For the second straight year, the Dodgers have reached a winner-take-all Game 5 of the National League Division Series. Last year, the series was won by the road team and Daniel Murphy moved on to the NLCS. This year, only one of those can happen after the Dodgers battle the Nationals in Game 5 on Thursday night at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.
Murphy has been a thorn in the Dodgers’ side for the bulk of this series, as he was in 2015 while with the Mets. The Nationals second baseman drove in four runs on Tuesday in Game 4, and in two years of playoff matchups against the Dodgers is hitting .