He also allowed four home runs (to A. J. Pollock in the third, J. D. Martinez in the sixth, and Ketel Marte and Jeff Mathis in the seventh), the first National League pitcher to ever do so in a postseason game.

The Dodgers got to Diamondbacks starter Taijuan Walker early, as Justin Turner followed a leadoff single and walk with a three-run home run.

Walker was replaced after the first inning by Zack Godley, who pitched five innings of relief while allowing three more runs to score, all in the fourth when Corey Seager and Justin Turner hit back-to-back RBI singles after a leadoff single and walk, then an error loaded the bases before Puig's groundout scored another run.

Kenley Jansen allowed a run in the ninth on Jake Lamb's groundout with two on before getting David Peralta to line out to end the game as the Dodgers held on to win, 9–5.

In the fourth, three singles loaded the bases with one out for the Dodgers before another wild pitch by Ray tied the game.

The Dodgers got a run in the bottom of the inning on Ketel Marte's fielding error on Chris Taylor's groundball off Archie Bradley.

The Cubs, who were held without a hit in the first five innings, were led off in the sixth with Javier Báez reaching on an error by the sure handed Anthony Rendon on a ball that was ruled just fair.

Kris Bryant drove home Báez on a two-out RBI single (the first hit by the Cubs on the night) advancing to second on the throw.

The Cubs added one more run in the eighth when Jon Jay hit a leadoff double off Ryan Madson and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double, as Hendricks threw seven scoreless innings giving up just two hits, with the bullpen tossing two scoreless as the Cubs took Game 1 by a score of 3–0.

However, in the top of the second, the Cubs struck right back, as the first batter of the inning, Willson Contreras homered off Nationals' starter Gio González.

In the bottom of the eighth, Adam Lind led off with a pinch-hit single before Bryce Harper homered off Carl Edwards Jr. to tie the game at 3–3.

Edwards walked Anthony Rendon, then Mike Montogmery allowed a single to Daniel Murphy before Ryan Zimmerman hit a three-run home run to put the Nationals up 6–3.

Sean Doolittle retired the Cubs in order in the ninth to tie the series at one, heading to Wrigley Field.

Game 3 featured another pitchers' duel, this time between José Quintana of the Cubs and Max Scherzer of the Nationals.

The Nationals brought in lefty reliever Sammy Solis to face Schwarber, but the Cubs sent pinch hitter Albert Almora to hit, and he singled home Zobrist to tie the game at 1–1.

In the bottom of the eighth, Tommy La Stella drew a leadoff walk off Brandon Kintzler, then moved to second on a sacrifice bunt.

One out later, Óliver Pérez was summoned in to face Anthony Rizzo, but he hit a bloop single to left-center field scoring Leonys Martín.

The Nationals scored first, as with two on and two out in the top of the fourth, Ryan Zimmerman hit a ground ball to shortstop Addison Russell who had trouble handling it.

Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle held the Cubs scoreless as the Nationals won to stave off elimination.

After two straight singles, Michael Taylor hit his second homer of the series in as many at bats to give the Nationals a 4–1 lead.

After an intentional walk to Heyward, Javier Báez struck out, but catcher Matt Wieters gave up a passed ball.

In the bottom of the seventh, Cubs' setup man Carl Edwards Jr. pitched, but walked his only batter, Taylor.

After surrendering leadoff walks to Murphy and Anthony Rendon, Adam Lind pinch hit for pitcher Ryan Madson.

Davis recorded his record-tying third save of the series (Aroldis Chapman was the last closer to do accomplish this, doing this in the 2016 NLDS).