Last October, the Dodgers blitzed the Atlanta Braves with an 11-run first inning of Game 3 to get back in the National League Championship Series.
On Tuesday, facing an identical 0-2 deficit entering the third game of this year’s NLCS rematch against the Braves, the Dodgers needed late heroics to keep their season from reaching the brink.
With a dramatic 6-5 win at Dodger Stadium, decided during a rollicking four-run eighth inning in which Cody Bellinger tied the score with a three-run homer before Mookie Betts decided it with an RBI double, the Dodgers cut their series deficit in half and snatched all the momentum in the best-of-seven showdown.