DODGERS vs. BRAVES- NLDS Full Game 3 Highlights (October 6) - 2026 MLB Postseason 山本 由伸

We got a great pitching matchup. If you like hitting, nah, this is not going to be for you. This is about two dominant pitchers who represent their staffs as aces who are trying to get a two-to-one lead. Sailed to the mound 14-9 during the regular season. Johnny will have three runs or fewer in his last 24 starts. Mookie Betts climbs into the right-handed batter's box to lead off. Betts slaps it toward the first baseline. A fair ball just inside the line. And Olsen throws it behind his back to sail, covering the bag, not in time to reach. As Mookie Betts is aboard with an infield single. That was just a survival swing, poked it to the first-base side. But I'll tell you what, last time we saw Chris Sale dive, that was for a Juan Soto ground ball. He broke a rib. He's too skinny to be diving around that infield. You can hear the reaction as... That'll work. Had him reaching for it. And Freddie Freeman is Chris Sale's first victim tonight. So, with one out, here's Te'Oscar Hernandez. Betts takes off for second. Swing and a ground ball to short. And it's booted at short by Kim. Picks it up, and the throw is late. Ha-Sung Kim, a former gold-glover, one of the surest defenders at that particular position, could not handle the ground ball from Hernandez. Now runners at first and second. One down for Will Smith. See ya. Fastball, 98. He's late, two down after the second strikeout. And here comes Shohei Otani. Down he goes. Reaching for a filthy slider away. He needed a Bodor to reach that thing. And Sale with three strikeouts in the inning, getting Freeman, Smith, and Otani. Last year's World Series most viable player, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Baldwin won for six in this series. He has walked three times, struck out once. Swing, and a missed strike three. And that's the other thing that is challenging about Yamamoto, is he will throw any pitch in any count. Now Ronald Acuna Jr., the D.H. tonight, was initially supposed to start in right field. Yamamoto delivers the two-two and called strike three. And Acuna immediately tops his helmet. Second strikeout for Yamamoto. Had him out away, away, away, and he throws a fastball, paints it on the inside part of the plate. So the Braves lose a challenge. Yeah, it's just an emotional challenge. Yeah, it certainly was, Darren. There's absolutely no reason, nobody on base. First inning, no reason to challenge that pitch. Two down for Matt Olsen. We're scoreless in the bottom of the first inning. Olsen's jam, soft flare to second. One hopper to Rojas, back edge of the dirt. Plenty of time to throw out Olsen and complete a one-two-three bottom of the first for Yoshinobu Yamamoto. For the Dodgers, unless they're going to be more selective in pitches that are thrown, they're going to have a tough go tonight. He swings and misses at a slider. Strikeout number four for Chris Sayle. Lots of swing and miss right out of the gate. Now Andy Pajes, he has five strikeouts of the game. This is starting to look a lot like the Dodgers' last visit here to Atlanta when they faced Sayle August 27th when he authored a complete game shutout, didn't walk a Dodger, and he struck out 11. And that's seven swings at pitches that are not even close to the strike zone. Tucker swings at the first pitch, base hit into left field. Dodgers with a two-out base runner here in the second. Kike Hernandez has made a name for himself in the postseason. And it is a stolen base for Tucker, his second of this series, and he gets into scoring position with two outs. Well, the Dodgers, for obvious reasons, looking for a run here, but something that they are very vocal about with the press after game two is we've got to find a way to score a run without the long ball. Sayle has other plans. Swung on and missed. Six strikeouts for Chris. One trip to the order. Three more strikeouts for Sayle in the second. Six in the first two innings. The Dodgers strand another runner. So now the bottom of the second. Still no score for the Dodgers or Braves. If you want to know why Albies is batting right-handed, he's in a way that splitter, as a left-handed hitter, that splitter is deadly on left-handed hitters, so he chooses to bat right-handed. The one-two from Yamamoto. Albies down on strikes. And it's the splitter anyways that got him. And that's the third K for Yamamoto. One gone in the second. One out for Michael Harris. One-one from Yamamoto. Harris lays down the bunt. Boy, what a smart play there by Harris. Loved it. I loved it, guys. We talked about that maybe doing little things. I love this. Dealing with a guy that has given you trouble. When you bust him out of his rhythm, having to come off the mound and make a play like that and tumbling to the ground. That spot down there on the grass looked like I was playing golf with you guys. It's a big divot. That's the first base runner for the Braves. Harris now four for ten in the series. Here comes Mauricio Dubon. Harris goes. And Dubon shoots it into right center. Catch