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LOS ANGELES -- Rich Hill never strayed from his mindset of pitching in the moment, even when he was far from the major leagues playing independent ball with the Long Island Ducks.Convinced there would be another opportunity to get back to the big leagues, he focused on executing pitches without worrying about his current circumstances.Fourteen months later, Hill allowed two hits over six innings to beat Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs 6-0 Tuesday, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 NL Championship Series lead.Its the biggest game of my career, Hill said. Its just putting in the work, putting in the time, having a routine, persevere, all those things that you can say to sum up some kind of endurance or resiliency. For me, thats all Ive ever known is just work.Rookie Corey Seager had three hits, including a go-ahead single in the third, and Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run homer in the fourth.After winning a big league-high 103 games during the regular season and sparking belief they could win the World Series for the first time since 1908, the Cubs have been shut out in consecutive games for the first time since May 2014, managing just six hits -- five of them singles. Their 18 straight scoreless innings mark the longest postseason drought in franchise history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.More than anything, I think we need to get a couple runs and hits and runs early to try to get that kind of feeling back, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said, because, obviously, when youre not scoring any runs, it makes it even more difficult in the dugout.Hill, who made two starts in the independent Atlantic League in August 2015 before signing a minor league deal with Boston , struck out six and walked two. Joe Blanton, Grant Dayton and Kenley Jansen finished. Playing their 200th postseason game, the Dodgers posted consecutive shutouts for the first time.Julio Urias starts Game 4 for the Dodgers on Wednesday and at 20 years, 68 days will become the youngest starting pitcher in postseason history. John Lackey starts for the Cubs.Hes not scared of the moment, Seager said of Urias. Hes not scared of anything.Hill was acquired from Oakland along with Josh Reddick at the Aug. 1 trade deadline. The 36-year-old left-hander struggled with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand that landed him on the disabled list from mid-July to late August. The blister still bothered him in the final weeks of the regular season, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after seven perfect innings against Miami on Sept. 10, saying the team had to keep its focus on bigger goals in October.Hill was strong from the start against one of his former teams, retiring the side to open the game and later eight in a row. Hes given up one run in 23 innings over four home starts for the Dodgers, lowering his ERA to 0.39.When hes got that attitude out there, you can tell, Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. Thats when you know hes rolling, that his pitches are working, and hes doing what he wants to do out there.Seagers go-ahead single ended an 0-for-15 slide with runners in scoring position in postseason play.Grandal was 0 for 5 with three strikeouts against Arrieta in his career before he launched a 3-2 pitch into the right-field pavilion in the fourth for a 3-0 lead. Grandal drove in Reddick, who singled and stole second and third.Hes been so good for the last couple years just because he doesnt give in, Grandal said of Arrieta. He still made a really good pitch down in the zone. I was just lucky to put a swing on it and hit it out.Justin Turner homered on the first pitch leading off the sixth to chase Arrieta, who gave up four runs and six hits in five innings. He dominated the Dodgers in his previous two starts against them, including a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 30, 2015. Los Angeles had gone 2 for 51 against him in two games.Its hard to go out there and pitch when your team is not scoring, so you try to be perfect. You cant make any mistakes. If you give up one run, that can be it, Cubs catcher Miguel Montero said. He had one of his best stuff all year, to be honest.Joc Pederson doubled in a run in the eighth and Grandal hit a run-scoring groundout .Maddon moved struggling Anthony Rizzo from third to the cleanup spot, and his broken-bat infield hit in the ninth made him 2 for 26 in the postseason. Addison Russell, dropped from fifth to seventh, is 1 for 24. Jason Heyward struck out as a pinch hitter and is 2 for 19.Chicagos 3-4-5 hitters went 1 for 11 in the game and are 2 for 32 in the series without an RBI.Dexter Fowlers two-out double in the eighth provided the Cubs first extra-base hit since their 8-4 win in the opener.Theres no doubt here, third baseman Kris Bryant said. We certainly have all the belief in the world. Its a powerful thing when you believe.With a win Wednesday, the Dodgers could try to finish the series at home.These guys won 100-some games. Theyve got the talent, so you cant think ahead, Grandal said. If you think ahead, thats when bad things happen.SHUTOUT