The Wild Card Series games will be played at the home field of the higher seeded team.
The previous meeting took place in the 2018 National League Championship Series, in which the Dodgers won in seven games.
With Austin Barnes at the plate, he hit a single to center to drive in a run and set up Mookie Betts.
Kershaw's strikeout total was the most for a Dodger in the postseason since Sandy Koufax struck out 15 batters in the 1963 World Series.
2020 NLWC (2–0): Los Angeles Dodgers beat Milwaukee Brewers This is the second postseason meeting between the Braves and Reds.
The previous meeting took place in the 1995 National League Championship Series, in which the Braves won in a four-game sweep.
In the 11th, the Reds got on with a double and two walks after two strikeouts, but Tyler Matzek struck out Mike Moustakas to end the threat.
In the bottom half, the Braves reached on singles by Nick Markakis and Austin Riley off Archie Bradley to set up for Freddie Freeman versus Amir Garrett.
Home runs by Marcell Ozuna and Adam Duvall in the eight inning off Raisel Iglesias proved the final blow needed for the Braves to win their first postseason clincher in 19 years.
[14][15] For the sixth time in MLB history, the Reds became the fifth team to end a postseason without scoring a run, after the Indians (2013), Pirates (2014 and 2015), Yankees (2015), and Mets (2016), and the first team in MLB history to fail to score a run in a postseason series with more than one game.
2020 NLWC (2–0): Atlanta Braves beat Cincinnati Reds This is the second postseason meeting between the Cubs and Marlins.
The Marlins were making their first postseason appearance since the 2003 World Series, and they sent out Sandy Alcántara to pitch against Kyle Hendricks.
He proceeded to hit a shot to left-center field that cleared the wall and turn the lead in favor of Miami.
Sixto Sanchez was matched for the Marlins against Yu Darvish of the Cubs, with the latter making his first postseason start since the 2017 World Series.
Already the first team to make the postseason after losing 100 games the previous season, the Marlins rode the arm of starter Sixto Sanchez for five innings before leaving it to the bullpen, which combined for a shutout.
Miguel Rojas added in an insurance run not long after with a single after Matt Joyce reached with a double.
This was the last game for several members of the Cubs 2016 championship core, including Theo Epstein, who mutually parted ways with the team in November.
Wil Myers and Fernando Tatis Jr. were the first teammates each to hit two home runs in a postseason game since Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig did it in the 1932 World Series.