is made by Pajas as Harris returns to first. Michael had a great job. It looked like he would have been easily safe, but with two strikes, Mauricio didn't have the luxury to just take that and let it go by. Two down for Lane Thomas. Even count. Two balls, two strikes. The pitch from Yamamoto. Got him swinging. A splitter that was tailing down and in. Thomas couldn't lay off. Book-ending case for Yamamoto. Six strikeouts for sale over the first two innings. First Brave to do that in a postseason start since 2003. Mike Hampton. Game two of the National League Division Series. Mookie Betts with a single in the first inning. Betts hits it hard on the ground. Left side. Underneath the glove of Kim. It's short. Back edge of the dirt. And Mookie Betts is two for two. Now, it was a tough play for any shortstop. Kim going to his right again on the first cut of the grass. He already made an error earlier, and he garnered some groans here from the Braves fans after this play. Leadoff dodger aboard in front of Freddie Freeman. Lifted in the air towards deep left field. Going back to the wall. Dubon. He leaps, and Mauricio robbed him at the wall. His leap perfectly. And some hocus pocus out there to bring it in with some magic over the left-field wall. Incredible play. Takes away what would have been a two-run home run. There was no chance it looked like that. You see the Andrew Jones. Two outs. Betts on first. Will Smith. That's on the move. And Smith with a base hit into left field. Betts on his way to third. And he will hold there, so the Dodgers now have runners on the corners with two outs. So, here we go again. Ohtani at the plate. Two on, two out. Ohtani swings, bounces the ball. Third base side foul. And catcher's interference has been called on Drake Baldwin. So, that's Atlanta's second error of the game. It loads the bases for Miguel Rojas. Sao trying to walk the high wire here on the top of the third. Rojas swings and drives it in the air to right field. Lane Thomas on the other end. And he makes a chest-high catch. The Dodgers denied multiple times here in the third inning in what became a very frustrating top of the third for them. Six Dodgers left on base in the first three innings. Now the Braves trying to dent the line of Yashinobu Yamamoto. He's allowed one hit, a bunt base hit by Michael Harris. It's Riley, Kim, and Baldwin. Austin Riley looking for his first hit of the series. He's 0 for 7. The two-ball, two-strike pick. His strike three. Swing and a miss over the top of a splitter down beneath the zone. That is trademark Yamamoto. For Yamamoto, 38 catches to this point. Completes his first time through the Atlanta order. Bing's turnover for Drake Baldwin. Got him swinging. Strikes him out with a curve yet again. Book-ending Kays in a 1-2-3 third inning. Yamamoto already up to six punch-outs. Three scoreless innings in the books. Had a base hit in the left field. That's about the third ball they've hit over there that looked exactly like that. Andy Paez with his first hit of this postseason. Lines out. And see, that's the difference. Tucker's locked in right now, and that ball was down. He got his barrel to the bat to it. Didn't get a hit, unfortunately. One down for Quique Hernandez, who struck out swinging in the second inning. Quique Hernandez crushes one. Deep left field at the wall. And hit in October. Ors. The legend of postseason Quique continues. Just a .235 hitter. During the regular season, .272 in the postseason. A lot of big moments like that one. Two more runs on the home run ball for the Dodgers. No doubt about what we just saw from Hernandez. Dive and stop by Riley. The retired Vets for round number two. Talked about Riley's defense. It has always been on display. Now Freddie Freeman. Freddie Freeman lifts it high in the air to deep right center field. On the warning track, at the wall. It's gone! Voting out one of the last inning. Takes Chris Sale deep here in the fourth. Second home run of the inning for the Dodgers. Make it 3-0. He was denied the home run, the left field in the third. Yeah, watch this one, folks. The third time that Freeman has homered off of sale in his career. Now the Braves are trying to land any kind of punch they can versus Yamamoto. They have one hit. It was a bunt single down the third baseline by Michael Harris. There's the 0-1 to Matt Olsen. And he rips a base hit into right field. Only the second hit of the game for the Atlanta Braves and the first one that has left the infield. Single by Olsen. Here comes Ozzie Albies. Albies 0-1 with a K. Swing and a miss, strike three. Oh, ate him up with a fastball at 97. Up and in, maybe off the zone a little bit, but still strikeout number seven for Yamamoto. So two outs. Here's Harris. Now the payoff. Runner goes. Bouncer left side. Quique picks it on a short hop, throws across his body on the money to Freddie Freeman. And there's the shutdown inning. Will Smith leading off for the Dodgers. Smith swings and misses for strike three, and that's the first strikeout for Chris since the second inning. There's Rojas with two