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Atlanta has a reliable left-right setup combo in Tyler Matzek (2.57 ERA in 69 games) and Luke Jackson (1.98 ERA in 71 games), but the quality and depth of the bullpen drops off from there.ĭodgers Plaschke: Dodgers settle old scores, crush bad memories in grudge-match triumph over Giants Braves closer Will Smith has been anything but automatic, going 3-7 with a 3.44 ERA, converting 37 of 43 save opportunities and giving up 11 homers. The rest include setup man Blake Treinen, who went 6-5 with a 1.99 ERA in 72 regular-season games, 100-mph-throwing right-hander Brusdar Graterol, who has given up three hits and struck out three in 4 2/3 scoreless innings of five playoff games, and middle relievers Joe Kelly, Corey Knebel, Phil Bickford and left-hander Alex Vesia. If games are close heading into the final innings, the advantage will swing to the Dodgers, who have a much deeper and more dominant relief corps led by closer Kenley Jansen, who went 4-4 with a 2.22 ERA and 38 saves in the regular season and has struck out eight of the 10 batters he has faced in the playoffs. Though the Dodgers should have an edge in starting pitching, it’s not a decided edge. Key matchup: Each team’s bullpen against the opposing offense. Joc Pederson, who came off the bench in the first three division games, will assume a bigger role, replacing Soler in the outfield against the Dodgers’ right-handed starters. Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson spent most of the season hitting sixth, seventh or eighth, but, with leadoff man Jorge Soler out after testing positive for COVID-19, Swanson could assume a key role at the top of the order, where there is a bigger need to get on base in front of sluggers Freeman, Ozzie Albies and Austin Riley.

095 (four for 42) with two runs, one RBI, nine strikeouts and one walk in the division series. Bellinger has shaken off a brutal regular season to deliver several big playoff hits, and Gavin Lux has provided productive at-bats from the left side, but the Dodgers need more offense from the Turners, Trea and Justin, who combined to hit.

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450 (nine for 20) with a homer and four RBIs in the division series and had four hits, a big stolen base and scored a run in Thursday night’s clincher against the Giants. Key players: Betts, who played several months of the season with a painful bone spur in his right hip, is healthy and getting hot at the right time. Max Scherzer threw six shutout innings, giving up three hits and striking out nine, and AJ Pollock and Justin Turner hit eighth-inning RBI singles in a 4-3 comeback win in the finale. Walker Buehler gave up two runs and four hits in seven innings of a 3-2 win in the second game. Max Muncy, Will Smith, Mookie Betts and Corey Seager homered in a 5-3 win in the opener. The Dodgers swept a three-game series in Los Angeles, Aug. The Braves won two of three in Atlanta on June 4-6, their only win of the series coming when they scored eight runs on four hits and eight walks in a 9-5 victory on June 4. The NL East-winning Braves won 88 games, the fewest of all 10 playoff participants but shut out the Milwaukee Brewers in Games 2 and 3 of their division series and clinched a spot in the NLCS on Freddie Freeman’s eighth-inning tie-breaking homer off Josh Hader in Game 4 on Tuesday. Then they outlasted the division-rival and 107-game-winning San Francisco Giants in a thrilling five-game division series, Cody Bellinger’s ninth-inning RBI single giving them a 2-1 win in Game 5 Thursday night.

Louis Cardinals 3-1 in the wild-card game on Chris Taylor’s walk-off, two-run homer. How they got here: The Dodgers, who finished second in the NL West with a 106-56 record, beat the St.