out from keeping the game tied. The count was when Bellinger fouled off three straight pitches — two sinkers and a cutter. The next pitch, the eighth of the battle, was a mph sinker that Martin wishes he could have back. It was up and over the plate. Bellinger feasted, launching it over the right-field wall to give the Dodgers the lead they needed.
Cody Bellinger slugs a mammoth go-ahead homer. Cody Bellinger broke Statcast when he ended an eight-pitch battle against Braves reliever Chris Martin with a towering home run to right field. It has been at least two minutes and Baseball Savant has no reading on the homer.
The Dodgers take a Game 7 lead. Dodgers done in the sixth. We go to the seventh tied at Another big baserunning play — but this one goes against L. But when Corey Seager grounded to Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies with one out, Taylor broke for the plate and slid head first.
