and Marcell Ozuna on three badly mislocated pitches. The Dodgers left-hander gave up solo home runs to Travis d’Arnaud, Ronald Acuña Jr. While Fried looked like the National League Cy Young runner-up he was last season, Urias doesn’t even look like a distant cousin to the third-place finisher he was. If you make a mistake that’s what’s going to happen.” Obviously these guys, you know can hit it out of the ballpark. There wasn’t a whole lot of chase or swing-and-miss. There were a lot of pitches middle-middle. We really didn’t have an answer for him tonight. Then he started throwing changeups to the lefties. Curveball thrown for a strike, down below for swing-and-miss. The Dodgers didn’t get a runner to second base until the seventh. He also got two double-play grounders when he did allow a baserunner. It was the fourth double-digit strikeout game of his career and the first since 2019. ![]() That produced eight of the 15 swings-and-misses the Dodgers had against him. Making his sixth start since returning from a forearm injury that sidelined him for three months, Fried struck out six of the first eight Dodgers he faced and allowed just three hits – two of them infield singles.įried struck out 10 in his seven innings, particularly carving up the Dodgers with his curveball. ![]() But on Friday, Fried gave the Braves the kind of shutdown performance it’s difficult to imagine the Dodgers getting from any of their starters in October – if any of them can emerge from the forest of openers and bulk guys and piggybacks likely to be deployed. Spencer Strider was serviceable in the series opener. ![]() Lance Lynn and Urias have combined to allow 12 runs on 16 hits, including six home runs, in 9⅓ innings for the Dodgers – with rookies scheduled to start the next two games (Emmet Sheehan and Bobby Miller). The MLB leaders with 256 home runs this season, the Braves have hit six home runs while winning the first two games, building six-run leads each night.įor all of the slugging, though, the most worrisome aspect for the Dodgers has to be the gap in starting pitching that has been exposed on the first two nights of this four-game series. The Atlanta Braves hit three home runs off of Dodgers starter Julio Urias and rode Max Fried’s seven scoreless innings to a 6-3 victory on Friday night. LOS ANGELES - If this series truly is a playoff preview, the Dodgers might not like the full-length feature.
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