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San Francisco Giants' Logan Webb shuts down Dodgers in Game 1 victory

SAN FRANCISCO -- Logan Webb pitched one of baseball's most epic postseason games in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, and he did it by forcing the Dodgers to turn into their own worst enemies.

Webb was masterful in his first career postseason start, mixing a diving changeup and a slider that ran away from right-handed hitters and then ran just a little bit more. But perhaps Webb's biggest advantage was his ability to use the Dodgers' aggressiveness and uncharacteristic eagerness to stray out of the strike zone against them.

"For me it wasn't the stuff necessarily, because we've seen that essentially all season long," Giants manager Gabe Kapler said after Friday's 4-0 victory.