160/.226/.243 batting line in two-strike counts during the regular season. They had six two-strike hits against him in Game 1, so that's 10 two-strike hits in the series.
Much like Game 1, the Dodgers hung in well against Fried in Game 5, and the result was four hits in two-strike counts. There's still at least one more game to go, but at this point it seems pretty clear Taylor will be named NLCS MVP if the Dodgers come back to win the series, and Eddie Rosario will be named NLCS MVP if the Braves manage to close it out. Cardinals in 2004 NLDS Game 3Īll told, Taylor is 9 for 17 with three walks and four strikeouts in the NLCS. They're the fourth and fifth Dodgers ever with multiple homers in an elimination game:
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(2020 Wild Card Series Game 2) and Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (1932 World Series Game 3). He and Taylor are the third set of teammates with multiple homers in a postseason game, joining Wil Myers and Fernando Tatis Jr. It should be noted Pollock went deep again later in Game 5 as well. His four homers in elimination games are the most ever in a single postseason.
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He's driven in nine runs in four elimination games this postseason (he had the walk-off two-run homer in the Wild Card Game and a sac fly in NLDS Game 4 against the Giants, plus 6 RBI in Game 5) the most ever by a Dodgers player in a single year. Incredible.Īll told, Taylor went 4 for 5 with three homers and 6 RBI in Game 5. All-time legends like Ruth, Reggie Jackson, George Brett, and Albert Pujols have hit three homers in a postseason game, but none did it with their team facing elimination. The only other Dodger with three homers in a postseason game is Enrique Hernández (Game 5 of the 2017 NLCS) and Taylor is the first player ever with three homers in an elimination game. He would have been the first player ever with four homers in a postseason game - there have only been 18 four-homer games in the regular season - but he'll instead have to settled for being only the 11th player ever with a three-homer game in the postseason (Babe Ruth did it twice). Taylor had a chance to hit a fourth home run as well, though he struck out in the eighth inning.
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