The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series on Friday night.
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Manager Dave Roberts had a message for the team’s critics following the Dodgers’ Game 4 victory over the Brewers.
“Before the season started, they said, ‘The Dodgers are ruining baseball,’” Roberts said. “Let’s get four more wins and really screw up baseball.”
The Dodgers are now four wins away from winning their second straight World Series title. LA’s win over the Brewers was highlighted by a dominant performance from Shohei Ohtani.
The Dodgers’ two-way star pitched six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts and also hit three home runs to help the defending champions punch their ticket to the Fall Classic. Ohtani became the first pitcher in MLB history to hit a leadoff home run in the regular season or postseason.
It was an epic night for Ohtani, who had struggled earlier in the postseason, posting a .103 average with no home runs and striking out 48 percent of the time. Friday was Ohtani’s redemption game, in which he orchestrated perhaps the most dominant postseason performance of all time.
“Whatever you don’t expect, expect him to do. I’ve been pretty good in a lot of those moments,” Roberts said of Ohtani.
The Dodgers don’t yet know who they will play in the Fall Classic, as the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays face each other in Game 6 of the ALCS on Sunday.
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