MLB roundup: Dodgers, Astros advance
Oct 10, 2017 - 8:17 PM PHOENIX -- Rookie Cody Bellinger homered and drove in two runs, Yu Darvish pitched five strong innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers swept their way into the National League Championship Series with a 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the NL Division Series on Monday.Bellinger and Austin Barnes homered off Zack Greinke (0-1). Darvish (1-0) gave up one run and struck out seven in five-plus innings to send the Dodgers to the NLCS against the winner of the Chicago Cubs-Washington Nationals series. The Cubs beat the Dodgers in six games in the NLCS last year.
Bellinger, the likely NL Rookie of the Year, had 39 regular-season homers but was 1-for-12 in the NLDS before his opposite-field homer made it 2-0 in the fifth inning.
Barnes' homer gave Darvish a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning, and the Dodgers used four relievers to hold on. Kenley Jansen recorded his second save of the series.
Astros 5, Red Sox 4
BOSTON -- Houston clinched its first trip to the American League Championship Series with a victory against Boston in Game 4 of the AL Division Series.
Josh Reddick drove in the go-ahead run on a two-out single to left field in the eighth inning off Boston's Craig Kimbrel, who replaced starter-turned-reliever Chris Sale (0-2) in the eighth after Houston tied it.
Pinch hitter Carlos Beltran doubled home a two-out insurance run in the ninth. Rafael Devers cut the Astros' deficit to one with an inside-the-park home run to lead off the Boston ninth against Ken Giles, but the Houston closer completed two innings for the save.
Cubs 2, Nationals 1
CHICAGO -- Anthony Rizzo delivered a go-ahead, two-out RBI single in the eighth inning as Chicago beat Washington to take a 2-1 lead in the National League Division Series.
Rizzo dropped a bloop single into shallow center field off Oliver Perez to score pinch runner Leonys Martin. Tommy La Stella led off the inning with a walk, and Martin went to second on a bunt.
After being held without a hit by Nationals starter Max Scherzer for 6 1/3 innings, the Cubs tied the game at 1 in the seventh. Ben Zobrist's double into the gap in left-center broke up Scherzer's no-hitter before pinch hitter Albert Almora Jr. followed with an RBI single off reliever Sammy Solis.
Yankees 7, Indians 3
NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge capped a four-run second inning with a two-run double, and New York capitalized on shoddy defense by Cleveland to even the AL Division Series at two games apiece.
The decisive Game 5 is Wednesday in Cleveland, where the Indians will be looking to snap a five-game losing streak in elimination games. The Yankees will look to rally from a 2-0 deficit to win an ALDS for the second time.
Yankees starter Luis Severino (1-0) allowed three runs on four hits and a walk in seven innings, pitching most of the night with a sizable lead. After getting one out on Oct. 3 in the AL wild-card game against the Minnesota Twins, he bounced back Monday to strike out nine and throw 113 pitches.
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