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Suddenly Dodgers’ grand plan is back in play

These five-game series can give you whiplash, can’t they? Just like that, the Mets go from in command to in reverse, forced to hightail it back to SoCal in order to claim this NLDS.

And the Dodgers, the team that approached this week carrying the weight of a thousand ships and 300 million dollars, now have the upper hand once more, for their master plan is back in play: They get to go home, and they get to start the man who might win the NL Cy Young award.

Because Clayton Kershaw successfully refuted the myth that he is a bad postseason pitcher Tuesday night, leading the Dodgers to a 3-1 victory over the Mets in Game 4 at Citi Field and tying this series at two games apiece, the lefty’s co-ace Zack Greinke will get the do-or-die start for Thursday’s Game 5 at Dodger Stadium, on full rest, against the Mets’ stud Jacob deGrom, who outpitched Kershaw for the Game 1 victory.