Dodgers MVPs are M.I.A. in NLDS sweep

The Dodgers’ 1-2 hitters had been removed from a 1-2 punch of their three-game sweep by the hands of the Diamondbacks. Betts went 0-for-11 with a stroll. Freeman was 0-for-10 with two walks. They mixed to attain two runs, each coming when Betts and Freeman walked forward of Will Smith’s two-run triple in Sport 1 – after the Dodgers had been already down 11-0.

Betts had an amazing common season, scoring 126 runs and driving in 107 whereas hitting 39 house runs and protecting proper subject, second base and even shortstop for the Dodgers. Freeman was nearly nearly as good, hitting .331 and scoring 132 runs, with 29 homers. However regardless of the 2 slugging .579 and .567, respectively, this summer time, neither one might handle an extra-base hit in three postseason video games.

They weren’t the one Dodgers hitters to battle. The workforce scored solely two runs in every of the Division Collection video games, whereas Arizona scored greater than two runs in 4 totally different innings. It may not have made a distinction after Clayton Kershaw melted down in Sport 1 and Lance Lynn gave up four homers in a single inning Wednesday, but it surely was a tough sequence for the 2 stars.

It is the second yr in a row that the Dodgers have misplaced within the Division Collection. Final yr, Freeman hit .357 with 4 extra-base hits towards the San Diego Padres whereas Betts struggled, going 2-for-14.

They’re going to have a very long time to consider it. As soon as once more, the Dodgers are going house two weeks into October.