All the Dodgers needed to do was win one more game. All they needed to do was produce with runners on base. With Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for Game 3, they desperately needed to give him ample run support.

And, yet, the NLDS lives on as the Dodgers are forced to play at least one more game on Thursday against the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Dodgers had a rough go of things against both southpaws Cristopher Sánchez and Jesús Luzardo over the first two games. This time around against right-hander Aaron Nola, the Dodgers managed to put a man in scoring position with a Mookie Betts triple. Nola found himself in further trouble after plunking Freddie Freeman, but he froze Will Smith to leave men on the corners.

Then the Phillies took the lead in the fourth inning, eventually driving Yam

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