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Beverly Hill: Credit LA lefty as Cubs go chopping
- Updated: October 19, 2016
LOS ANGELES — In the space of two nights — one in northeastern Illinois, one in Southern California — the postseason outlook of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been changed, altered, improved and perhaps even utterly transformed.
This was, up until the last two nights of baseball in the National League Championship Series, The Year of the Cub.
• NLCS Game 4: Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on FS1
Game Date Time Matchup TV/Highlights Gm 1 Oct. 15 CHC 8, LAD 4 Gm 2 Oct. 16 LAD 1, CHC 0 Gm 3 Oct. 18 LAD 6, CHC 0 Gm 4 Oct. 19 8 p.m. CHC @ LAD FS1 Gm 5 Oct. 20 8 p.m. CHC @ LAD FS1 *Gm 6 Oct. 22 TBD LAD @ CHC FS1 *Gm 7 Oct. 23 TBD LAD @ CHC FS1 * If necessary | All times listed ET • NLCS coverageShop for postseason gear: Cubs | Dodgers
The Dodgers? Nice season, a fourth straight division title and they hung in there when Clayton Kershaw was out with a herniated disk; thrilling victory over the Nationals in the NL Division; terrific job in Game 5 by closer Kenley Jansen and the closer of the day, Kershaw himself.
But against the Cubs? Particularly after an 8-4 Chicago victory in the NLCS opener, it appeared that the Dodgers were going to be mere supporting actors in the drama of the Cubs’ journey toward their first World Series championship in 108 years.
But the perspective has shifted; especially after Kershaw gave the Dodgers seven brilliant innings and Jansen gave them two spotless innings in a 1-0 Game 2 victory. And particularly after what happened Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium in a 6-0 Los Angeles victory in Game 3.
In the rich history of the Dodgers franchise, it is now time to carve out a little space for the saga of Rich Hill.
This is what the Dodgers needed in the NLCS against the heavily favored Cubs—a starter other than Kershaw to give them a competitive, effective, reasonably long start.
And this is exactly what they received from Hill, 36, who originally came up with the Cubs and who was …
