After splitting the first two games of the series, the Washington Nationals tasked Jeremy Hellickson with starting the rubber match. He impressed, continuing the trend of stellar pitching set by Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg, but it was not enough to clinch the series.
Hellickson dominated his way through five scoreless innings, retiring 14 Dodgers in a row at one point, but hit a wall in the sixth. His pitch count was into the eighties, which was nearing his 90-pitch limit, and each Dodger had seen him twice.
The sixth got off to a solid start with a pop-out to first, but two doubles and a walk ended Hellickson’s night.