For a third consecutive year, the Dodgers have advanced to the National League Championship Series. For a second consecutive year, they will be facing the team with the most wins in the regular season, that being the Milwaukee Brewers (again).<\/p>\n
The Dodgers lived and died by the long ball throughout the NLDS against the Atlanta Braves, with the exception for three runs out of the 14 scored in the four games. None of those blasts was more impactful than Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s two-run home run against Chris Sale in Game 3, as he helped make the difference in a 3-1 victory, helping the Dodgers gain an advantage over Atlanta in Game 4 to close it out.<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez continues to shine when it matters the most, becoming the Dodgers\u2019 secret assassin in October. His presence in the lineup, based on what he\u2019s done in his two games this postseason, is convincing enough for fans to believe in the team\u2019s ability to secure a three peat, per Sonja Chen of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe converts himself into this kind of monster when it comes to the playoffs and when it matters the most,\u201d Miguel Rojas said. \u201cHe wants the situation. He wants the moment. He wants to be the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n Two years ago, Shohei Ohtani suffered a left shoulder subluxation which left him utterly useless at the plate over the final three games of the 2024 World Series. In the end, his lack of production wasn\u2019t a drawback that year.<\/p>\n This year, however, represents a different case. Ohtani has not looked like his usual self at the plate, going just 2-13 with two singles and two walks over the four games against the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers have managed to advance without him hitting like a superstar, but Jack Harris of the California Post<\/a> wonders just how far the Dodgers can go with him hitting the way he has been since the start of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a third consecutive year, the Dodgers have advanced to the National League Championship Series. For a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,38410,8505,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":["post-825378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-dodgers-news-notes","tag-dodgers-links","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117411045963242295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}