BLUESFour of Chicagos eight shutouts this year have been against the Dodgers.KERSHAWRoberts hasnt ruled out turning to Clayton Kershaw to pitch on three days rest in Game 5 on Thursday.Los Angeles has announced rookie Kenta Maeda as its starter. Hes given up seven earned runs in a combined seven innings of his two postseason starts.In last weeks five-game Division Series against Washington, Kershaw pitched in all three wins. He started Game 1 and Game 4, on three days rest and got his first big league save in Game 5.The series circumstances will kind of dictate what decision we make, Roberts said Tuesday. Clayton feels good after Game 2. Hes prepared for anything that we have for him. Hes shown the ability to adjust his routine or regimen for whatever is best for our club.UP NEXTLackey is 8-5 with a 3.22 ERA in 24 postseason appearances. Urias will be the third consecutive left-hander to start for the Dodgers. He earned the victory over Washington in Game 5 of the NLDS with two scoreless innings. Air Jordan 23 Sale . LOUIS -- Lance Lynn was one of the more enthusiastic participants as the St. Nike Free Sale . Third-seeded Murray had the easiest path to victory on New Years Eve, barely breaking a sweat during his 6-0, 6-0 win over 2,129th-ranked Qatari wildcard recipient Mousa Shanan Zayed. https://www.wholesaleshoesforcheap.com/nike-exp-x14-sale/ . Its an influence in football and a big part of the game. Air Max Trainer Sale . Woodson said during a radio interview Thursday that the Knicks Carmelo Anthony doesnt get the same calls as other superstars. Air Jordan 21 Sale . 24 Baylor in a Big 12 clash between teams trending in opposite directions. Andrew Wiggins made 10-of-12 from the foul line and scored 17 for Kansas (14-4, 5-0 Big 12), which capped a stretch of four straight games against ranked opponents unscathed. A roundup of the past weeks notable boxing results from around the world:Saturday at Las VegasTerence Crawford W12 Viktor Postol - Fight RecapUnifies two junior welterweight titles Scores: 118-107 (twice), 117-108 Records: Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs); Postol (28-1, 12 KOs)Rafaels remarks: For a fight that many viewed as one that would be quite competitive, Crawford, 28, of Omaha, Nebraska, shut down that notion pretty quickly in a dominant win against Postol, 32, of Ukraine, to unify 140-pound titles, stamp himself as the worlds best in the division without a doubt and drive home his worthiness as a top pound-for-pound talent. He also set himself up for a possible Nov. 5 showdown against unretiring Manny Pacquiao in what would be a very intriguing potential changing-of-the-guard fight.The 5-foot-11 Postol, who owned a three-inch height advantage, appeared to tower over Crawford and early on it looked like Crawford, who is typically a slow starter, might have a long night. After a shaky first three rounds, however, Crawford figured Postol out and romped to the win. Perhaps it was not the most scintillating performance, but Crawford did as he pleased, landed left hands almost at will and left Postol with no answers on how to deal with his speed, movement or punches from assorted angles. The CompuBox statistics illustrated that well as Crawford landed 141 of 388 punches (36 percent) to Postols 83 of 244 (34 percent). More notably, Postol averaged landing seven of 20 punches per round to Crawfords 12 of 32. Postol averaged landing 20 of 71 punches per round in his previous five fights. That tells you how good Crawfords defense is.Oscar Valdez KO2 Matias Adrian Rueda - Fight RecapWins a vacant featherweight title Records: Valdez (20-0, 18 KOs); Rueda (26-1, 23 KOs)Rafaels remarks: From the moment Valdez, 25, Mexicos only two-time Olympic boxer (2008 and 2012) turned pro he was viewed as a blue-chip prospect expected to win a world title. He did just that and in devastating fashion in this pure destruction of Rueda, 28, whose beautiful record had been build against a series of nobodies in his native Argentina. Valdez, who dreamed of winning a world title since he began boxing at age 8, won the belt vacated last month when Vasyl Lomachenko moved up to junior lightweight and won a world title. And Valdez did it impressively in a breakout performance as he displayed power with both hands. His left hook, especially to the body, was particularly devastating.With the 126-pound belt in hand, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has big plans for Valdez, beginning with a likely first title defense on Nov. 26 in Tucson, Arizona, where he grew up after his family came to the United States.Jose Benavidez Jr. W10 Francisco Chia SantanaWelterweight Scores: 100-90, 98-92, 96-94 Records: Benavidez (25-0, 16 KOs); Santana (24-5-1, 12 KOs)Rafaels remarks: The shutout score from judge Adalaide Byrd was absolutely outrageous and the 98-92 card from Glenn Feldman wasnt the best either. Although Benavidez, 24, of Phoenix, won the fight this was very close all the way as Santana, 30, of Santa Barbara, California, was super aggressive and came at Benavidez nonstop, forcing him to the ropes for long stretches. But Benavidez, a former interim junior welterweight titlist forced up in weight because of ongoing problems making 