This time the bubble machine wasn’t the only thing making
bubbles at Dodger Stadium.
Los Angeles celebrated winning the National League West by
breaking out the bubbly tonight after crushing San Francisco 9-1.
Clayton Kershaw (21-3) pitched eight innings and Yasiel Puig
dazzled the sellout crowd with an opposite field home run at the plate and
another highlight reel putout throw from center that cut down San Francisco’s
Gregor Blanco trying to go from first to third on a single to right center.
Kershaw helped his own cause in the fifth inning when he
tripled off Tim Hudson to score Carl Crawford and tie the score at 1-1.
The Dodgers then opened the floodgates in the sixth inning when
Puig drilled an 0-2 pitch into the bleachers in right field, Matt Kemp doubled
to right center, Hanley Ramirez drew an intentional walk and Crawford doubled
to right to score two. Juan Uribe then capped the scoring with single to left
that scored Crawford and the Dodgers were up 5-1.
The Dodgers put the game out of reach in the eighth with
another four-run inning keyed by four walks, a hit batter and a single by Uribe
that plated two runs.
Kershaw scattered eight hits over eight innings and struck
out 11, lowering his major league-leading ERA to 1.77.
Brian Wilson, the former San Francisco closer, pitched the
ninth inning and after giving up a double to open the inning retired the side
in order.
With the final weekend of the regular season left to play,
the Dodgers figure to meet St. Louis in the National League Division Series, a
rematch of last year’s National League Championship Series won by the
Cardinals.
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