Dodgers' Blake Snell joins perfect game Don Larsen in spotless MLB playoff history originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Don Larsen's 1956 World Series perfect game for the New York Yankees is the stuff of legend.

Home-plate umpire Alan Porter was almost perfect behind the plate for 15 innings of dramatic postseason baseball.

Roki Sasaki tracked the path of the ball as it traveled through the evening sky, a high popup that was snagged by third baseman Kiké Hernández for the final out of the top of the ninth. He clapped into his mitt as he walked off the mound,

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The starting pitcher spent his entire 13-year career with the San Francisco Giants, racking up 1,694 strikeouts in 2,805 ⅔ innings en route to 104 wins. He also owns one of the 24 perfect games in Major League Baseball history, facing the minimum 27 batters in a historic performance against the Houston Astros in 2012.

When Blake Snell is on, his teammates tend to describe him as such: He knows what he wants to do on the mound, and he makes it happen.

Alas, the ball was never caught, as it grazed the wall between Frelick bobbles, making it a force play at home. And somehow, the Brewers made 8-6-2 from about 400 feet away a reality, Hernández sliding in just late as William Contreras recognized the situation and stretched like a first baseman to ensure the out.

No team has repeated as World Series Champions since the New York Yankees won three titles in a row from 1998 to 2000. However, as the Los Angeles Dodgers take a 2-0 NLCS lead over the Milwaukee Brewers back to Dodger Stadium for Games 3-5,

Tarik Skubal is starting Game 5 of the ALDS for the Tigers, just like he did a year ago. "I'll let you guys create the narrative," he said. "I'm gonna just do what I do best, and that's play baseball." pic.twitter.com/v3MndLmekz

The Los Angeles Dodgers took Game 2 from the Milwaukee Brewers on the back of a dominant complete game from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.