140 pounds, fought well off the ropes as he countered Santana effectively. Santana, who is usually in good fights, did not hurt his standing with the loss because of the tremendous effort and entertainment value he put out.Oleksandr Gvozdyk KO6 Tommy KarpencyLight heavyweight Records: Gvozdyk (11-0, 11 KOs); Karpency (26-6-1, 15 KOs).Rafaels remarks: Every prospect needs to overcome a moment of adversity at some point to make him a better fighter. Gvozdyk, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist from Ukraine with the look of a future world champion, got his in the first round when Karpency, a former two-time world title challenger (who also owns an upset decision win against former light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson), shockingly dropped him with a right hand he never saw.Gvozdyk, 29, trained by star trainer Robert Garcia, was hurt but got himself together and then took over the fight as he busted up Karpency, a 30-year-old southpaw from Adah, Pennsylvania, and battered him to the end. By the time the fight was over Karpency was bleeding from gash on the bridge of his nose, had a messed up left eye and was being overwhelmed by Gvozdyks superb power. In the sixth round, Gvozdyk ended the fight when he landed a right hand to the body and Karpency went down to a knee, where he took the count from referee Kenny Bayless at 2 minutes, 21 seconds.Saturday at San AntonioFabian Maidana TKO6 Jorge MaysonetWelterweight Records: Maidana (10-0, 7 KOs); Maysonet (13-2, 11 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Maidana, 24, of Argentina, is the younger brother of former junior welterweight and welterweight titleholder Marcos Maidana, who was ringside to watch him take apart Maysonet, 26, of Puerto Rico, in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC Sports Net. Maysonet bloodied Maidanas nose in the first round but Maidana shook it off and pressured him throughout the fight. He landed nearly triple the amount of punches (60-22, according to CompuBox) and steadily broke him down until Maysonets corner threw in the towel following the sixth round.Maidana was fighting in the same city where his older brother scored his biggest win in 2013, when he battered Adrien Broner to win a unanimous decision and a welterweight world title.Alan Castano W8 Aaron GarciaMiddleweight Scores: 78-74 (three times) Records: Castano (11-0, 7 KOs); Garcia (15-6-1, 10 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Powered by his right hand, Castano got off to a quick start and raised swelling over Garcias left eye almost immediately and then nailed him with repeated combinations in the second round. In the third round, an accidental head butt resulted in a bloody gash over Garcias right eye. There was good action in the bout, including in the fourth round. It was a competitive bout but Castano, fighting past the sixth round for the first time, got the better of the exchanges and landed the crisper punches.Also on the card, southpaw junior featherweight Brandon Figueroa (9-0, 7 KOs), 19, of Weslaco, Texas and the younger brother of former lightweight world titleholder Omar Figueroa, dropped Adalberto Zorrilla (7-2, 7 KOs), 24, of Puerto Rico, twice in the third round en route to a stoppage with 16 seconds left in the round.Friday at Mashantucket, Conn.Adam Lopez D10 Roman Ruben ReynosoJunior featherweight Scores: 96-94 Lopez, 97-93 Reynoso, 95-95 Records: Lopez (15-0-1, 7 KOs); Reynoso (18-1-2, 7 KOs)Rafaels remarks: In the main event of a 15th anniversary card of Showtimes popular prospect series, ShhoBox: The New Generation, Lopez, 25, of San Antonio and Reynoso, 25, of Argentina battled to a draw in an entertaining action fight that defined what the series is about: competitive fights between prospects.ddddddddddddAlthough Lopez was the favorite, Reynoso gave him a pitched battle. Lopez, however, had a big 10th round when he hurt Reynoso with a flurry of shots in the final seconds of the fight, forcing him spit out his mouthpiece, a move that bought him almost 30 seconds of rest and allowed him to recover enough to stay upright for the rest of the fight in what could have been a decisive round had he not spit the bit. All three judges gave Lopez the 10th round 10-9. Had Lopez knocked him down he would have taken the round 10-8 and won the fight.There was a lot on the line besides just being on national TV in a main event. Jonathan Guzman (22-0, 22 KOs), who won a junior featherweight world title a few days earlier, was at ringside having said he was hoping to make his first defense against the winner. Those plans have changed since it was a draw.Jerry Odom KO3 Julius JacksonSuper middleweight Records: Odom (14-2-1, 13 KOs); Jackson (19-2, 15 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Odom, 23, of Washington, D.C., took the fight on 10 days notice when Ronald Ellis dropped out with a hand injury and scored a tremendous one-punch knockout of Jackson, 28, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Odom obliterated Jackson, one of the fighting sons of former junior middleweight and middleweight titleholder Julian Jackson, with a huge right hand at 1 minute, 57 seconds of the third round. Referee Arthur Mercante