Dodgers one win away from first World Series since 1988
by Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times
Oct 18, 2017
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Yu Darvish stepped outside the batter's box as his eyes registered the location of the last pitch. It was a fastball from Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr., like the three pitches before it, and it was not a strike, like the three before it. Darvish roared and chucked his bat into the grass. The trajectory of the lumber was not majestic - it felt more visceral, the stunned reaction of Darvish seeing fortune smile on the Dodgers.
In a postseason packed with bat flips, this one in the sixth inning of a 6-1 victory over
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