away. Ground ball to short. On it out there is Kim. He sends it over to Olsen, and it is a 1-2-3 fifth inning. So definitely a get-back-on-track inning for Sale. We'll see if he sticks around for the sixth. Three runs, seven hits for the Dodgers. Braves, no runs, only two base hits. How about this, John? Yamamoto with at least three runs of support, 33 at all, including the postseason. That's impressive. The 2-2. Well, it drops in for a base hit. It left center. We've seen him to the stretch a few times, but not after the leadoff man reach. Let's see if this shakes things up a bit. Here comes Lane Thomas. Thomas swings at the first pit left field to back singles for Dubon and Thomas. Braves threatening here in the fifth. Back-to-back hits to start the fifth, and Atlanta will bring the tying run to the plate and the powerful Austin Riley. The 1-0 to Riley, and he shoots this one into shallow center field for out number one. Well, no matter what happens, you've got to find a way to score a run right here. And now the Braves are going to use a pinch hitter in Ronnie Tellez. A 3-0 pitch. Ball four. They are loaded. He didn't even swing the bat, and they're going to pinch hit for him, or rather a pinch run for him, I'd imagine. How about that for a day's work? And the first walk issued by Yamamoto. We're seeing a little blemish out there this inning. That's something you can have that kind of an impact on a game without even swinging the stick. So they are loaded with one down for Drake Baldwin. And who was the guy that homered off Yamamoto the last time we saw him? Drake Baldwin on the very first pitch of that game. This has got to be the moment right here. Opportunities, I wouldn't even say, have been few and far between. They have been nonexistent until right now. Drake with a ground ball out towards first base. Freeman has it. Steps on the bag. A run scores. An unassisted put out by Freeman, and the Braves are on the board. It's a 3-1 game with runners at second and third and two down for Acuna. Well, one of the running dialogues the last few days is how the Braves need a moment from Ronald Acuna. He hasn't had a big moment, not a chance to have a really big one right here. Acuna bounces one right side. Rojas over to his left from the grass. He slips as he throws, but he makes the play. And the Dodgers limit the Braves to one run there in the bottom of the fifth inning. Chris Sayles' night has come to an end. Dylan Dodd started game one opposite Tarek Schugle. Pitch to Andy Pajes. Pajes leads off the inning with a base hit up the middle. So Andy Pajes, two for his last two after he started the series, over his first eight. Swing and a miss, strike three. Just like against Tucker, Dodd goes to the high fastball and the Dodgers chase him. This is a lineup in a clubhouse mode that prides itself on being stubborn in the batter's box, stubborn within the zone, but they have been chasing quite a bit tonight. So back to Mookie Betts, who's two for three. One-one and a fly ball towards center, going back, drifting slowly. Michael Harris, edge of the warning track. He's got his eyes on it, and he makes the catch for the out. So a leadoff single is all the Dodgers muster up. We go to the bottom of the sixth inning. Bottom of the sixth about to begin. Part of the order coming up for Atlanta, Olsen, Albies, and Harris. Offensively on the ball, a call, strike three. He went upstairs and surprised everybody here. With a fastball up, you could tell Olsen really wanted to challenge it, and that's what happens when you lose a challenge early. You're now at the risk of really, really being sure. The 1-0 pitch, Albies. Flies the ball straightaway center. Pajes gets into position, 20 feet in front of the warning track. Only makes the catch two away. Two down here in the sixth inning. 3-1 Dodgers, bottom of the sixth. Gets it on the ground, a third. Kike shifted over as the shortstop, basically, and that is a tidy 1-2-3-6 for Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Freeman, run. Flied the center field, Harris running back toward the warning track, and he makes the catch, as Freeman has the ball die about 5-10 feet from a second home run. Harris, yeah, he made that look really casual, maybe trying to make Lee feel better, but that was a pretty deep fly ball. Look, it's a different Freddie Freeman than what we saw, really, in September. Two outs on four pitches for Dylan Lee. Two outs, nobody on top of the seventh. Will Smith, and he swings and misses right through the fastball, and Dylan Lee on nine pitches takes care of the Dodgers in order in the top of the seventh inning. Dodgers three, Braves one, into the bottom of the seventh inning. Meanwhile, Yamamoto out there for his seventh inning of work. DuPont to lead it off. Popped him up. First base side, Freddie Freeman. Fifth, drifting into foul territory. Couple steps onto the warning track. He reaches back, and he makes the catch. First out of the seventh. For Yamamoto, this is probably going to be his last inning. He's right at the pitch count of 90, but what a ballgame he has pitched. He has eight strikeouts, one walk. He's limited the Braves to four hits. Tipped into the glove, strike three. The ninth K for Yamamoto. Two gone in the seventh. Here in his third trip to the order, and mind you, this is after the bases were loaded there in the fifth inning. He's now retired seven in a row, and you'd think that with what he went through in the fifth inning, maybe he was starting to run out of fuel. Yeah. He's definitely not doing that. This trip through has been pretty impressive. Two down for Riley. He struck him out. