LA Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1
When: 10:10 PM ET, Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Temperature:
79°
Umpires:
Home -
Chad Fairchild, 1B -
Dan Bellino, 2B -
Bill Miller, 3B -
Adrian Johnson
Attendance:
53387
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Dodgers 9, Giants 1: Ace left-hander Clayton Kershaw wrapped up the National League West title for host Los Angeles, striking out 11 in eight superb innings to earn his major league-leading 21st victory.
Kershaw (21-3) also used his bat and glove to ensure the Dodgers would repeat as division champions, winning his seventh consecutive start by allowing one run on eight hits and delivering an RBI triple to match his career high in victories. Yasiel Puig homered and drove in a pair, Juan Uribe had three RBIs and Carl Crawford added two RBIs and three runs scored.
Gregor Blanco, Pablo Sandoval and Andrew Susac had two hits apiece but Blanco also committed a pair of costly blunders on the basepaths for San Francisco, which remained one game behind Pittsburgh for the top wild card and holds a four-game lead over Milwaukee with four to play. Tim Hudson (9-13) lost his fourth straight start, yielding three runs on five hits over 5 1/3 innings.
Kershaw made a spectacular behind-the-back stab of a comebacker by Hudson with runners at second and third in the third inning and limited the damage to one run before starting his team's comeback in the fifth inning with a two-out triple up the alley in right-center to tie it at 1-1. Los Angeles broke it open one inning later, taking the lead for good when Puig cranked an 0-2 fastball from Hudson into the seats in right.
Matt Kemp doubled to chase Hudson in favor of Javier Lopez, who intentionally walked Hanley Ramirez before Crawford drilled a double into the right-field corner to plate both runners for a 4-1 edge. Uribe capped the uprising with an RBI single and added a two-run single in a four-run eighth.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Kershaw improved to 5-for-15 with runners in scoring position this season with his first career triple. ... Hudson joined Toronto's Mark Buehrle as the only active pitchers in the majors to surpass 3,000 innings. ... RF Hunter Pence was hitless in four at-bats against Kershaw to fall to 4-for-53 lifetime against the left-hander, who lowered his major league-leading ERA to a miscroscopic 1.77. ... The Giants return home for a four-game series versus San Diego while Los Angeles hosts Colorado for three games beginning Friday.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.229 |
15 |
11 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| LA Dodgers
|
8 |
1 |
15 |
.267 |
14 |
6 |
9 |
6 |
1 |
2 |
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