WILD CARD WALK-OFF! Chris Taylor homers to send the Dodgers to the NLDS!

cardinals scored in the first inning and we are stuck at one with alex reyes on the pitch for saint louis with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning historic first half for reyes recorded to save and each of his 24 career save opportunities dating back to 2016 passing la troy hawkins to establish a new major league record became an all-star it was a fast burn and it was a quick fade as well still counted on in big moments but lost that closer's role in early september bellinger draws a key walk the one thing about bringing reyes here in here the writing ready match matchup and taking mcfarland out it allows bellinger a better jump and maybe to attempt another stolen base we saw him steal one in the seventh inning chris taylor a struggling hitter his second at-bat he came in to play left field taylor popped up to first base his last time up which was his first time up reyes pitched in a couple of games last year in the wild card series san diego beat the cardinals gave up an earned run in three innings and here he is again swinging a miss got taylor fighting on that first pitch slider reyes has electric stuff there's a reason he emerged as a closer and he'll be back in that role possibly as early as next year right now trying to get the cardinals to the 10th dodgers trying to walk it off and go to san francisco taylor takes a ball dave roberts has used six bench players thus far he's got mookie bet to the top of the order due next runner goes bellinger and yadi emelina cannot get a grip it's a stolen base for bellinger two steals against the great molina good call ron the matchup favors the cardinals at the plate but not keeping a runner at first and bellinger swipes it short hopped by molina and the transfer the ball runs up his fingers and he can't control it big jump by bellinger and now two stolen bases in this game what a game he's had he's had a hit a walk two walks two steals and there he is carrying the winning run in the ninth inning [Applause] two balls and a strike to count on taylor reyes fires swinging a drive deep left field this is way back welcome off chris taylor [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] chris taylor with the moment of his life and he's had some big moments a walk-off home run his sixth career postseason homer and taylor a struggling hitter delivers in the clutch he didn't start in this game brian because he was eight for his last 72 he comes on as a defensive replacement and gets the biggest hit of his life [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a brushing ending for the cardinals and a memorable walk-off moment for the dodgers max scherzer with his former teammates juan soto the dodgers and the giants will meet for the first time in post-season history starting friday night at oracle park in san francisco as chris taylor delivers the fourth walk-off home run in dodger postseason history reyes throws a lot of breaking balls he hangs this one and taylor jumps all over it [Music] big leg kick catches it out front and tyler o'neill the left fielder knew it right away he didn't even really run after it as it's 10 rows back euphoria for the dodgers both teams looking for a big hit the cardinals couldn't get it all for 11 of the runners in scoring position taylor finally gets the gamer into the line for saint louis a valiant effort a 17-game winning streak franchise record but it all ends on a chris taylor two-run walk-off home run you

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Length: 7min 2sec (422 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021