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🗞️ Story file #175

Dodgers defeat Braves 3-1 in NLDS game 3

Oct 7, 12 AM ET to Oct 7, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 7, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
  2. Oct 7, 4 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 7, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 7, 3 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 12 AM to Oct 7, 7 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 6 PMOct 76 AM12 PM6 PMNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Dodgers shake up lineup for Chris Sale showdown in NLDS Game 3New York Post, Oct 7, 1:00 AM ET: Kiké Hernández’s October magic strikes again as Dodgers take crucial NLDS winNew York Post, Oct 7, 9:00 AM ET: Kiké Hernández is closing in on ‘Mr. October’ after latest historic Dodgers momentNew York Post, Oct 7, 4:00 PM ET: Dodgers move slumping two-way star in lineup again for NLDS Game 4: ‘He’s going to come to life’Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 6, 10:00 PM ET: Dodgers beat Braves on Kiké Hernández and Freddie Freeman homers, take 2-1 NLDS leadLos Angeles Times, Oct 7, 2:00 AM ET: ‘He shows up when you need him.’ Kiké Hernández helps lift Dodgers to 2-1 NLDS leadChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 11:00 PM ET: Yoshinobu Yamamoto is dominant again as the Los Angeles Dodgers win 3-1 over the Atlanta Braves in the NLDSFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 6, 11:00 PM ET: Dodgers hit two homers off Chris Sale to steal game three of NLDS behind Yoshinobu YamamotoIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 7, 12:00 AM ET: Yamamoto strikes out 10 as Dodgers beat Braves 3-1 for 2-1 NLDS leadNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 7, 12:00 AM ET: Yamamoto dominant as Dodgers ride homers from Hernández, Freeman to win over BravesAPAPAP, Oct 7, 4:00 AM ET: Yamamoto is dominant again as Dodgers ride homers from Hernández and Freeman to 3-1 win over Braves📺 TVFox News, 5:07 AM ET: NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES. FREEMAN HOMERS IN RETURN TO ATLANTA AS DODGERS WIN 3-1Fox News, 5:07 AM ET: NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES. GAME 4 OF ATL-LAD & SD-MIL TONIGHT ON ESPNMSNOW, 5:26 AM ET: DODGERS BEAT BRAVES 3-1 IN GAME 3, TAKE SERIESMSNOW, 6:54 AM ET: DODGERS BEAT BRAVES 3-1 IN GAME 3, TAKE SERIES
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “He shows up when you need him.” “Mr. October” “He's going to come to life”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 dodgers ride homers

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Dodgers beat Braves on Kiké Hernández and Freddie Freeman homers, take 2-1 NLDS lead” → “‘He shows up when you need him.’ Kiké Hernández helps lift Dodgers to 2-1 NLDS lead”
  • New York Post (4 wordings): “Dodgers shake up lineup for Chris Sale showdown in NLDS Game 3” → “Dodgers move slumping two-way star in lineup again for NLDS Game 4: ‘He’s going to come to life’”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News78 s
MSNOW56 s
  • DODGERS BEAT BRAVES 3-1 IN GAME 3, TAKE SERIES MSNOW, 56 s
  • NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES. FREEMAN HOMERS IN RETURN TO ATLANTA AS DODGERS WIN 3-1 Fox News, 39 s
  • NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES. GAME 4 OF ATL-LAD & SD-MIL TONIGHT ON ESPN Fox News, 39 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Los Angeles Dodgers Atlanta Braves Yoshinobu Yamamoto Chris Sale Kiké Hernández Freddie Freeman

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Dodgers dominate Braves in NLDS

  1. Dodgers defeat Braves in NLDS Game 1

    Oct 3, 11 PM ET

  2. Dodgers defeat Braves 3-1 in NLDS game 3 (this story)

    Oct 7, 12 AM ET