The Los Angeles Dodgers have punched their ticket to the World Series as they chase back-to-back titles, powered by six shutout innings and three home runs from superstar Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles completed a commanding sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series with an 5-1 win at home Friday.<\/p>\n
Ohtani set the tone early, shaking off a leadoff walk to strike out three straight batters in the first inning, then launching a home run at the top of the Dodgers’ order to ignite the offense.<\/p>\n
He finished a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with three solo home runs, while striking out 10 over six innings and allowing just two hits and three walks.<\/p>\n
Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez drove in one run on a 1-for-4 performance, Tommy Edman added a RBI, and Will Smith went 2-for-4 at the plate.<\/p>\n
Ohtani and the Dodgers’ dominant performance had fans in awe as they set their sights on a World Series repeat.<\/p>\n
Ohtani’s leadoff homer at the top of the Dodgers’ order sparked a three-run first inning. Edman followed with a RBI single, and Hern\u00e1ndez grounded out to first but brought in Smith for the team’s third run.<\/p>\n
The two-way star stayed red-hot, crushing a 469-foot homer that left the stadium in the fourth and adding another in the seventh \u2014 his third of the night \u2014 to push the Dodgers’ lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee scored their first run of the game in the eighth inning on a Brice Turang RBI, but the score would hold at 5-1, with Roki Sasaki closing out the game for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Dodgers will await the winner of the American League Championship Series between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays, with Seattle currently holding a 3-2 lead. The World Series is set to begin on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers have punched their ticket to the World Series as they chase back-to-back titles, powered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-233010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}