Take Game 1 of the NLCS against the Brewers. Snell turned one of the best fastball-hitting lineups in baseball into a group left scratching its heads. Snell, holding on to a 1-0 lead, made a living pitching backward, and dropped in a 0-0 curveball to Sal Frelick for a called first strike.

The last time we saw Snell in the World Series was as a member of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020. In Game 6 of that series, against the Dodgers, he was controversially taken out of a game he was leading 1-0. After Snell’s exit, the Dodgers would rally and win the game to clinch the series.

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-time Cy Young Award winner detailed a brutal illness that forced a hospital stay.