St. Louis Cardinals vs. LA Dodgers Live Stream: Watch Online Streaming NLDS Playoff Game

The LA Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals are playing live on the NLDS MLB playoff schedule on Friday afternoon and the game is live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles as Game 1 gets started with Clayton Kershaw and Adam Wainwright on the mound and this is the first matchup for the teams in the National League Division Series in the postseason.

This is the best pitching matchup of the Division Series and the Cardinals come in after holding off the Pirates in the NL Central division. The Dodgers were one of the best teams in baseball and they come in with Clayton Kershaw on the mound after his historic season. The Dodgers have been one of the most consistent teams in the league and they won the NL west this season over the Giants. The Cardinals have Wainwright going and he likely will finish second once again to Kershaw in the Cy Young voting.

This is the first time in a while that 20 game winners are facing off with Kershaw and Wainwright, both teams are swinging the bats well and that could help decide the matchup. The Dodgers had one of the best offenses in the league last season and now they face off against the Cards, who have struggled overall to score runs but they came on during the end run of the season.

This is one of the best matchups that the NL has seen in a long time and it puts two teams with deep histories against each other in the playoffs. The Giants and the Nationals arte playing on the other side of the bracket and the winner of this series will face off against the winner of that to see who makes it to the World Series. The Dodgers haven't been there for a while and the Washington franchise (not Montreal but the city) has not won a series since 1924. The Cardinals were there last year and they are itching to get back after losing to the Red Sox.

The Cardinals and the Dodgers have some recent playoff history, as they played last season and it was Kershaw on the mound in game 6 who could not get it done. Kershaw was rocked in that game and the Cardinals went on to the World Series where they lost to the Red Sox. The Cards are the champs from the NL Central and they held off the Pirates and that was for good reason, as the Giants won big on the road at Pitt and now they are through and the Pirates are home for the playoffs.

The Dodgers have the offense and the pitching to go far in the playoffs. The team has been as good as anyone down the stretch and while they have some chemistry issues, it has helped more than hurt them over the season and now they are into the postseason and the fire will still be burning.

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