/ STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON – It will be a team of destiny facing a team of density, the Dodgers having packed their roster with enough mass per unit volume to overcome their own shortcomings and reach the National League Championship Series.
Closers pitching in the seventh inning. Tag-team starting pitchers. Backup catchers pinch-running and pinch-hitting – at the same time. Aces “absolutely not” available to pitch closing out the game. Cats living with dogs.
Welcome to the new world order.
The Dodgers used all of that and more – well, maybe not the cats-and-dogs thing – to somehow both come-from-behind and hold on for their dear lives, beating the Washington Nationals, 4-3, in Game 5 of their National League Division Series on Thursday night at Nationals Park.