Dodgers' Jack Flaherty flops in 2nd NLCS outing vs. Mets, who force Game 6 in Los Angeles
NEW YORK (AP) — Instead of pitching his hometown team into the World Series, Jack Flaherty sent the NL Championship Series back to California.Dominant in the opener, Flaherty flopped in Game 5.Pete Alonso hit a three-run homer in the first and the Mets beat up Flaherty for five runs in the third inning of a 12-6 victory Friday night that pulled New York to 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.“First time a while I kind of let the game speed up on me a little bit and didn't make the adjustment in-game that normally get made,” Flaherty said.Flaherty's fastball velocity dropped 1.9 mph from from his season average and the spin rate was down markedly on his four-seam fastball and his knuckle-curve.“He wasn’t sharp, clearly,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “He’s been fighting something. He’s been under the weather a little bit. So I don’t know if that bled into the stuff, the velocity. I’m not sure.” A teammate of Max Fried and Lucas Giolito at Harvard-Westlake, Flaherty was dealt to the Dodgers by Detroit on July…
19 Oct 02:20 · iNFOnews.ca