The Dodgers won Game 5 with an unusual pitching plan

Knebel pitched one scoreless inning, dancing round a number of hard-hit balls. Brusdar Graterol put up a zero within the second, permitting Urias to enter after his spot within the lineup had handed. As soon as Urias entered, he put the sport in a stranglehold. Urias allowed one run in 4 innings, the one blemish a monstrous solo house run by Darin Ruf. Relievers Blake Treinin and Kenley Jansen served because the bridge to the ninth inning, and Max Scherzer closed a 2-1 victory with assist from an atrocious check-swing, strike-three name on Wilmer Flores to finish it, for the primary save of his profession. The Dodgers used six pitchers, and until you depend Jansen, who usually closes, simply one in every of them carried out his typical position.