Jr. immediately called off the fight.Jackson, like his father and brother John Jackson, has a poor chin and paid the price again, getting starched for the second consecutive fight inside three rounds.There were also two other fights on the telecast. Lightweight Rolando Chinea (13-1-1, 6 KOs), 25, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, won a split decision against OShaquie Foster (10-2, 7 KOs), 22, of Orange, Texas, in a tough fight to score -- 79-73 and 78-74 for Chinea and 77-75 for Foster.Also, junior middleweight Ian Green (10-1, 8 KOs), 22, of Paterson, New Jersey (and with former junior welterweight titleholder Kendall Holt, also of Paterson, working in his corner), knocked out Khiary Gray-Pitts (13-1, 10 KOs), 23, of Worcester, Massachusetts, at 2 minutes, 50 seconds of the second round. After being staggered in the first round, Green, a late substitute, dropped Gray-Pitts twice in the second round.Thursday at Mashantucket, Conn.Sergiy Derevyanchenko KO2 Sam SolimanMiddleweight - Title eliminator Records: Derevyanchenko (9-0, 7 KOs); Soliman (44-14, 18 KOs)Rafaels remarks: The Premier Boxing Champions main event on ESPN was poor on paper and in the ring. Although Derevyanchenko, 30, of Ukraine and living in Brooklyn, New York, is one of the top up-and-comers in boxing, he is not your average 9-0 fighter. He was a 2008 Olympian, went 390-20 as an amateur and was also 23-1 in World Series of Boxing competition. Former world titleholder Soliman, 42, of Australia, has always made terrible television fights and now is significantly past his prime as well. He came into the fight having boxed 516 rounds, most of any notable active fighter, was coming off a 13-month layoff, multiple knee injuries and now has lost three fights in a row.No way should he have been in a televised main event, not to mention a title eliminator, which this fight was. It was an eliminator for No. 2 in a sanctioning body with the winner to move a step closer to a mandatory fight with unified titleholder Gennady Golovkin.Derevyanchenko, known as The Technician, crushed Soliman with ease. In the opening round, he bounced him off ropes with a sweeping right hand and then tagged him with a right hand on the chin to drop him to a knee. In the second round he put him away. First he knocked him down with a left hand to the head and then he was all over him when the fight resumed, eventually blasting him with a left hand to the chin to drop him in a heap. Soliman attempted to rise but fell over and referee Johnny Callas waved off the brutal mismatch at 2 minutes, 41 seconds.Ievgen Khytrov TKO9 Paul MendezMiddleweight Records: Khytrov (14-0, 12 KOs); Mendez (19-3-2, 9 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Blue-chip prospect Khytrov, 27, a native of Ukraine fighting out of Brooklyn, New York, and a 2011 world amateur champion, looked very good in an exiting performance in which he dismantled Mendez, 27, of Delano, California, with an avalanche of power shots. Mendez took an enormous amount of punishment but showed a big heart to stay on his feet until the end. They battled toe to toe for stretches but Khytrov got the better of virtually every exchange.Khytrov pounded him throughout the fight and seemed to land almost at will in the later rounds. When Khytrov cornered Mendez, who had not lost since 2011, and belted him with a series of unanswered blows in the ninth round, referee Joe Lupino called a halt to the fight upon the recommendation of the ringside doctor at 1 minute, 20 seconds.How brutal of a beating did Khytrov dish out? According to CompuBox punch statistics, he landed 53.6 punches per round, more than three times the middleweight average. He landed 40.4 power shots per round, also more than three times the division average. His 71 punches landed in the second round are second all time for middleweights. His 482 total punches landed (in only nine rounds!) is also No. 2 all time for middleweights. The record is held by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who landed a middleweight record 506 punches in a 12-round win against John Duddy.Thursday at Christchurch, New ZealandJoseph Parker KO4 Solomon HaumonoHeavyweight Records: Parker (20-0, 17 KOs); Haumono (24-3-2, 21 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Parker, 24, of New Zealand, is already the mandatory challenger for world titleholder Anthony Joshua, but he stayed busy by scoring yet another knockout, this one against Haumono, 40, a New Zealand native fighting out of Australia.Parker, fighting in the hometown of his trainer, Kevin Barry, had no issues with Haumono, whose four-fight winning streak came to a crashing halt. Parker controlled the first three rounds and was doing so again in the fourth round when he landed a clean right uppercut that sent Haumono sprawling to the canvas. He beat the count but referee Bruce McTavish elected to call off the fight at 1 minute, 35 seconds.With Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs), 26, of England, free to make an optional defense until Nov. 8 and the mandatory fight not due until Jan. 9, Parker will fight again in September in New Zealand, likely against Alexander Dimitrenko (38-2, 24 KOs), 34, of Russia. ' ' '