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, masterful here again in the postseason. Caps his seventh strong inning with his 10th K. It's 3-1 Dodgers. We're on to the eighth in game three. What a night it has been for Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Top of the eighth. It is ball four low. Ohtani draws a leadoff walk here in the eighth. Suter wanted that pitch, but no challenge for him or Baldwins. Now Miguel Rojas, a 1-0. Rojas scalds it, but foul left field side. Rojas just swung it, and he's not right. He's going to be checked out. He was holding his lower back kind of limping a little bit. This is not good. Rojas has his left hand on his hip, and I think he's going to come out. I think Dave would be surprised if he doesn't. The way that he's going, and he's limping noticeably just going back to the dugout. And so Dave Roberts is going to call on Tommy Edmund to finish this plate appearance. It's a 1-1 count. Edmund right out of the dugout swings up the first pitch. Matt Olsen takes charge, and in between the plate and the mound makes the catch, one down. The issue with Rojas is his back. First time it happened on this plate. You can see here he goes into the hole right there, slips, and that's when he first felt it. Well, now it's Páez who's gone two for three. Like we were saying with Páez, he had been ice cold, and then got to the point where he needed to shoot or give up the gun, and then he's come through with a couple of singles in this game. Line drive out to a diving Riley from a knee to second for one. Ozzie to first, not in time. That would have been a dazzling double play. Sparkling defensive play by Riley. Diving to his left, pushing up on both knees, and with his knees under him, threw a strike to second base. So the top of the eighth is up to Kyle Tucker. And a pop-up foul ground third-base side. Riley with room. Halfway between the line and the wall makes the catch. Great job by Dodd, Lee, and Suter, keeping the Dodgers scoreless in the sixth, seventh, and eighth. Yamamoto is out of the game. That's good news across Braves country, but he's still leading three to one. Seven innings, a four-hit, one-run ball. He walked one, struck out 10. Tanner Scott on the pitch. It's 11 strikeouts for Dodger pitchers, just one walk. Now back to the top of the order to Drake Baldwin. Oh, one pitch and a bounce and a shortstop. Mookie Betts secures. Throws to first base and two down. Ronald Acuna Jr., two outs, nobody on in the eighth. Ball four low and in. Two-out walk keeps the door open. Only the second walk allowed by Dodger pitchers in this game. And you bring a potential time run. Crowd giving it everything they've got. Rising in support of Olsen. Got him swinging. Ate him up and in with a fastball at 99. And Tanner Scott puts up a zero in the eighth. All right, folks, hold on to your butts. Bottom of the ninth inning from the battery in Atlanta. L.A. three outs away from taking the lead in this NLDS. Flat ball towards right center field. That's on the way to the wall, and that's off the base of the wall. How's he digging for second? Throw out of right center off the mark. How's that for a start? A lead-off double here in the ninth inning. And that is exactly the start that Atlanta was looking for in the ninth. So he's in scoring position. Time run at the plate with Michael Harris in second. Hit on the ground to second. Aurora Edmond casually throws to first. A little wide, and Freddie Freeman saves Edmond. Lazzio to third base. Right to the ground now. One down for DuPont. Faysette makes it a one-run game. DuPont swings. Flat ball right field. Tucker running toward the line. He's got a read. Makes the catch in foul ground. Tagging from third. No. Albies will stay. As the throw came in from Tucker, a one-hopper to the plate. You know, it'd be nice to have the run, but the run really means nothing. They've got to be able to tie it, and they're going to go to the bench right here. Instead of Wayne Thomas, a right-handed batter, it's the longtime San Francisco giant Mike Dostromski. Dostromski swings. Hits it on the ground. Left side of the infield. Betts comes in. Picks it up off the ground. Throws across his body. Freeman. That's a win for Atlanta. Oh, my goodness. What a play to end it. Mookie Betts on a slow roller to short. Picked it up off the dirt. Threw across his body. Freddie Freeman had to stretch and pick it, and number five did the job. What a play by Betts. What a pick by Freeman, and what a win in game three of this series.