Dodgers stun Cubs for 2-0 series lead

Justin Turner's three-run walk off homer to center field in the bottom of the ninth inning tonight gave the Dodgers a 4-1 victory over the Cubs and a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.

The series now moves to Chicago for games three through five under the 2-3-2 playoff format.

Rich Hill went five innings in a matchup with Chicago ace Jon Lester that turned into a pitcher's duel knotted at 1-1 in the ninth before Turner deposited a John Lackey breaking ball into the center field bleachers.

A weakness in year's past, the Dodger bullpen has emerged as one of the team's strengths as Brandon Morrow, Josh Fields, Tony Watson and Kenley Jansen combined for four innings of no-hit ball to secure the win.

Tonight's drama filled victory came on the heel's of Saturday's 5-2 win over the Cubs that featured four innings of no-hit ball from relievers Tony Cingrani, Kenta Maeda, Morrow, Tony Watson and Jansen after Kershaw went five innings.

Yasiel Puig, Chris Taylor and Justin Turner were the offensive heroes on Saturday with Puig and Taylor going yard and tonight it was Turner knocking in the tying run in the fifth inning with an opposite field single to right before his ninth inning game-ender.

Shortstop Charlie Culberson, filling in for the injured Corey Seager, had a key sac fly in last night's game and had a pair of hits tonight, including a crucial double in the gap to left center which eventually turned into a Dodger run on Turner's single.

Culberson spent most of the season in Oklahoma City but is making the most of his sudden roster call for the playoffs.

Hill and Lester pitched to a standoff tonight but the Dodger bullpen that was better than Chicago's for the second straight night.

The Dodgers will send Yu Darvish to the hill on Tuesday to face Chicago's Kyle Hendricks in a must-win game for the Cubs.