The Dodgers jumped all over Max Fried with four straight hits and took a 3-2 lead on a leadoff homer by AJ Pollock and a two-run blast from Chris Taylor. Fried was lucky to get out of the inning with a one-run deficit — especially after he drilled Trea Turner to put runners on first and second — but he got out of it by coaxing a weak grounder from Corey Seager to Freddie Freeman.
Stephen J. Nesbitt: AJ Pollock came out firing. Fouled off Max Fried’s first offering, then found a four-seamer over the plate and delivered it to the fans in the left-center field to halve the lead.
Cody Stavenhagen: AJ Pollock is one of the best fastball hitters in the league. Fifteen of his 21 homers this year came off the four-seam fastball. Max Fried left that one just a bit too far over the plate.
Fabian Ardaya: The Dodgers offense got hot there, or at least the exit velocities did. Three straight balls squared up off Max Fried (AJ Pollock homer, Albert Pujols single, Chris Taylor homer) and it’s a 3-2 lead.
Nesbitt: Oh my. A nightmare sequence for Max Fried. After Pollock jumped a heater, Albert Pujols outlasted Fried a dumped a single into left, then Chris Taylor destroyed a first-pitch fastball into the bullpen beyond the left-field wall.
Steve Berman: And after Albert Pujols lines one to left for a single, Chris Taylor hits a first-pitch fastball out to left. 112 mph exit velocity, too. That escalated quickly.
Stavenhangen: So this isn’t what Max Fried had in mind. After an Albert Pujols single, a Chris Taylor blast to left field puts the Dodgers up 3-2. More starting pitching woes in what continues to be an odd postseason. Looked like two fastballs that Fried simply left over the plate.
David O'Brien: Fried, who gave up a solo homer to Will Smith in Game 1 of the NLCS, allowed just one homer in 35 innings over his last five regular-season starts, then limited the Brewers to three hits in seven scoreless innings of his first postseason start. Now the Dodgers are dinging him with long balls, and they are no-doubters.
Ardaya: The Dodgers have strung as many hits together to lead off the second inning against Max Fried as they had all game in Game 4.
O'Brien: Four consecutive hits including two homers to start the second inning against Fried, who gave up eight hits but only two runs in six innings of his Game 1 start in this series. Dodgers had only four hits in a Braves bullpen game in Game 4.
Nesbitt: Max Fried is shook. With two outs, Cody Bellinger bluffed stealing second base. Chase d’Arnaud tried to stop Fried’s delivery, but instead Fried basically threw home while watching first base. He ended up drilling Trea Turner up and in (he’s OK) to continue the inning.
Ardaya: Cody Bellinger looked dead in the water off first, but Fried kept going to the plate and hit Trea Turner on the shoulder. Trainer came out to check on Turner, but he’s staying in. Weird play. Fried looks off.
Stavenhagen: Rarely do you see an MLB pitcher so thrown off by the movement of a baserunner. Fried was right to continue his delivery home. But hitting the batter made a strange sequence even more strange.
O'Brien: Fried gave up just four homers and hit one batter while going 7-0 with a 1.46 ERA in 74 innings over his final 11 regular-season games. He's allowed two homers and hit a batter through two innings tonight, and it was a strange HBP after being distracted by the base runner (Fried has one of two or three best pickoff moves in baseball.).
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