A day after Enrique Hernandez criticized the Dodger Stadium crowd for its lack of energy, hours after he apologized for that critique, Chavez Ravine was filled Tuesday with the noisy joy of amends.
The energy was real. The Dodgers fed on it, were fueled by it, and eventually flew with it, all the way back into this National League Championship Series with a hit that brought the house down.
In the 13th inning of Game 4, ending a night that lasted more than five hours, an exhausted Cody Bellinger found the strength to muscle a two-out, full-count slider from Junior Guerra past first base and into right field to score Manny Machado from second base to give the Dodgers a 2-1 victory and even the series at two games apiece.