Dodgers roll past Mets in Game 4, take 3-1 lead in NLCS - ESPN

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer and scored four times, Mookie Betts also went deep and drove in four runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the New York Mets 10-2 on Thursday night for a 3-1 lead in their lopsided National League Championship Series.

Betts had a two-run homer and a two-run double among his four hits. Max Muncy extended his streak of reaching base safely to 12 plate appearances, a postseason record, and the Dodgers moved within one win of their 25th pennant — most in NL history.

The Dodgers won Game 1 9-0 and Game 3 8-0 in Game 3. They're just the second team to have three wins by eight or more runs in a single postseason series. The New York Yankees did it in the 1960 World Series, which they lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Bill Mazeroski's walk-off home run in the ninth inning of Game 7.

Game 5 of this series is Friday at Citi Field, with Jack Flaherty expected to pitch for Los Angeles with an opportunity to put his hometown team in the World Series.

New York had not committed to a scheduled starter, but it was likely to be Kodai Senga or David Peterson.

Surprise cleanup batter Tommy Edman had three RBIs, including a tiebreaking double off starter Jose Quintana with two outs in the third inning. Kiké Hernández followed with an RBI single that made it 3-1.

«It's ridiculous,» Edman told Fox after the game when asked about the Dodgers offense. «We have so much talent. But not only that, we have a bunch of guys who work hard. Great resilience. We've had a few lulls — relative lulls by our standard — throughout the second half of the year, but they don't last very long. We just come back fighting regardless of how we're feeling.»

Betts broke open the game, greeting reliever Jose Buttó with a