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Two home runs by Eddie Rosario lead the Braves to a 9-2 win over the Dodgers and lead 3-1 in the NL Championship Series | Other Sports | sports

Game 5 will be played this Thursday at the Dodgers’ field. Neither team has announced their starting pitchers.

The ranger Puerto Rican Eddie Rosario hit a couple of home runs and finished with four RBIs and led the Atlanta Braves to a 9-2 beating win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, leaving them only one win to get their pass to the World Series.

Victory allows the Braves to get 3-1 advantage in the series of National League Championship that is played to the best of seven, reason why one more triumph and they will obtain the right to play the Classic of Autumn.

Game 5 will be played this Thursday at the Dodgers’ field. Neither team has announced their starting pitchers.

The party puts the Braves one win away from their first pennant in 22 years and the defending World Series champs face elimination.

Last year, the Dodgers lost 0-2 and 1-3 to the Braves in the National League Championship Series before coming back to win three straight games and claim the pennant at a neutral site in Arlington, Texas.

Rosario (2) started the punishment against the Dodgers in the second inning, connecting from four corners against the star pitcher of the Los Angeles ninth, the southpaw. Mexican Julio Urías.

The boricua made the ball fly 115 meters over the fence between left and center fields, with no runners ahead.

In the ninth inning sealed with a flourish hitting another full-back homer, this time with two men in circulation.

Rosario’s second home run flew 112 meters over the right-field fence, sending the register to first base. Freddie Freeman and the second baseman from Curaçao Ozzie Albies.

Rosario, who hit almost perfect going 5-for-4, and who drove in four runs and scored three, homered against the pitches of the cerrador Tony Gonsolin.

In the third episode the Ranger Joc Pederson he singled and drove to the plate to Rosario, who had his second game of the series with at least four hits.

The Puerto Rican became the first player to have two games of four hits in a League Championship Series.

Rosario drove in four runs and finished within a double of completing the batting cycle.

The Puerto Rican slugger hit home run in the second episode, triple in the third, single in the fifth and three-run homer in the ninth.

The ranger has hit every game this postseason, racking up 14 hits thus far, and has struck out only once.

Albies hit once on four occasions with the baton and scored twice, once with Rosario’s home run, and once in the fifth inning with a sacrifice fly from the guardabosques Adam Duvall.

On the mound, the triumph was credited to him by the relevo Drew Smyly (1-0) in three and a third episodes.

All four home runs for the Braves tied a postseason franchise record.

Rosario connected in the second episode and Adam Duvall followed with another home run, marking the first time the Braves hit consecutive home runs in the postseason since Oct. 3, 2002 against the San Francisco Giants in the Second Party of the National League Division Series.

For the Dodgers the pinch hitter, the Dominican Albert Pujols, it was perfect when hitting 1 of 1.

The defeat was carried by Urías (0-1) in five episodes when he received a punishment of eight hits, three homers and five runs, gave away two walks and struck out three rival batters, confirming that he has entered his worst playing streak so far in competition.

The 20-game winner, who allowed three home runs in just 2 2/3 innings, has his second time that allows so much punishment in his career; the first time was in his second major league game in 2016.

Uriah started with two days off, having thrown a relief inning in Game 2 at Atlanta. (D)

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