It took nine innings for the Dodgers to officially secure their win over the Mets, but unofficially they only needed one as Los Angeles won 5-0 in Tuesday night’s contest.
In the first inning, Brandon Nimmo led off the game with a three-base error that bounced off the glove of a stumbling and crawling Jason Heyward, but Nimmo, like every other Mets batter, would not score against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers as the 199-game winner struck out the next three batters in order.
In the bottom half of the first inning, 11-game winner Tylor Megill allowed a single to Freddie Freeman and immediately allowed a home run to J.