Dodgers, Blake Snell and World Series
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Take Game 1 of the NLCS against the Brewers. Snell turned one of the best fastball-hitting lineups in baseball into a group left scratching its heads. Snell, holding on to a 1-0 lead, made a living pitching backward, and dropped in a 0-0 curveball to Sal Frelick for a called first strike.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-time Cy Young Award winner detailed a brutal illness that forced a hospital stay.
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In a city where celebrity friendships bloom faster than palm trees grow, even Los Angeles wasn’t ready for this one: Blake Snell and Son Heung-min. That’s right—the Dodgers’ two-time Cy Young Award winner and LAFC’s newest global superstar have struck up the most unexpected,
Blake Snell enters Game 1 of the World Series in the form of his life. The Los Angeles Dodgers ' left-handed pitcher has been near-Koufaxian in the postseason, and it was an easy call for manager Dave Roberts to give him the ball for the first game of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Dodgers are set to play for their second consecutive World Series title, and they ought to feel good about handing the ball to their Game 1 starter, Blake Snell, a certified ace on a rotation full of aces.
Probable starting pitchers for Game 1 of the upcoming National League wild-card series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium are Hunter Greene for the Reds and Blake Snell for the Dodgers, per The Enquirer's Pat Brennan.