Just a week earlier, he looked as if he was a reason, if not the reason, the Dodgers couldn’t win the World Series.
Sunday night, he became a reason they could.
In a 9-0 victory over the New York Mets in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, Jack Flaherty delivered the kind of performance that will immortalize him in these parts if his team parades down Sunset Boulevard early next month.
Flaherty was Sandy Koufax.
Flaherty was Fernando Valenzuela.
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Flaherty was Orel Hershiser.