Freddie Freeman called Andy Pages' at-bat against Padres closer Mason Miller -- which yielded the game-winning run for the Dodgers -- 'one of the greatest at-bats I've ever seen in person, and I've been playing a long time.'
threw after the errant pickoff throw that placed the winning run on third base was a fastball clocked at 100.8 mph.
"I never thought he was gonna strike me out or dominate me," Pages said. "I was 100% certain I was gonna move the ball forward. "closer who has been practically unhittable this season, proceeded to attack with 101 mph fastballs and knee-buckling sliders, and Pages either fouled them off or took them for balls.
On the ninth pitch of the at-bat, he drove a 101.5 mph fastball just far enough for, who homered twice, called it "one of the greatest at-bats I've ever seen in person, and I've been playing a long time.
" Miller entered with a 0.82 ERA and major-league-leading 15 saves, the last one coming in a 1-0 Padres victory Monday that saw him recover from two leadoff walks. Of the 84 batters he had faced, 45 had struck out. Of the 50 101 mph fastballs he'd thrown for strikes, zero had been put in play and only 17 had been fouled off.
Pages fouled off two such pitches himself, then lifted the other for the game-winning RBI -- 24 hours after grounding out against Miller to end Monday's game.
"To me, he's simply a pitcher who throws hard," Pages said. "He's a good pitcher, but to me, he's simply a pitcher who throws hard, and if you're able to get on time against him, you can do damage against him.
" The Dodgers entered this three-game series against their bitter rivals with a half-game lead in the National League West, and through the first two nights, nothing has changed.each snapped relatively long homerless droughts to make it a 2-2 game after the first inning. After Andujar followed with a two-run homer in the third, the Dodgers got a run-scoring groundout fromchallenged a full-count slider that was called a strike and got it overturned.
Call came in to pinch-run and attempted to steal second base, hoping to take advantage of a pitcher who rarely attempts pickoffs. Call broke too early and got caught in between, but Miller's throw sailed into right field, allowing Call to advance to third base.
"I just let it speed up on me a little bit and yanked it," Miller said. "I probably threw it a little harder than I should've, too. " The Padres have been one of the NL's best teams this season, keeping pace with the star-studded Dodgers, despite a patchwork rotation and minimal offensive production from Machado,, the latter of whom remains homerless. They've done so largely because of their dominant bullpen, highlighted by the game's best closer.
"He's great, and no one's gotten him," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "We feel good about our guys, and still, the game plan is to keep him out of the game. That's still the plan. But I felt that in two nights against him, we put together some good at-bats to stress him a little bit.
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