LOS ANGELES -- 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, but he didn't take it off.

The bright yellow glove remained on Sasaki's hand while he watched the bottom of the ninth from the dugout. Phillies reliever Matt Strahm countered with a shutdown frame, and then Sasaki was back to work, out for his third inning of relief to preserve a tie ballgame in extras.

There's locked in, and then there's locked in .

Sasaki twirled three perfect frames before the Dodgers walked off the Phillies, 2-1 , in a wild 11th inning to advance to their second straight NL Championship Series on Thursday n

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