Louis Cardinals, who made the postseason in nine of Pujols’ 11 seasons with them. Pujols started 74 postseason games for the St. This will be Pujols’ first postseason start since the Angels were swept in three games by the Kansas City Royals in a 2014 American League Division Series. Shortstop Corey Seager will be the only left-handed hitter in the starting lineup against Wood. Chris Taylor will be in center field and AJ Pollock in left. The Dodgers will be facing a left-handed starting pitcher (Alex Wood) for the first time this postseason, prompting Roberts to change up his lineup.Īlbert Pujols will start at first base (the third different player to start there for the Dodgers in this postseason). “I think he feels he’s always the best option,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Wood, “which as Major League ballplayers, that’s a good thing.” LEFTY LINEUP On the field, the mutual familiarity with Wood could play to the advantage of either side. “He’s thinking about a game four, five, six days out or more.”Ī game against the Dodgers surely falls into the category of “or more.” Wood regularly messages his friends on the other side, but he’s limited himself this week to exchanging fantasy football advice. “The preparation is second to none,” Kapler said.
The 30-year-old left-hander is setting an example that Kapler hopes his team’s younger pitchers will emulate – the same example Wood once followed as a Dodger. Wood then continued to the team’s training garage, in the former players’ parking lot beyond left field, for what Kapler called “light” machine sprint work. Manager Gabe Kapler said Wood threw on the field alongside bullpen coach Craig Albernaz and pitching coach Andrew Bailey. So I’m excited for another opportunity to play in the postseason and contribute to a really good ballclub.”īefore he flew into Los Angeles, Wood spent his Sunday morning at Oracle Park in San Francisco. You really get to test yourself, separate the boys from the men.
“Every year’s different but there’s nothing better than this time of year. “I’m fortunate to have been in the postseason a lot,” said Wood, who will start opposite three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer on Monday. Wood pitched two scoreless innings in the Dodgers’ championship-clinching Game 6 win in last year’s World Series. All but two of his 20 postseason appearances came with the Dodgers, for whom he pitched from 2015-18, then again last season after an interregnum in Cincinnati. On an NLDS roster without veteran Johnny Cueto, Wood’s two career playoff starts are two more than any other Giant. But the 30-year-old left-hander has a similarly enviable quality among his teammates in the Giants’ starting rotation: postseason experience.
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Wood, who will start Game 3 of the National League Division Series for the San Francisco Giants on Monday night, is not nearly as decorated as his former teammates. “Just for guys to be at that level for that long is truly remarkable in this game,” Wood said Sunday. Their track record of success includes four Cy Young Awards.
Until the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the season, Price and Kershaw were two-fifths of the team’s starting rotation. LOS ANGELES - In spring training last year, Alex Wood frequently bumped elbows in the Dodgers’ clubhouse with David Price and Clayton Kershaw.
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