Dodgers Topped Mets In NLCS Opener

LOS ANGELES -- — Jack Flaherty came home after spending the first seven years of his big league career back East. He joined a winning team in the Los Angeles Dodgers and helped make some playoff history.

Flaherty combined on a three-hitter and Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers tied the postseason record of 33 consecutive scoreless innings by routing the New York Mets 9-0 Sunday night in the NL Championship Series opener.

Los Angeles knocked out a wild Kodai Senga in the second inning, built a six-run lead by the fourth, and matched the scoreless record set by Baltimore Orioles pitchers over the first four games of the 1966 World Series against the Dodgers.

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Mookie Betts added a three-run double in the eighth in the largest shutout victory margin in Dodgers postseason history, also the Mets' most one-sided postseason shutout defeat.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Monday afternoon on ESPN 102.3/AM 1000 KSOO.

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