With their backs against the wall once again, the Dodgers remain unfazed
Dodgers take early lead before the Padres rally to go ahead in Game 4
SAN DIEGO ❯❯ The Dodgers may have just been doing their civic duty — the Gaslamp Quarter might not have survived a Padres victory Saturday night.
Freddie Freeman's two-run double in the third inning resuscitated the Dodgers' offense, breathing just enough life into it for them to take 3-0 lead over the San Diego Padres into bottom of the seventh inning of Game 4 in their National League Division Series.
The Padres, however, rallied to score five runs against the Dodgers bullpen in the bottom of the seventh, taking a 5-3 lead heading into the late night hours.
A Dodgers win would send the best-of-five NLDS back to Dodger Stadium, even at two games apiece. Left-hander Julio Urias was scheduled to start for the Dodgers in that case. A Padres victory would send them into the National League Championship Series
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SAN DIEGO ❯❯ They played a clip of The Stolen Base on FS1 Saturday morning, during a mini-documentary on the life, times and home runs of Big Papi, Hall of Famer David Ortiz.
The Stolen Base, of course, was pilfered by Dave Roberts in the ninth inning of Game 4 between the Yankees and Red Sox in 2004, with the Yankees three outs away from a sweep. Roberts came around to score and tie the game,
Boston won on an Ortiz home run in the
12th, and the Red Sox went on to become the first team to erase a 3-0 deficit and win an MLB postseason series en route to their first World Series title since 1916.
The pertinence? Roberts' Dodgers have not been fazed by elimination games in recent years. They came back from a 3-1 deficit in the 2020 NL Championship Series against Atlanta en route to their own World Series title. A year ago they survived the wild-card game against St. Louis, itself an elimination game, and were
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