>> well, for the news of the nation and world, join lester holt for nbc nightly news on nbc bay area. >> dodgers make several changes as we move to the last half of the eighth inning. can with the giants out in front 1-0. crawford will be facing the pitcher joe kechl. 36th game that kelly has come in. >> high velocity fastball. four good pitches. curveball, slider, changeup. former start and he's got all the tools.

for the most part you're going to see fastballs, slider, cutter. >> also, cody bellinger's gone in to play first base. . j. pollock stays in to play left field, and moving over to center from left field is chris taylor. from center field to first is bellinger. brandon crawford has singled, flied out. a great catch made by bellinger and he was grounded into a force play. fastball at 96, too high. tie row estrada is on deck for the giants. jake mcgee, himself a former dodger, warming up in the giants

bullpen. dodgers will have some of their very best hitters up in the ninth. 1-0, giants. crawford left center field. hit well. that one is way back there off the calm. taylor comes up throwing. crawford with a double. >> we talked earlier about how at batting practice today crawford was thinking about the left side of the field, his first two rounds of bp, he went for the left side of second base almost -- with all the swings here he gets a hanging breaking ball. look at the head stay down. almost like he's trying to hit this through the gap at left center. almost puchs it out of here. but just a strong front shouldered approach. really could have been position. take advantage of the hand.

>> 20 points out of the year, crawford jumped off his bat at 102 miles per hour. >> be interesting to see what they do here. it is a bunt situation. >> estrada, one for three, hits a double to right in the fourth. pops it up right back to the pitcher. so just a wasted at-bat. now yastrzemski with the pitcher's spot.

tommy la stella has come out on deck. one wall and no strikes. by the way, that double by crawford -- there's la stella -- 337 feet, it would have been out of seven ballparks. so he hit it pretty well. >> that's a stat, though, that drives hitters crazy. >> and he took it. >> too low. good take right there. there's an opportunity for yastrzemski to pick up kapler.

kapler's probably shaking his head. well, a base hit here, it's all forgotten. >> see cody bellinger, first baseman, he's back to the edge of the outfield grass and right on the first base line for yastrzemski. crawford at second, one out. 1-0, giants. he changed up on him. >> good 2-0 pitch. he just not thinking you're going to see that when a guy throws in the high 90s. estrada thinking about that fastball. always when you try to bunt and you don't get it down, you're thinking that's the best fastball i've seen to hit in two weeks. >> the damld have done if he'd swung away at it. 2-1.

yaz into medium right center. mookie betts just at the last moment got out of the way. chris taylor. -- way of chris taylor. and would have crawford had been at third on that fly ball. >> scores easily. mark prior the pitching coach out to the mound as la stella, the pinch hitter comes up. the dodgers always send the pitching coach out every time as a pinch hitter. >> well, he's giving joe kelly the opportunity to decide who he pitches to. if he decides to go after toomey la stella, i doubt he's going to give him a whole lot to hit. not the end of the world. they know that darrin ruf is not that well.

when a guy's hot, doesn't always matter. >> la stella's had stiffness in his side. kind of put him on the shelf this for a while. he last played this past sunday in atlanta. >> above average, across the board out there. >> ball and a strike, on the outside. was that a changeup? 87 miles an hour. >> it's been a good pitch for him. >> la stella facing joe kelly.

>> crawford's going to get a two-out jump. seager playing right behind second base. la stella. >> packed it up. >> and it's 0-2. >> changeup-changeup but in watching tommy la stella hit this year, it's like his at-bats don't even start until he gets two strikes. just a pure grinder. >> two strikes, the count. 99 but well off the hard to be guy throws 99 across the plate.

it just is mind blowing. >> crawford ready to take off. at the crack of the bat with two down in the eighth. would like to get that added run, leading 1-0 right now. in the last of the eighth. justin turner gets it and throws him out. a lead-off double and a runner stranded. betts, justin turner, corey seger coming up against jake mcgee.

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beast. mcgee, 59th time he's coming in. 29 saves on the year. and always seems that it just has to be that way. when you're a closer, so often in the bottom of the ninth inning or in the ninth inning, always seems to feature the heart of the beast. he's going to take on three guys with power. >> so mcgee against mookie betts. betts is 0-3. fouled out to first, flied out to right center and flied out to left center. here we go. he pitched in yesterday afternoon's game, 16 pitches, after not having pitched in eight days. quickly a called strike on the inside. it's 0-1.

it's a little bit low, just barely, at 96 miles an hour. >> the straight-away defense the giants are putting on to defend against mookie betts. see yastrzemski in right field. but everybody else pretty straight-away. everybody else pretty straight. >> sharply to bryant. off the bag and belt got the foot back on the bag just in time. >> seen a couple of wide throws from bryant the last week or two. and all the time in the world, looks at it, double, triple

skip, and unloads. and brandon belt had to come back and rock those size 15s to get the tag. but it's nice to have a 6'4" first baseman with a long arm. a big foot to hang on. >> not justin turner. he has walked, struck out, and grounded into a double play to end the sixth inning. he's been showing that slider a little more often the last few weeks. not to say that he throws it often. >> it's a surprise, but you can steal strikes with it. nobody's thinking slider. everybody's thinking fastball. >> base hit to left field. ruf hustling over, turning up with a whole lot of speed. he'll hold with a single but to

