by Cary Osborne
Part of the city that never sleeps went silent in the sixth inning on Thursday — Citi Field.
Mookie Betts slugged a home run over the wall in left field to give the Dodgers a five-run lead in the sixth inning of Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.
And there was a stunned hush. The Dodgers later added two more to that lead, clearing out the stadium like it had a curfew.
For the third time this postseason, the Dodger offense pounded Mets pitching and Dodger pitching excelled at preventing runs.
The Dodgers beat the Mets 10–2, and are now one win away from reaching the World Series. They lead the NLCS 3–1.
The bullpen, one night after earning the final 15 outs of the game and allowing no runs, earned 14 outs and surrendered nothing again.
The Mets were 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position, including missing on three opportunities with the bases loaded in the sixth inning against Dodger relievers Evan Phillips and Blake Treinen.
While Dodger pitching continued to quiet rallies — and the crowd at Citi Field — the Dodger bats created first heavy jeering and later silence.
Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a home run off Mets starter José Quintana to the displeasure of the Mets fans. Betts quieted the stadium with his two-run homer in the sixth.
It was an incredible on-base night for Ohtani, Betts and Max Muncy.
Betts tied his postseason career-high with four hits and drove in a postseason career-high four runs. He went 4-for-6 with a home run, double and three runs scored.
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Muncy reached base his first four times with three walks and a single. His seventh-inning single lifted his on-base streak to 12 straight plate appearances. It is a Major League record for most consecutive times reaching base safely in a single postseason series. It tied Reggie Jackson’s overall postseason record of reaching base safely 12 straight times in the postseason. Jackson went 12 straight from 1977–1978.
Ohtani reached base four times with the home run and three walks.
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The trio combined to go 6-for-11 with six walks, seven runs and five RBI.
Add Tommy Edman and Kiké Hernández and it was a total of 16 times reaching base and nine RBI in 27 plate appearances for the quintet.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto went 4 1/3 innings and allowed two runs.
He struck out eight batters and tied a career-high with 16 swings and miss.
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