The Dodgers are one win away from advancing to the NLCS for the third year in a row, and per usual, the big story of the night was Clayton Kershaw.
There was a lot of chatter before the game about whether Kershaw should have started Game 1 of the series, as the Dodgers instead opted to ride the red-hot arm of Hyun-Jin Ryu. All Clayton did was go out and go longer into a postseason game than he ever had before—eight full innings of two hit ball.
Kershaw started the game allowing a first-pitch leadoff double to Ronald Acuna Jr, who was eventually stranded at third.