I hope the Dodgers get this kind of performance from Alex Wood in the playoffs
7 innings 2 runs 4-1 K/BB 66.7% ground balls, that’ll do, that’ll certainly do. It seems like when his command is working, his pitches are working, and when his pitches are working he’s working.
That sounded like a Tim McCarver quote, but it’s true, Hyun-Jin Ryu’s success was basically predicated on fastball velocity, Wood’s is correlated pretty heavily with his command.
On the offensive side of things, Corey Seager, preferred game 1 NLDS starter at SS, Corey Seager hit a single and walked once to lower his wOBA to .