Pages breaks seventh-inning tie as Dodgers eliminate Braves 4-1

Andy Pages broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run single, and the Dodgers finished off the Braves 4-1 on Wednesday at Truist Park to win their National League Division Series three games to one. Los Angeles won both games in Atlanta and advances to face the Brewers or Padres in the NLCS.

The deciding rally started with Teoscar Hernández's single against Tyler Mahle. Atlanta turned to Didier Fuentes, who walked pinch-hitter Josue De Paula and Kyle Tucker. Tommy Edman replaced De Paula on the bases. With two outs and the bases full, Pages lined Robert Suarez's full-count pitch into center to score Hernández and Edman.

Pages finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs. His single was the difference in a game that remained 1-1 from the second inning through the sixth. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith went a combined 0-for-12, but Los Angeles found enough offense farther down the order to end the series without a fifth game.

Max Muncy supplied the extra room in the ninth, homering off Raisel Iglesias for a three-run lead. It was the only homer of the game. The Dodgers finished with five hits, two of them from Pages, while Atlanta managed three.

Tyler Glasnow allowed one hit and one run in 4⅔ innings, although five walks kept the Braves in position to threaten. Michael Harris II singled on Glasnow's first pitch, stole second and eventually scored on a wild pitch. Atlanta's lead disappeared in the second after Shohei Ohtani walked, stole second and advanced on Sean Murphy's throwing error. Ohtani scored when Mauricio Dubón dropped Muncy's pop fly.

Glasnow left with two runners on in the fifth. Alex Vesia retired Matt Olson to end that threat. After Ozzie Albies led off the sixth with a double, Edgardo Henriquez helped strand him at second. Henriquez worked 1⅔ scoreless innings and earned the win; Tanner Scott and Edwin Díaz followed with perfect eighth and ninth innings. Díaz needed eight pitches for the save.

Mahle gave Atlanta 6⅓ innings, allowing three hits and two runs, one earned. His performance kept the Braves level until the seventh, when the Dodgers turned a single and two walks into the winning rally. Atlanta's five walks off Glasnow produced no additional run after Harris' first-inning score.

The Associated Press reported that Hernández remained in the game after hitting the wall while pursuing Albies' double. Miguel Rojas was unavailable after Tuesday's exit with lower back soreness, and Ronald Acuña Jr. returned to right field after starting Game 3 at designated hitter because of knee soreness. Those observations do not establish a new injury diagnosis. The Dodgers now have a completed series and an opponent still to be determined.