Andy Pages just dropped a bomb on the Atlanta Braves, hitting a two-run single in the seventh inning that broke a tie and snagged a 4-1 win for the Dodgers. That hit sealed the deal on Wednesday night at Truist Park, clinching the NLDS and sending the Dodgers straight to their third National League Championship Series in a row. Talk about clutch.
The Rally That Finally Broke Through
It took way too long, honestly, until the seventh inning of Game Four, for the Dodgers to even get their first hit all series with a runner in scoring position. Seriously, an 0-for-14 skid with runners on base to start the series, but Pages was the guy who finally snapped it. The whole rally kicked off when Teoscar Hernández singled, right after he basically body-slammed the left field wall chasing a Braves double in the inning before. That was it for Braves pitcher Tyler Mahle, who had been straight up owning the Dodgers, still pitching into the seventh. Game 2 Braves hero Didier Fuentes came in, and his second batter was 21-year-old pinch-hitter Josue De Paula, making just his second postseason plate appearance. De Paula walked, then got pulled for pinch-runner Tommy Edman. Kyle Tucker walked right after, loading the bases for Pages, the Dodgers RBI leader this season, to smash that two-run single.
Pages’ Hot Bat and Bullpen Shut Down
Pages had been quiet in the first two games of the series, but then he woke up, putting up two hits in Game 3 and two more in Game 4. That’s four hits right there, matching his entire postseason total from 2025. And that first run he drove in? It was the first earned run Mahle had allowed against the Dodgers in a wild 22 straight innings, a streak that went all the way back to 2022! On the mound, Edgardo Henriquez stepped in with one out in the sixth, stranded a runner on second, then delivered a scoreless seventh, perfectly sandwiching that Dodgers rally. He absolutely earned the win. Just like in Game 3, Tanner Scott locked down the eighth, and Edwin Díaz closed it out in the ninth. That’s the back end of their bullpen, finally looking fully intact since early April, holding the Braves to just eight total runs across the entire four-game series. And for good measure, Max Muncy mashed a solo homer in the ninth, padding that lead. That’s his 19th career postseason bomb, extending his Dodgers record, and he also went deep in Games 1 and 2 of this series. This matches his most prolific postseason series, right up there with his three homers in the 2019 NLDS against the Washington Nationals. Early on, both teams were trading mistakes, even throwing errant balls on stolen base attempts to give up runs, but the Dodgers cleaned it up when it mattered.
So now it’s onto the National League Championship Series for the Dodgers, their third straight. They fought through a tough series and now they’re just rolling, heading deeper into October. Who’s next to try and stop this machine?
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Originally reported by True Blue LA.
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