Filthy Rich: LA blanks Cubs again!

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LOS ANGELES — Jake Arrieta threw a no-hitter when he pitched in Dodger Stadium 14 months ago. But that was then and this is the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers lead it, two games to one, after Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner took Arrieta deep and Rich Hill silenced the Cubs in a 6-0 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.

With the Dodgers’ starting rotation shorthanded and needing innings from Hill, the former Cubs lefty delivered six scoreless to outpitch Arrieta. Hill snapped curveball after curveball and allowed only a pair of singles to Kris Bryant. With Chicago’s offense gone haywire, Hill struck out six and performed an amazing in-game turnaround after a bizarre 30-pitch second inning he somehow escaped without allowing a run.

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A .100 hitter for his first 20 at-bats this postseason, the 27-homer version of Grandal reappeared by rocketing a two-run shot with two out in the fourth inning. Turner, who matched Grandal’s 27 homers in the regular season, chased Arrieta by leading off the sixth inning with his second blast of the postseason.

Grandal hit a 93.2-mph fastball and sent it out at 107.8 mph, according to Statcast™, scoring Josh Reddick, who had reached on an infield single and stole second and third. Turner’s homer came on a slider and had an exit velocity of 105 mph. The Dodgers have homered in all eight of their postseason games, matching the second-longest streak in Los Angeles franchise …

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