When the Los Angeles Dodgers took the field against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 of the NLDS, they needed something special to silence the rowdy crowd at American Family Field and really set the tone for the seven-game series.

Early on, it became clear the “something special” was the play of Blake Snell , who entered the game like a man possessed, throwing strike after strike while barely showing any emotion, mowing down batters in order, inning after inning, on the way to one of the most dominant pitching efforts fans have seen in a very long time.

How long, you may ask, has it been since a pitcher maintained a perfect game through six games while facing the minimum? Well, according to OptaSTATS, one has to go all the way back to 1956, when Don Larsen accomplished the feat aga

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