After dropping a 5-3 decision on Friday night in a Yu Darvish meltdown, the Dodgers were staring at a 3-1 deficit going into last night's Game Four in Houston.
Enter Alex Wood, Cody Bellinger, Logan Forsythe and Joc Pederson.
Wood pitched 5.2 innings of one-hit ball, Bellinger broke out of a slump with two key doubles, Forsythe delivered a key RBI single and Pederson provided insurance as the Dodgers broke open a pitcher's duel with five runs in the top of the ninth inning enroute to a 6-2 victory to tie the series at 2-2.
Houston managed just two hits off Wood and relievers Brandon Morrow, Tony Watson and Kenley Jansen, both of them home runs. George Springer and Alex Bregman connected off Wood and Jansen for solo shots but that was all the Astros could muster.
Bellinger, who had been mired in deep slump, concentrated on going to left field in batting practice and delivered two key doubles for the Dodgers. Forsythe delivered a clutch scoring single and Pederson capped the ninth inning with a three-run dinger to right off Houston closer Ken Giles.
Pederson was hitting in the DH slot after spending most of the playoffs on the bench. Giles missed high and Pederson clubbed the homer into the right field bleachers.
Clayton Kershaw and Dallas Keuchel square off tonight in Game Five, with the series going back to Los Angeles on Tuesday for Game Six.
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