Dodgers Starting Pitchers Set MLB Record For Lowest ERA In Championship Series

Snell started off the Dodgers in Game 1 with eight shutout innings, allowing only one hit and striking out 10. Yamamoto followed the next day with nine innings of one-run ball, adding seven strikeouts.

Back at Dodger Stadium for Game 3, Glasnow gave them 5.2 innings while allowing just one run and striking out eight. Then Shohei Ohtani had the greatest game in MLB history and tossed six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts, while also hitting three home runs.

In total, the starters only allowed nine hits and seven walks across the four games, giving them a 0.56 WHIP for the series. They also tallied 35 strikeouts as a group, accounting for an 11.2 strikeouts per nine.

“Since the beginning of time in baseball, when you have dominant pitching on the mound throwing 98 to 100, every guy and tremendous off-speed pitches, the command they showed,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said when asked if he viewed the NLCS loss as an offensive issue or credited it to the Dodgers’ pitching staff.

“Will Smith deserves a ton of credit. Yeah, I said it was dominant pitching. If you want to say our offense — I think most offenses would struggle.”

Dodgers pitching staff made MLB history

The Dodgers allowed just one run in four consecutive playoff games between Game 4 of the NL Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies and Games 3 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers. During that stretch, they also allowed no more than four hits in any of the games.

That made the Dodgers the first team in MLB postseason history to pitch four consecutive games while allowing one or fewer runs along with four or fewer hits.

In addition, the Dodgers pitching staff has walked fewer than five batters each of those games, while striking out seven or more. No pitching staff in history, during the regular season or postseason, has previously had a stretch of four straight games achieving all those marks.