{"id":3070,"date":"2021-10-15T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:33:04","slug":"la-dodgers-through-to-the-2021-nl-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/la-dodgers-through-to-the-2021-nl-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Dodgers Through To The 2021 NL Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Dodgers are through to the National League Championship thanks to a 2-1 game five win over divisional rivals the San Francisco Giants. It was a tense affair and one that had a surprise hero – Cory Bellinger whose ninth-inning base hit drove in the winning run. This was a great way to make up for a poor season where he had a pretty abysmal .165 batting average!<\/p>\n

Justin Tucker scored the all-important winning run and now the Dodgers will face last years Championship opponents The Atlanta Braves. That was a great series in which they came back from 3-1 down to win 4-3. A similarly exciting seven-game series would suit us.<\/p>\n

We tipped the Dodgers for the World Series<\/a> and after that gritty showing, they look capable of retaining their crown.<\/p>\n

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The Giants will be disappointed – after all, they amassed 108 wins and took the NL West title. Surprisingly this was the two sides first postseason meeting and hopefully not the last,<\/p>\n

You can keep abreast of the Postseason results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LA Dodgers are through to the National League Championship thanks to a 2-1 game five win over divisional rivals the San Francisco Giants. It was a tense affair and one that had a surprise hero – Cory Bellinger whose ninth-inning base hit drove in the winning run. This was a great way to make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14,38,2541],"tags":[2743],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-dodgers","category-national-league-west","category-san-francisco-giants","category-world-series","tag-2021-world-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}