Enrique Hernandez, a utility player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, hit three home runs on Thursday night as the Dodgers crushed the Chicago Cubs, 11-1, to win the National League Championship Series and advance to their first World Series since 1988.
Hernandez drove in a postseason-record-tying total of seven runs with the three homers, which included a grand slam in the third inning that virtually finished off the Cubs, the defending World Series champions. The Cubs won only one game in the best-of-seven series.
The Dodgers had 104 wins in the regular season, more than any other team in Major League Baseball since the 2004 St.