Dodgers Grab Game 1 of NLDS as Skubal Shuts Down Braves, 5-3
Tarik Skubal's six shutdown innings staked the Dodgers to a 1-0 series lead over the Braves.
Film room is simple today, folks: one start, one assignment executed clean.
Per ESPN, Skubal came in Saturday and gave the Dodgers exactly what you want from your Game 1 starter — six innings, just one run let through. That kind of outing lets your offense play loose instead of pressing. Somewhere in that start he retired 15 hitters in a row. Fifteen straight. That's not luck. That's attacking the zone, hitting your spots, making the other team adjust to you instead of the other way around.
Final: Dodgers 5, Braves 3. NLDS lead, 1-0, heading to Game 2.
One game is one game. Don't go printing division series gear off a single start. But when your guy on the mound gives you a night like that in October, you take it, you bank it, and you get ready to do it again.
Grade for Game 1: strong up front, incomplete until I see the rest of the series. Keep blocking and tackling, Dodgers.