left field with one out and now seger. dave roberts checking his book there. >> not a lot of success lyft against mcgee. one for 12. that one hit, a double. >> seager has had two hits tonight. one was the swinging bunt and 35-foot single in the seventh inning. crawford, estrada and belt are arrayed between second and first. the overshift. bryant still on the third base side, maybe 35 feet off the line, even with the bag. left field. that's going to be a base hit. ruf t cuts it off and he throws in toward third which will allow

seager to go to second. >> that's a mistake. they move ruf out of straight-away positioning to protect the line and an opposite-field bullet and ruf just could not get back over to make a play on it. he does well to cut this off on a hop. this ball guys by him, turner has a chance to score. giants bring the infield in. >> for the second time in the game that the dodgers have gotten a runner as far as third base.

will smith, 0-3. high and foul. belt going down the line but this one will stay out of play. the wind has a tendency to blow a ball like that back toward the field, but this one was bell back. strike one. will smith 0-3 with two strikeouts in his limited experience against his old batting made. >> a strikeout situation now for mcgee. >> to 2nd. estrada to the plate. rundown. and the runner who is out is the trailing runner. now he walks off the bag and

posey may have tagged the wrong guy. he was already out. and now gabe kapler wants to come out and make sure that he knows that nester sayhog called that correctly. he did not call turner, who was on the bag. then he call out seager, the guy who had just come to third when buster, who had tagged them both, so then seager left the bag, hasn't been called out. perfectly placed. >> running back to the base. he touches turner -- >> yeah, he did touch them both. >> you see he called the back runner out. >> turner left the bag and buster kind of chased the wrong guy. >> that's what buster's thinking. >> two down. wow.

and the main thing there was will state stayed at first. and turner is still at third. seager, the one who got tagged out. second baseman with the catcher for the put-out. and here is chris taylor. who is 0-3. taylor, one hit in sixth career at-bats against mcgee and four strikeouts in those six. two down, ninth inning. ball one. you got the left-handed hitter, bellinger on deck. >> he going right in on the hands. one thing about taylor, he will lean into one and take the hit

and hit by pitch. it's been a good zone tonight. >> 39,338, the paying crowd. everybody standing. a bloop. and that's in there to tie the blaim game. he did not hit it hard but he hit it where he was. the dodgers have tied the game

in the ninth inning. now albert pujols is going to come up. >> tried to make a good pitch. thing about tatum, he swings hard. when he connects around the hands, if he's got enough strength to hit out there to the infielders. >> now smith at second. taylor at first. here's albert pujols on his way to the baseball hall of fame. and he has been a very valuable player for the dodgers against left-handed pitching. 1-1.

pujols has hit over 300 against lefties. >> one of the hardest things to do in this sport is if our a closer and you give up a tied run and you try to get back in the game, knowing you've got to reconnect. you've got to get back on and forget about it. because you got to get the next guy out. >> the foul and it's strike two. kenley jackson getting readied in the dodger bullpen and the giants had jay jackson, the right-hander warming up in their bullpen. in is the dormg closer. at the top of their batting order coming up, the giants are. in the last of the ninth.

rogers had three hits in the inning and a run. pujols backs away. time granted. will smith, the possible go-ahead run, he's at second. chris taylor at first. 0-2, the count to pujols. belt knocks it down. under hands to mcgee in time. the 41-year-old pujols just not very fast.

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stay alive. it is 1-1, last of the ninth. if the giants do the same, the ballgame will be over. can the gents end from the dodger bullpen. >> 56th game he's come into. very good. 68 strikeouts in 55 and add third. you look at how many hits has he given up in 55 and a third. he's given up 32 hits, three of which left the ballpark. he doesn't give up home runs very often. still got the power cutter. and still can throw in the high 90s if he's just throwing a fastball. he's also got a curveball, a slider he'll throw, all from a high three-quarter release. >> albert pujols stays in to

play first base. he had been the pinch hitter for bellinger. darren ruf will lead off for the giants. right now kenley jansen is in there to try and save the town for the dodgers. ruf has singled to right, walked, hit a come-backer and got a base hit his last time. he's had two hits and been on base three times. belt on deck. >> there's that curveball. it's a pitch which you steal pitches with and even ride it. we've seen him close out games with it when he hasn't been able to control the cutter. it's a straight down is 12-6 drop because of the quarter

release he has. >> fastball, way off the inside. 2-0. >> dodgers know ruf's been hot. >> belt on deck. been hot not just again left-handers, which you kind of expect that, but he's been very successful against right-handers here the last several weeks. 3-0. >> not close. three big misses from jansen.

>> three balls, no strikes. to darren ruf. and it's a four-pitch walk. >> four-pitch gift. and just like that, a lead-off runner for free. >> brandon belt has had one hit. a single to right center that helped set up the giants run back in the third inning. he's also struck out twice and fouled out once. the dodgers going into the overshift. nobody at shortstop.

1-1 last of the ninth. ball one. >> again, not close. and that's the look of concern. >> bob guerin, the bench coach there with the pitching coach behind the manager dave roberts. kris bryant is on deck.