Dodgers tie post-season scoreless innings mark, high Mets 9-0

LOS ANGELES — Jack Flaherty mixed on a three-hitter and Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers tied the post-season report of 33 consecutive scoreless innings by routing the New York Mets 9-0 Sunday night time within the Nationwide League Championship Sequence opener.

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Flaherty left to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 53,503. The 28-year-old right-hander from close by Burbank, Calif., returned residence from Detroit on the July 30 commerce deadline and has been a steadying presence in a rotation hard-hit by accidents.

Flaherty retired his first 9 batters, extending the Dodgers’ streak of consecutive hitters retired to twenty-eight, earlier than strolling Francisco Lindor main off the fourth. New York’s solely hits off him have been a pair of singles by Jesse Winker and Jose Iglesias within the fifth. Flaherty struck out six.

Lindor was 0-for-3 with a stroll and a strikeout and Pete Alonso went hitless in three at-bats with a stroll and a strikeout.

The Dodgers rallied from the brink of elimination towards San Diego to win the NL Division Sequence in 5 video games with shutouts within the final two video games.

They opened their pursuit of a report twenty fifth NL pennant by chasing Senga after 1 1/3 innings of his simply third total begin in a yr decimated by accidents.