‘The ending’s the worst’: Yankees manager Aaron Boone on ALDS loss to Blue Jays
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone spoke to the media after his teams loss to the Blue Jays in the ALDS
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Having already extended the series, the Philadelphia Phillies will try to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Division Series to send the series back to Pennsylvania for a winner-take-all finale.
The Phillies’ bats finally came alive for an 8-2 win in Game 3 on Wednesday and Kyle Schwarber snapped out of his slump with two home runs including a monstrous 455-foot blast that got things started for the visitors. Philadelphia blew it open with five runs in the eighth against Clayton Kershaw, who came on in relief with the Dodgers down 3-1.
Cristopher Sanchez (13-5, 2.50 ERA) starts for the Phillies, while Tyler Glasnow (4-3, 3.19 ERA) takes the mound with the Dodgers trying again to close out the series.
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WIth runners on first and third and two outs after third baseman Alec Bohm’s error, Phillies starter got Mookie Betts to ground out and end the bottom of the third.
Game 4 is scoreless heading into the fourth inning.
Mookie Betts led off the bottom of the second with a single against Cristopher Sanchez, then Tommy Edman hit a line drive to left field that looked to be heading for the gap until Max Kepler laid out to make a spectacular diving catch. Sanchez then got Will Smith to ground into an inning-ending double play.
Game 4 is underway at Dodger Stadium and the Phillies threatened in the top of the first with Kyle Schwarber’s one-out double. But Tyler Glasnow got Bryce Harper to ground out and struck out Brandon Marsh swinging after walking Alec Bohm.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers, who have not used closer Tanner Scott this postseason, no longer trusting him to pitch in crucial situations, removed him from their postseason roster Thursday before Game 4 of the National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Dodgers received permission from MLB to take him off their roster and replace him with left-handed reliever Justin Wrobleski.
Scott, who received a four-year, $72 million free agent contract, is now ineligible to pitch for the Dodgers until the World Series, if the Dodgers advance. Scott, who had warmed only briefly in their NL wild card series against the Cincinnati Reds, underwent an “abscess incision” in his lower body, with Dodgers manager Dave Roberts calling it a minor procedure. — Bob Nightengale
Trea Turner (R) SSKyle Schwarber (L) DHBryce Harper (L) 1BAlec Bohm (R) 3BBrandon Marsh (L) CFJ.T. Realmuto (R) CMax Kepler (L) LFNick Castellanos (R) RFBryson Stott (L) 2BShohei Ohtani (L) DHMookie Betts (R) SSTeoscar Hernández (R) RFFreddie Freeman (L) 1BTommy Edman (S) 2BWill Smith (R) CAlex Call (R) LFEnrique Hernández (R) 3BAndy Pages (R) CF
First pitch is scheduled for 6:08 p.m. ET at Dodger Stadium.