The booming bats of the Dodgers were relatively quiet Monday night, save for a home run by Enrique Hernandez to lead off the second inning and a pinch-hit home run by Chris Taylor to open the eighth. It was a good night for Dodgers pitchers to muzzle the bats of the Chicago Cubs.
Right-hander Kenta Maeda was brilliant, giving up three singles in seven scoreless innings, left-hander Scott Alexander escaped an eighth-inning jam, and Kenley Jansen survived some drama in the ninth to close out a 2-1 victory in front of 41,750 in Dodger Stadium.
Jansen gave up a one-out single to Ben Zobrist and balked Zobrist to second base.