Jin Ryu appeared to be enough as the Dodgers held a four-run lead entering the ninth. After putting three runs across the board Jason Motte Jersey , the tying..."A Cody Bellinger grand slam and dominant start from Hyun-Jin Ryu appeared to be enough as the Dodgers held a four-run lead entering the ninth. After putting three runs across the board, the tying run stood 90 feet away. Kenley Jansen got Pablo Sandoval to ground into a double play, ending the game and giving LA the close 6-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants.The offenseThe Dodgers scored five of their six runs in the third inning, largely due to Bellinger’s bat. Russell Martin reached on an error, and then Hyun-Jin Ryu followed by walking on four pitches. With two on and no out, Enrique Hernandez singled, giving LA a 1-0 lead. After A.J. Pollock singled, Bellinger stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded. He turned on an 86 mph cutter and sent it over the center field fence, giving the Dodgers a 5-0 lead. For Bellinger, it’s his fifth home run of the season. To put into perspective how hot he’s been at the plate, it took him 39 games to reach that number last season. Bellinger wasn’t the only Dodger to have a successful night at the plate. A.J. Pollock continued his impressive start in Dodger blue, tacking on another two hits to put his average at .360 on the year. Hernandez, who has a .500 career average against Madison Bumgarner, had two hits on the evening as well. He also had multiple highlight reels on the defensive side too. The pitchingFor the second consecutive game, the Dodgers got an incredible outing from their starter. Making his second start of the year, Ryu gave the Dodgers seven innings, the most from a Dodgers starter this season. In his seven innings of work, he struck out five and allowed only two runs, both of which came courtesy of a Bumgarner home run. He started off the game practically un-hittable http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-marcell-ozuna-jersey , getting 15 of the first 16 batters he faced out. The sixth was a struggle for him, allowing four consecutive hits to cut the Dodgers’ lead to only three. With runners on first and second and only one out, Ryu struck out Evan Longoria and got Buster Posey to ground out, escaping the sixth without any further damage. Caleb Ferguson had another scoreless outing, striking out two in his lone inning of work. Yimi Garcia came into the ninth with a four-run cushion, but made it through only two batters before being removed. After a double and a walk put two on, Kenley Jansen came in to close things out. It looked as if the bullpen would blow yet another game, as an error, walk and single would cut the Dodgers’ lead to only one. With runners at the corners and one out, Sandoval came in to pinch hit. He grounded to shortstop, where Corey Seager and Hernandez turned the close double play, giving the Dodgers the one-run victory. Tuesday particularsWP: Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-0) 7 IP, 5 SO, 2 ERLP: Madison Bumgarner (0-2) 6 IP, 0 ER, 5 R, 4 SOSV: Kenley Jansen (2) 1 IP, 1 R, 1 SOUp nextThe Dodgers will look for their second consecutive series win tomorrow as Ross Stripling (0-0 Brett Cecil Jersey , 0.00 ERA) takes the mound against Derek Holland (0-1, 6.75 ERA). First pitch is at 7:10 pm on SportsNet LA. NEW YORK (AP) — Fans have been waiting for another one of these rumbles: baseball’s most-bitter rivals set to tangle again, this time as 100-win heavyweights in the playoffs.Munson vs. Fisk, Pedro vs. Popeye , A-Rod vs. Varitek and earlier this year Brock Holt vs. Tyler Austin .The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees back at each other in the postseason for the first time in 14 years.“We’re a team that can play with anybody, and we’re not afraid to go in there,” Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks said after a 7-2 wild-card win over Oakland sent New York to a best-of-five AL Division Series that starts Friday in Fenway Park.Yankees fans were chanting “We want Boston!” during the late innings. The Red Sox tweeted “We want New York” after the final out in the Bronx.“I think they’re ready and relish the opportunity to go up against the game’s best this year,” Yankees rookie manager Aaron Boone said of his players.That is the same Aaron Boone whose 11th-inning homer in Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series beat the Red Sox. A year later Boston overcame the Yankees and became the first major league team to bounce back from a 3-0 postseason deficit. The Red Sox went on to win their first World Series since 1918, but Boone’s drive off Tim Wakefield has not been forgotten or forgiven.Boston was 10-9 against the Yankees this year and set a club record with 108 wins under new manager Alex Cora, boosted by MVP candidate Mookie Betts, slugger J.D. Martinez and ace Chris Sale. New York finished eight games back and became the first team since the 2001 Athletics to reach triple digits in wins and fail to finish first — New York also set the major league mark for home runs, powered by the likes of Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton.These teams also have a history of hitting each other.Back on April 11, Austin charged the mound at Fenway after Red Sox reliever Joe Kelly threw at him twice, hitting Austin in the side with the second pitch. Boston players were livid Austin slid spikes-first into shortstop Brock Holt earlier in the game. A bench-clearing brawl led to suspensions and fines, but Auston won’t be around for a rematch — he was dealt to Minnesota in July.“It’s Yankees-Red Sox. That’s what everybody wants. That’s what they got,” Red Sox star pitcher David Price said then.Just another in a long history of bad blood between rivals a little more than 200 miles apart.Boston player-manager Joe Cronin and New York outfielder Jake Powell fought on the field and beneath the Yankee Stadium stands in 1938, and Jimmy Piersall of the Red Sox and Billy Martin of the Yankees brawled beneath Fenway Park’s stands in 1952.A fight broke out in 1967 at Yankee Stadium after New York’s Thad Tillotson hit Joe Foy with a pitch and Boston’s Jim Lonborg hit Tillotson — who after the scrap hit Dick Howser with a pitch.In 1973, Thurman Munson crashed into catcher Carlton Fisk at Fenway after Gene Michael missed a bunt, and the All-Stars fought. Then at Yankee Stadium in 1976 http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-marcell-ozuna-jersey , New York’s Lou Piniella charged into Fisk at the plate , and Boston pitcher Bill Lee was body-slammed during the fighting and wound up with a broken collarbone.A notorious brawl took place during Game 3 of the 2003 AL Championship series, when Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez threw 72-year-old Don Zimmer to the ground.Zimmer, a former Boston manager and then a Yankees coach, ran across the infield and lunged at Martinez during the fighting.Then the following July, Boston’s Bronson Arroyo hit New York’s Alex Rodriguez with a pitch, A-Rod stared at the pitch as he walked toward first, catcher Jason Varitek got between them and pushed the AL MVP, leading to dugouts and bullpens emptying.That October the rivals met again in the 2004 ALCS. The Yankees took a 3-0 lead and were one inning from reaching the World Series when Mariano Rivera walked Kevin Millar and pinch-runner Dave Roberts — now the Los Angeles Dodgers manager — stole second. Bill Mueller hit a tying single and the Red Sox won 6-4 in 12 innings when David Ortiz hit a game-ending, two-run homer at 1:22 a.m.Boston won 5-4 the next day on Ortiz’s RBI single in the 14th inning, won Game 6 in New York 4-2 behind Curt Schilling and his bloody sock, then blew out the Yankees 10-3 in the finale.“All empires fall sooner or later,” Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said.Boston swept St. Louis in the World Series, swept Colorado four years later and beat the Cardinals in a six-game series in 2013. Over that same span, the Yankees have won just one title, in 2009.Fast forward to this week, with the teams ready to meet again.“It’s going to be intense,” New York pitcher CC Sabathia said.
