I have not blogged in awhile, so I will fill you in on the clinching teams. The Cleveland Indians clinched a spot in the ALCS on Monday with a 4-3 win against the Red Sox in what turned out to be David Ortiz’s last game. I will probably do a whole blog on him during the offseason. The Red Sox had many scoring opportunities, but the Indians prevailed. In Game 1 of the ALCS, Cleveland again took advantage of their opponent’s scoring opportunity failures by shutting out Toronto despite being out hit. Cleveland took a 2-0 lead by beating Toronto again, but they will have to play at the loud Rogers Centre.
The Chicago Cubs were down 5-2 in the ninth inning at San Francisco in Game 4 of the NLDS, but they came back to win 6-5 and advanced to the NLCS. Their opponents, the Los Angeles Dodgers, also won a hard fought battle. The Dodgers took Game 1, but Washington won the next two. The Dodgers forced a Game 5, in which they also won. The Nationals took an early lead, but the Dodgers stormed back with four runs. Washington made a little comeback, but Kenley Jansen preserved the lead. Then, Clayton Kershaw got his first career save, as the Dodgers advanced. The Cubs and Dodgers battled through Game One of the NLCS. The Cubs scored three runs in the first two innings, one of them on an accidental steal of home by Javier Baez, which you can see here.
The Dodgers got even though, but that changed with Miguel Montero’s clutch eighth inning grand slam here.
This is an exciting postseason with a lot of great teams, but I think the Cubs are the best out of the remaining four.
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