The three other series all saw one team take a lead, with the Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles already clinching their trips to the American League Championship Series on Sunday night. John Lackey will take the mound for St. Ryu made his postseason debut with the Dodgers last season and pitched seven scoreless innings against the Cardinals in the NLCS.
He'll look to repeat that kind of performance again on Monday night to give Los Angeles the series advantage. Fox Sports 1 will handle the broadcast with first pitch scheduled for just after 9 p. ESPN Radio will provide additional coverage with viewers able to watch the game online via Postseason.
Streaming: Postseason. Carpenter then grounded the second pitch to shortstop. And Grichuk lined to short on the fourth pitch. Seven pitches for Ryu making it pretty clear the sixth, if not seventh, inning is within his reach.
Kemp hit a dribbler to second for the first out of the inning. Ramirez flew to center field and Crawford grounded out to Lackey on his 59th pitch. Pretty easy sailing for Lackey. Molina was out on one pitch with a swinging bunt and was thrown out by Ellis. Jay then hit a shot back through the box into center field for another Cardinals runner. Wong grounded into a double play, second to short to first. All in all, an easy inning for Ryu.
Puig, who had struck out six straight times, made it an unlikely seven. Not what you want from the No. Gonzalez grounded weakly to second and Lackey had his best inning of the game. No surprise who is the most valuable Cardinal. Carpenter led off the inning with a towering home run to right-center, his third of the series, to give the Cardinals the lead.
Grichuk then flew out to left field but Holliday singled to right to give the Cardinals another base runner. Ryu was starting to struggle as his pitch count climbed but he still struck out Peralta with a couple of change ups. Adams hit a difficult pop up that Ramirez caught in shallow left-center.
Hanley Ramirez opened with a single that was almost caught by Grichuk. The Dodgers got their leadoff batter on base for the second straight inning. Carl Crawford made the first out of the inning with a fly out in foul territory to left field.
With Ramirez running on the pitch, Juan Uribe sent a towering shot to deep center that was caught by Jon Jay. Ellis got the third Dodger hit with a single to right field but Ryu ended the inning by striking out. Matt Adams gave the Cardinals a leadoff batter on base with a single to right. And Molina made it back-to-back with a single to center. Ryu caught a break on a pitch when Jay swung on a pitch in the dirt for the first out.
Sound familiar? Lackey played tough running the count to before grounding out shortstop to first. Dee Gordon, who had been 1 for 9 in the series, opened with a single to center. On the first pitch he got a great jump and stole second and the Dodgers had their first runner in scoring position.
But Yasiel Puig struck out on a pitch. On a pitch to Adrian Gonzalez, Yadier Molina, one of the best catchers in the game, let the ball go off his glove for a passed ball and Gordon was on third with one out. In an opportunity wasted, Gonzalez popped out in foul territory to shallow left field and Gordon had to stay at third.
It was all up to the red-hot Matt Kemp but he flied out to center field. A good chance lost for the Dodgers. This is where we would start to see how Hyun-Jin Ryu would look after being off for three weeks. Randal Grichuck then was called out on strikes in four pitches. Matt Holliday worked a count and Ryu threw the ball right down the middle, but it was called a ball and the Cardinals had their first runner of the game. Jhonny Peralta then grounded out to Juan Uribe at third and the inning was over.
Back in St. Louis, where they take this red-state, blue-state thing very seriously, they are gearing up for their postseason opener tonight against the Dodgers.
Columnist Bernie Miklasz wonders how much home-field advantage really means in the postseason. Noting that the Cardinals were tied for the second-best home record in baseball, , but the Dodgers had the best road record , he writes:. Through Sunday, the visiting teams are Miklasz also has an explanation for why Matt Carpenter has turned the Dodgers into his personal whipping boy. Over the last two seasons including the postseason , Carpenter has had more plate appearances -- 1, -- than any MLB player.
He plays a lot of ball. He goes hard. He doesn't get many days off. Over the last two seasons Carpenter also seen the most pitches -- an astounding 6, Carpenter and the Angels' Mike Trout are the only MLB hitters to see more than 6, pitches since the start of last season.
Cardinals beat reporter Derrick Goold said postseason games frequently turn on the home run, something not a typical St. Louis strength:. The Cardinals have scored 12 runs, seven on homers in this series against LA. The Dodgers have scored 12 runs, five on homers. Only one other time since the All-Star break have they had as many in a two-game stretch.
Seriously, once. Reporter Rick Hummel said one unexpected Dodger has killed the Cardinals pitching the first two games:. But Ellis had hurt the Cardinals last season in the playoffs, too, batting. The Cape Girardeau, Mo. Before this season, Ellis was only 12 for Columnist Joe Strauss said Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly is handling the minefield that is the Dodgers bullpen with relative composure:.
Rather than grow defensive about the situation, Mattingly exudes calm. He handles problems like a guy who had a front-row seat to the Steinbrenner circus in New York.
He also realizes he was hours away from being fired as manager last season and lived to smile about it. Louis 2. McFarland got the first two batters he faced out in the ninth before walking Cody Bellinger, forcing his exit in the place of Reyes, who allowed a steal by Bellinger and the homer by Taylor. The Cardinals started off the game by scoring in the first when second baseman Tommy Edman reached first, stole second, advanced to third on a flyout and scored on a wild pitch.
However, despite having plenty of scoring opportunities, St. Louis failed to cash in the rest of the game. The team finished a combined 0-for with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base.
It took a bit longer for the Dodgers to knot the game back up at one, but in the fourth, Justin Turner delivered again, hitting a solo shot off Wainwright to tie up the game. Sporting News tracked live scoring updates and highlights from Cardinals vs.
Dodgers in the MLB postseason. Read below for complete results from the National League wild-card game. Cardinals in NL wild-card game is beautiful October playoff drama. Taylor now has a chance to bat with a runner in scoring position. Alex Reyes coming in for the Cardinals with Taylor coming up to bat. McFarland, which means Albert Pujols will likely come to bat. While Pujols has struggled against righties this year, he's feasted against southpaws to the tune of a.
Of his 17 home runs this year, 13 have come against lefties. End Top Ninth: O'Neill swings and misses at a high fastball, and the Dodgers will bat in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to win it. O'Neill coming up to bat with Edman on second and two gone. This game is headed to the ninth in a tie game. Two out for Smith. The fastest player in this game is on base.
End Top Eighth: Knebel gets Bader to chase the breaking ball out of the zone, and the Cardinals go down scoreless in the top of the eighth. FILTH in a big spot. Bader due up as Treinen exits the game. He advanced past second on the flyout by Molina, and needed to retouch it in order to return to first base. End of Seventh: Betts flies out to center field. This game heads to the eighth still tied at one. Chris Taylor, who came in on the double switch to call in Treinen, will bat with a runner on first.
End Top Seventh: Arenado pops out to first, and Treinen strands the runner at second. Two away. He's been about as nasty as any reliever in baseball this season.
Graterol has four sinkers mph or above, while Garcia has the next five fastest pitches, each above 98 mph, per Baseball Savant. End of Sixth: Garcia throws out Pollock, with Goldschmidt making a stellar play at first to catch it and dodge a charging Pollock. Had he not, Turner would have scored from second and the Dodgers would have taken the lead.
How fast is he? His speed checks in at Runners on first and second now with two outs for Pollock. Luis Garcia will instead be the pitcher to face Justin Turner. Justin Turner coming up to bat now.
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