With a 4-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field, the Dodgers clinched the division title in dominant fashion, locking it up with 21 games to go, one night after officially becoming the first team in baseball to secure a playoff spot.
The Dodgers have captured the NL West title for the ninth time in 10 seasons, a feat that seems easy when it’s anything but.No scoreboard watching or pivotal division matchups down the stretch.
Since then, a first-place finish felt inevitable, with the bigger question being how soon the Dodgers would clinch. dazzled over seven scoreless innings, giving up just two hits and one walk while striking out five in his fourth start in a division-clinching game. “Thank you guys for being so good,” Kershaw told the team in the clubhouse after the game, commencing a champagne and beer shower. “It’s really fun to be on this team.”
“Obviously, we had expectations,” Freeman said. “But you take the expectations and you run with them. That’s exactly what this team did.”
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