LOS ANGELES — There goes the notion the Dodgers only have two starting pitchers they can trust this postseason.
Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke are studs for sure, but Monday night, Hyun-Jin Ryu joined the conversation with the performance of his baseball life.
The rookie left-hander dominated the Cardinals for seven innings — just the latest stellar performance by a starting pitcher in this NL Championship Series — resuscitating the Dodgers' postseason plans. The Dodgers are alive after a 3-0 victory in Game 3 of the NLCS before 53,940 at Chavez Ravine.
Ryu, who bombed in his start against the Braves in Game 3 of the NLDS, allowed only three hits over seven shutout innings to out-gun Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright.
The Dodgers, down 2-1 in the series, will look to even the NLCS on Tuesday, when Ricky Nolasco faces the Cardinals' Lance Lynn. It will be the first start this postseason for Nolasco, who was bumped from the rotation in the NLDS so the Dodgers could pitch Kershaw on short rest. Lynn was the winning pitcher in Game 1 of this series, when he fired two innings of shutout relief in the Cardinals' 3-2 victory in 13 innings. The Cardinals won the following game 1-0.
"The playoffs don't start until you lose one at home," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said before the game. "If we can beat their top guy, it kind of puts momentum on our side."
Hanley Ramirez, who was diagnosed with a hairline fracture of his eighth rib on the left side, returned to the lineup after missing Game 2 and finished 2-for-4 with an RBI single in the eighth. The shortstop was questionable to start, but convinced team brass during pregame drills he could play through the injury.
Ramirez's single in the eighth that made it 3-0 gave closer Kenley Jansen an extra cushion. Carl Crawford and Mark Ellis had singled in succession to begin the rally. Ramirez then hit a bloop to center and Crawford kept running, sliding in just underneath Yadier Molina's tag.
Jansen fired a perfect ninth after Brian Wilson got the Dodgers through the eighth, striking out Matt Carpenter to leave a runner on base.
Wainwright lasted seven innings and surrendered two runs on six hits with five strikeouts. It was a third straight start for Wainwright this postseason in which he allowed two earned runs or fewer.
Ryu didn't allow a hit until the fifth, when David Freese and Matt Adams singled in succession. But Freese left the game with right calf tightness and pinch-runner Daniel Descalso was doubled off second base on Jon Jay's routine fly to left.
After 22 consecutive scoreless innings for the Dodgers, Adrian Gonzalez delivered an RBI double in the fourth to end the drought. The sellout crowd erupted as Gonzalez dumped a ball into right field, allowing Mark Ellis to easily score from second.
But the Dodgers weren't finished. Yasiel Puig snapped an 0-for-11 skid in the series with a shot off the right-field fence that went for an RBI triple. Puig stood watching his ball, believing it would clear the fence, and then took off like a locomotive and barreled into third base.
The rally started on a miscommunication between Jay and Carlos Beltran as they converged on Mark Ellis' fly ball to begin the inning. The ball dropped between them, allowing Ellis to reach second.
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