![]() ![]() The one hit Wilson allowed came in the third inning off the bat of Edwin Rios. ![]() He answered the question of how he would handle the situation. "Are you kidding me? That kid stepped up. "Wow is about all I can say," said Braves' manager Brian Snitker. "When we did hit balls hard we just didn't get any luck, that's baseball." "He made pitches when he needed to," Roberts said of Wilson. The 22-year-old became the third youngest pitcher in MLB history to pitch six or more innings allowing just one hit or fewer, and he did it in his postseason debut. On Thursday night, it was rookie Bryse Wilson's turn to tame the Dodgers' bats. "They've pitched really well," Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts said about the Braves' starting pitchers. Outside of a bump in the road in the first inning of Game 3, the Braves' starters have allowed just two runs in 26 innings in the series. Part of that is paltry hitting, but the majority of credit belongs to the Braves starting pitching. Scenes from Taylor Swift's Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium When the dust finally settled on Game 4, the wind, and the Braves blew out the Dodgers, 10-2, giving Atlanta a 3-1 stranglehold on the best-of-seven National League Championship Series. It wasn't an MLB record 11 runs, but it was enough to put the Dodgers on the brink of elimination after the Atlanta Braves scored six runs off Kershaw and the bullpen in the sixth inning. "It just seems like it was a little crazy enough that you might want to close the roof." "If you have a roof, I don't why you don't close it," said Kershaw about the gusty wind conditions. It was certainly not for Dodgers' ace Clayton Kershaw who wrote another chapter to his book of playoff misery. Perhaps the grey clouds overhead and the uncomfortably chilling conditions were an ominous sign from above that tonight would not be the best of nights for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It started with a light breeze, but by the time first pitch rolled around, the robust wind had whipped the large American flag into a horizontal flurry of red and white stripes. ![]()
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