MLB Playoffs: Francisco Lindor of the Mets challenges the Dodgers all-time record

In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers scored a run in the first inning and another in the second before ultimately losing 5-2 to the Baltimore Orioles. The Dodgers did not score another run in the Series and lost to the Orioles in a four-game sweep.

For 58 years, the Orioles' 33 consecutive scoreless innings stood as a postseason record. The record now happens to be shared by Baltimore and Los Angeles after the Dodgers posted an identical streak of 33 innings in Game 2 of the NLCS against the New York Mets on Monday completed.

After eight pitches, the Orioles' share of history was assured. Francisco Lindor opened the game with a home run off Dodgers pitcher Ryan Brasier and capped a great at-bat with a left-handed home run over the short fence in right field at Dodger Stadium.

It was the sixth leadoff home run of Lindor's career and the first by a Mets player since Curtis Granderson.

The Orioles needed four pitchers to put together their streak, in an era when complete postseason games were not uncommon. The Dodgers needed 13.

They played a bullpen game in Game 4 of the NLDS and defeated the Padres 8-0. Eight different pitchers combined to limit San Diego to zero runs, two walks, eight strikeouts and seven hits over 146 total pitches.

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In Game 5 of the NLDS, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched five scoreless innings before running the ball out of the bullpen. The series continued with a 2-0 win in Los Angeles.

On Sunday, in Game 1 of the NLCS, Dodgers starting pitcher Jack Flaherty maintained the momentum through seven scoreless innings. The right-hander allowed just two hits, two walks and six strikeouts in 98 pitches.

Dodgers pitcher Ben Casparius, who threw a scoreless ninth inning to set the National League record for scoreless innings in a postseason, said he was not aware of the record until after the game.

“I’m honestly glad it was after the game and not before,” he said Monday.

Veteran pitcher Daniel Hudson said he also wasn't aware of the record until recently.

“We obviously knew the last six innings of Game 3 were scoreless, and then we pitched back-to-back shutouts,” Hudson said. “Obviously the scoreless innings series was on everyone’s lips. But I didn't know there was a record for it until yesterday. So to throw nine more goose eggs (Sunday), that was pretty cool.”

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