For the Dodgers to ultimately accomplish their goal, winning a World Series for the first time in 27 years, they will first have to get through something they also haven't experienced in 27 years, a winner-take-all game. The National League Division Series is down to a best-of-one Game 5 on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
Here is a look at the winner-take-all games in Los Angeles Dodgers postseason history, with the last in 1988.
1988 NLCS, Game 7
The Dodgers, like this year, were facing a Mets team that won the regular season series against them, with New York sending a 27-year-old member of a young and deep great starting pitching staff to the mound at Dodger Stadium, while Los Angeles was using its Cy Young candidate who that season had the longest scoreless-inning streak in baseball in at least two decades.