"Hell Gate" almost opened at the last minute again. It almost opened to the door, but Loki Sasaki, who returned to the postseason bullpen, turned the lock and ended the crisis.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have won two consecutive games in the Major League National League Division Series in the 2025 season. Again, the bullpen caused the crisis, but it did not collapse this time. This is a scene that revealed the potential of the Dodgers, the winner of last year's World Series. I didn't fall down even though I was shaking in the big game.
The Dodgers narrowly beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 in Game 2 of the Division Series (best out of five) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the 7th (Korea time). As a result, the Dodgers won both the first and second away games in Philadelphia and have only one win left before advancing to the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers will play Game 3 at LA Dodger Stadium on the 9th. If you win, you go straight to the Championship Series.
The Dodgers, who came from behind to win 5-3 with Shohei Ohtani as the starter in the first game, put Blake Snell as the starter in the second game. Snell gave up only one hit until the sixth inning, continuing his scoreless pitching with four walks and nine strikeouts.
However, the Dodgers' batters rarely burst. Philadelphia left-hander Jesus Luzardo also continued his great pitching. The early-middle of Game 2 of the Division Series was a tight start. Luzar also pitched a scoreless pitch, giving up only one hit until the sixth inning. Until the sixth inning, there were 12 numbers '0' on the scoreboard.
However, there was a crack in the tight game in the top of the seventh inning.
Dodgers veteran Teoscar Hernandez took the lead in destroying Luzardo. Teoscar, who came out as a leadoff hitter in the top of the seventh inning, hit a heavy hit after a six-pitch game. Theosca then advanced to third base on Freddie Freeman's subsequent double on the right-field line.
That's all for Luzardo's fight. Coach Rob Thompson, who came to the mound at the crisis of second and third bases with no outs, lowered Luzardo and put in Orion kickerring. However, the replacement became a handshake. Kickering struck out Tommy Edman.
However, he gave up a run on an infield grounder to Kiké Hernández. The bat broke and the batting speed died. While the shortstop caught it and threw it to first base, the third baseman Teosca homered. Kike also lived at first base. There was a situation in which all runners were safe due to the fielder's choice.
Max Muncy then drew a walk, leading to another one-out full base chance. Still, Thompson didn't change his kicker ring. Kickering caught Andy Parz with a fly ball to first base, but Will Smith hit a two-run timely hit to left. With the Dodgers on a 3-0 run, Thompson lowered the kicker and put in Matt Straum.
However, it was only after Straum gave up one more run with a timely hit to Ohtani in the right-center with two outs and runners on the first and second bases that he handled Mookie Betts with a fly ball to center field and finished the inning. At the same time, Luzardo's earned run increased to two points, Dodgers starter Snell had a winning pitcher requirement.
take a 4-0 leadJuss put Emmett Sheehan on the mound in the bottom of the seventh inning. He allowed four consecutive hitters to go out until the bottom of the eighth inning with one out. However, after one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, pinch hitter Max Kepler allowed a triple on the right-field line, and Trey Turner allowed one run due to a timely hit to the middle field. After that, he struck out Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper with a fly ball to center field, respectively, preventing additional runs.
Leading 4-1, the Dodgers faced a crisis again in the bottom of the ninth inning. Manager Dave Roberts put in Blake Treinen as the closing pitcher, which was the worst replacement. Upon coming out, Treinen gave up two runs on Alec Bohm-J.T. Realmuto-Nick Casteya after being hit with a double to center-field, left-field and left-field.
In an instant, the gap narrowed to one point, and the situation of second base continued with no outs. The Dodgers' absolute crisis situation unfolded. With the equalizer out, Roberts eventually changed Treinen to Alex Besia. Vesia induced Bryce Statt, who attempted a sacrifice bunt with no outs and second base, to ground out to third base. As soon as third baseman Muncy caught the ball, he threw it to third base to get Casteya out.
With no outs, the second base was changed to one out and one out. Philadelphia used a pinch-hitter again. Harrison Bader came out and hit a left-handed hit. Vesia guided Kepler to a groundout to the first base with one out and runners on first and second bases to catch another leadoff runner at first base. It was followed by two outs and runners on first and third bases.
Here, Roberts called out Loki Sasaki. Rocky threw boldly. The first opponent is Turner. The first-ball body splitter is out of the zone. He then threw a 99.3-mile four-seam fastball into the strike zone on the second pitch. Turner swung, but couldn't get over Rocky's heavy fastball. The pitch flowed weakly to the second baseman. Rocky has made two consecutive saves in the division series.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
