The Dodgers made Brandon Woodruff lose his mind after a Mookie Betts RBI double in the fifth.
This seemed destined to be another Brewers-Dodgers rock fight in a potential clincher, and Brew Crew righty Brandon Woodruff certainly came to play.
Through almost five complete innings, Woodruff held the LAD down before a botched double play ball gave Austin Barnes enough of a window to sneak a seeing-eye single up the middle to finally break a scoreless tie.
That brought up Mookie Betts, of course, as the relentless Dodgers offense kept on chugging. In the blink of an eye, this was a 3-0 game.
That’s just an absolute thing of beauty.
And when Craig Counsell took Woodruff out of the game, he made sure to take the opportunity to let the home plate umpire know exactly how beautiful he thought this game really was.
The second the ball left his hand and settled in Counsell’s palm, Woodruff unleashed a visceral, “F@%$!” And then another. And, just like that, he found himself ejected, gone from a game he was no longer a part of.
Geez, was it something I said?
On the bump for the good guys, Clayton Kershaw has been — how you say — a bit more composed thus far? For the early innings, Kersh and Woodruff matched wits, with both men tossing up zeroes in what seemed like it just might be an annoying attempt to squash the inferior, but cockroach-like Brewers.
But once a bad throw on a potential double play bounced, making the scoop at first base difficult in the fifth, that was the break the Dodgers needed to get under Woodruff’s skin.
And when he left the game, he had plenty of aggression to get out before he made his way to the showers.
Who hurt you? Oh, it was the Dodgers? Carry on, then.
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