Los Angeles arrived at Dodgers Stadium down 2-0 to the Braves in the National League Championship Series. Now, they're headed back to Atlanta after a commanding 11-2 victory to trail the Braves, 3-2, in the series.
"That's what we needed to do," Chris Taylor said, who tallied three homers and six RBIs. "We needed to make a statement. They put it on us yesterday so we had to respond. It's a good answer for us, and now we go to Atlanta and try to take two."
He is the first player in MLB postseason history to have a three-homer game in a potential elimination competition, which he said was "kind of surreal.