LOS ANGELES — Adrian Gonzalez hit a go-ahead, two-run double during a four-run surge in the seventh inning, rallying the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-2 victory over the New York Mets in Game 2 of their National League Division Series on Saturday night before a sellout crowd of 54,455 at Dodger Stadium.
Zack Greinke (1-0) won his seventh consecutive start, allowing two runs and five hits with eight strikeouts and no walks in seven innings as the Dodgers evened the best-of-five series at a game apiece.
Game 3 is Monday at Citi Field in New York. Brett Anderson (10-9, 3.69 ERA) will get the nod for the Dodgers and the Mets will counter with Matt Harvey (13-8, 2.71).
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen walked right fielder Curtis Granderson before retiring three straight Mets in the ninth to nail down the save.
Mets starter Noah Syndergaard (0-1) struck out nine but was charged with three runs in the seventh. He walked four and gave up five hits.
Center fielder Yoenis Cespedes and rookie left fielder Michael Conforto homered for New York.
Dodgers center fielder Enrique Hernandez drew a one-out walk in the seventh and advanced to third on pinch-hitter Chase Utley’s single to right. Hernandez scored on a fielder’s choice off the bat of second baseman Howie Kendrick to tie the score at 2. Utley upended Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada on the play and was safe at second after an official review.
Tejada was carted off with a fractured right fibula.
Gonzalez smacked a two-run double to right one batter later off reliever Addison Reed to lift Los Angeles to a 4-2 lead. Third baseman Justin Turner added an RBI double for a three-run cushion.
Cespedes led off the second with a solo blast to right for a 1-0 New York lead. Cespedes has at least one hit in 11 of his last 12 postseason games.
Conforto, who made his major league debut in July, ripped a Greinke fastball off the foul pole in right for a solo shot with two outs in the second for a 2-0 advantage. Conforto homered in his first postseason at-bat. Edgardo Alfonzo is the only other Met to homer in his first at-bat in the playoffs.
In the fourth, Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner opened the inning with a ground-rule double to left and scored on right fielder Andre Ethier’s two-bagger to right to slice the deficit in half.
Cubs 6, Cardinals 3
ST. LOUIS — With some help from the St. Louis Cardinals, the Chicago Cubs used the second inning to flip home-field advantage to the North Side.
Two throwing errors led to five unearned runs, a lead that the Chicago bullpen helped protect with 4 1/3 scoreless innings Saturday in a 6-3 victory that squared the best-of-five National League Division Series at a game each.
Left-hander Travis Wood picked up the win with 2 1/3 innings of relief, allowing just one hit and fanning two. Right-hander Trevor Cahill and closer Hector Rondon got the last six outs, with Rondon notching the save.
Starter Jaime Garcia absorbed the loss, leaving after two innings with what St. Louis officials announced was a stomach virus. Garcia gave up four hits and five runs, walking one and fanning two.
His throwing error on a squeeze bunt by pitcher Kyle Hendricks scored left fielder Austin Jackson — who reached on a fielder’s choice when second baseman Kolten Wong threw a potential double play ball into his team’s dugout — to ignite the big second inning. Garcia appeared to have a play at the plate, hesitated and threw wide of first.
Shortstop Addison Russell then squeezed home catcher Miguel Montero for a 2-1 Cubs lead. Center fielder Dexter Fowler’s infield single plated Hendricks and right fielder Jorge Soler followed with a two-run homer to center.
Montero added an RBI groundout in the third for Chicago’s last run.
All of the Cardinals’ scoring occurred on solo homers. Third baseman Matt Carpenter led off the first with a 412-foot blast to center field. Wong and pinch-hitter Randal Grichuk belted two-out homers in the fifth.
But St. Louis’ offense managed just two hits after that, never even bringing the tying run to the plate.
Game 3 is Monday at Wrigley Field with 22-game winner Jake Arrieta taking the mound for the Cubs against Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha.