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NLCS Game 7: Dodgers defeat Brewers; will face Red Sox in World Series

Tim Brown

MLB columnist

MILWAUKEE – Near the end of a season that on many nights seemed to lack the legs for October, the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night clinched their second consecutive trip to the World Series, where beginning Tuesday they will play the American League champion Boston Red Sox.

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Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig homered. Rookie Walker Buehler pitched into the fifth inning. Left fielder Chris Taylor made a sliding, run-saving catch. Kenley Jansen recorded four outs, striking out three. Clayton Kershaw slammed the door in the ninth. And in a Game 7 of a National League Championship Series that had come to seem inevitable, the Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1. The pennant is the franchise’s 24th. Bellinger was named the NLCS MVP.

The separator after nearly a week-and-a-half of baseball, of scheming and pitching changes, was Puig’s three-run home run in the sixth inning against Brewers reliever Jeremy Jeffress. With two out, a 1-1 count and the Dodgers holding to a 2-1 lead, Puig lined a fastball over the center-field fence. He hoisted his arms and chopped at his thighs and slashed at his throat in a home-to-home gallop that was part ceremony and part rave.

While the series generally had been played on this side of the fence, as the Dodgers had two home runs and the Brewers five through six games, both teams had homered by the second inning in Game 7.

Christian Yelich hit Buehler’s eighth pitch into the visitors’ bullpen in right-center field. The Brewers led, 1-0. In the second, Manny Machado reached on a bunt single and, behind him, Bellinger homered into the second deck in right field. Combined, Yelich and Bellinger had hit 61 regular-season home runs. It was the first for both in the NLCS. Also, the RBI was Yelich’s first. The Dodgers led, 2-1, their runs coming just ahead of Brewers reliever Josh Hader’s entrance.

The lead allowed the Dodgers to wait out Hader’s appearance. The lefty threw three scoreless innings behind starter Jhoulys Chacín. When he was gone, the Dodgers’ offense picked up again. Max Muncy and Justin Turner singled ahead of Puig’s home run.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are returning to the World Series after defeating the Milwaukee Brewers in NLCS Game 7. (Getty Images)]

Five months before, the Dodgers had started the season with a record of 16-26, twice lagging to nine games behind the leader in the National League West, and so required an extra day to clinch their sixth consecutive division title. They took out the Atlanta Braves in four games of the division series, then the Brewers in seven.

Their shortstop, Corey Seager, twice an All Star, played 26 games then had Tommy John surgery. Their third baseman, Justin Turner, had a wrist injury, didn’t start the season until mid-May, and didn’t warm up until August. The bullpen became a moving target, Kenley Jansen suffered a recurrence of a heart ailment, Clayton Kershaw missed chunks of time because of a back and bicep issue, Matt Kemp faded badly in the second half, Hyun-jin Ryu made one start between the end of April and middle of August, and so all of the usual stuff that happens to many teams in the course of a summer. Those teams, however, generally do not conclude those seasons in the World Series.

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