Thursday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to the NLCS with an improbable 11-inning win over the Philadelphia Phillies ( LA 2, PHI 1 ). Righty Orion Kerkering , in a moment of panic, airmailed a throw to the plate when he had likely had time to get the force out at first base and end the inning. It is the second playoff series-ending walk-off error in baseball history.

"I won't say the pressure got to me, I just thought it was a faster throw (home) than trying to crossbody it to (first). Just a horseshit throw," Kerkering said .

Four innings before Kerkering's error, the Dodgers rallied to tie Game 4 when closer Jhoan Duran walked Mookie Betts with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh. That immediately followed a Shohei Ohtani intentional

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