Urias, Dodgers unravel in 4th inning of Game 4 blowout loss

The Cubs, having gone 108 years without winning a World Series, and feeling as if it were almost that long since they last scored a run, seized control of the National League Championship Series by burying the Los Angeles Dodgers, 10-2.

Game 6: Saturday, Dodgers (Kershaw) at Cubs, TBA. “We’ve run into this quite a bit this postseason, and it’s part of the postseason, man”, said Maddon, mentioning the Cubs’ difficulties hitting against the San Francisco Giants and RHP Johnny Cueto, in particular, in the National League Division Series.

With two outs, Andrew Toles singled to right field. I think people see that in us. “It’s very exciting stuff”.

Maeda is 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA in his two postseason starts and he acknowledged Wednesday that “I haven’t been pitching well”. “That (fourth) inning (scoring four) kind of busted things out for us”.

Gonzalez also said that the replay official should not be an umpire, but a person independent of the umpires, a person who would be perhaps less reluctant to overturn the calls of his peers.

This could not have come at a more opportune time.

The Dodgers were powered by 13 hits, including two homers from their two coldest bats in Anthony Rizzo and Addison Russell.

“They didn’t give me an explanation”, Gonzalez said.

But first, the Cubs have to win Thursday night.

Then another single, and then another – the Cubs were on the board. A five-run lead was more than enough for veteran John Lackey who finished the game with four innings allowing two runs on three hits and the Chicago bullpen.

Of the 77 pitches Jon Lester threw in Game 1, almost 86 percent of them were some type of fastball, which is in line with how Lester has been attacking hitters throughout 2016.

It all started in the fourth as a snowball rolling downhill. Among the 21 pitchers all-time with at least 15 career starts in the postseason, Lester’s 2.57 career postseason ERA is second best (Curt Schilling, 2.23). Jason Heyward, he of the $184 million contract, was useless at the plate, too.

We can guess which bat he’ll be using in Game 5, particularly considering this is no fluke, Szczur says, recalling the time he hit his 30th and 31st homers of the season with his bat.

“Up five runs, yeah”, he said. “I feel like I’ve been seeing the ball well, taking some pretty good swings”.

As angry as he seemed? “That’s the team that got all those wins this year”. “Glad to see our offense Error: Break shortcode syntax invalid”. With Lester on the mound and the Cubs’ hitters gaining confidence, I like their odds. The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasn’t happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: Win a World Series. He admitted to struggling with his secondary pitches during his in game interview last night.

“You can keep pushing”, he said. “I haven’t been doing well, so I really want to – I have the desire to really want to do well, and that’s what I’m going to try to do”. In the same way that Game 2 was one the Dodgers basically had to win to have a real chance, Game 5 could determine the entire series.

Now it’s essentially a three-game series; Game 5 is Thursday in Los Angeles.