Dodgers force Game 5 with 3-1 win over Mets

He rang up seven Dodgers via the strikeout in his 97-pitch outing, his first ever postseason start. The 2015 Major League Baseball playoffs live streaming and televised coverage will be presented via TBS on Tuesday night. Utley, who did not appear in Game 3 despite being eligible to play, did not start Game 4 against Mets lefthander Steven Matz.

Tuesday night he looked more like that regular-season animal: three hits, one walk, one run and eight Ks. He was able to throw 80 pitchers during a simulated game in Florida just last week, and previously pitched six innings with eight strikeouts and just two hits given up against the Dodgers on July 5 in his team’s 8-0 win.

“I know people are still probably up in arms about the whole thing, but I know Chase, he felt awful about the kid getting hurt”, Mattingly said. When someone questioned what went through the southpaw’s mind when Cespedes led off the frame with an infield single, Kershaw responded, “That’s really the first question I’m answering?” per Shaikin. Adrian Gonzalez blooped an RBI single and Turner added a two-run double, providing enough support for the lefty ace. “Just tonight we feel like he’s the right guy”.

Greinke earned the victory in Game 2 for the Dodgers with seven innings of two-run baseball. “Gotta get through the seventh”, per Shaikin.

The three-time Cy Young Award victor entered Tuesday’s Game 4 against the Mets with a reputation for postseason struggles, one fostered mostly by a couple of lousy starts against the St. Louis Cardinals in 2013 and 2014.

The 24-year-old Matz was pitching in a big league game for the first time in 19 days after a balky back sidelined him late in the season. Turner then smashed a hanging breaking ball into the left-field corner to bring in two additional runs.

Mets fans greeted Utley a former Philadelphia star, with loud booing and profane chants before and during Game 3. Let go by the Mets after the 2013 season – they declined to offer him arbitration – he is 7 for 15 (.467) in the series with four doubles and three RBIs. Wright said, “I don’t think anybody was going to outpitch Clayton Kershaw tonight”, per DiComo.

Tuesday’s start marked Matz’s first in the majors since September 24.

This time, the left-hander was pulled for a pinch hitter in the fifth after giving up three runs and six hits.

Dodgers: Slumping C Yasmani Grandal (left shoulder) was available off the bench after he “kind of pinched something” in his last at-bat Monday night, manager Don Mattingly said.

For bettors, the odds favor Los Angeles on the moneyline behind Kershaw with a price of -145 or higher.

Monday’s game had an awesome atmosphere at Citi Field with a sellout 44,276 in attendance, which was a record crowd for a Mets game in the stadium’s history.