Statcast of the Day: Kershaw vs. Baez

CHICAGO — With two game-winning hits already on his list of postseason highlights, Javier Baez fell only feet short of delivering another on Sunday night. What would have sent Wrigley Field into a frenzy and revived seventh-inning horrors of postseasons past for Clayton Kershaw instead represented the Cubs’ final fruitless attempt to get to the Dodgers’ lefty, who pitched Los Angeles to a 1-0 win in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had just been talked into sticking with his starter by a look in Kershaw’s eye, and so the skipper settled back in the dugout ready to watch the game’s best take on one of October’s hottest.

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Baez had already broken up Kershaw’s no-hitter with a two-out single two innings earlier, and now he stepped up to the plate with two out, Anthony Rizzo on first, and the Cubs trailing by one in the seventh.

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