LOS ANGELES – The Atlanta Braves haven’t played a lot of playoff games the past five years. In fact that number would be one, the one they played here Thursday night. Upon their first-game re-entry into relevance, that heel-turn coming a bit sooner than anyone – including the Atlanta Braves – might have expected, it is possible, probable even, they would have lost no matter how they’d played.
Hyun-jin Ryu was very forceful, if one may view a precision changeup in such terms. And the Los Angeles Dodgers did what they generally do, which is to pick out a few pitches over the course of a few hours and cold-jack them into the bleachers.