to a quick lead on a homer by Randal Grichuk in the top of the first. The Dodgers went ahead in the third when Yasiel Puig was hit by a pitch, moved to second on a groundout and scored on a single by Hanley Ramírez, who was then doubled in by Carl Crawford. They got two more the next inning on RBI singles by Puig and Matt Kemp and then made it 6–1 with a two-run home run by A. J. Ellis (who was 4–for–5 in the game) in the fifth to chase Wainwright from the game. Kershaw did not allow another hit after the first inning home run until Matt Carpenter hit a home run in the sixth. He started to unravel in the seventh, allowing four straight singles to start the inning and score a run. A strikeout of Pete Kozma was the first out and a Jon Jay RBI single cut the lead to two runs. Carpenter's three-run double put the Cardinals ahead 7-6 and chased Kershaw. Reliever Pedro Báez came on in relief, walking Grichuk and then allowed a three-run homer to Matt Holliday to put the Cardinals ahead by four runs. This tied the record of most runs scored in an inning in a Division series, eight, which the Baltimore Orioles accomplished just a day earlier in their ALDS matchup with the Detroit Tigers. Kershaw (who also struggled in game six of the 2013 NLCS) became the first pitcher in history to allow at least seven runs in consecutive post-season starts, and also the first pitcher in history to allow eight runs in a post-season game while also striking out ten. The Dodgers got a two-run homer by Adrián González in the eighth off of Randy Choate and also added one more in the ninth off of Trevor Rosenthal on Dee Gordon's RBI groundout with two on, but it was not enough as they lost the opener 10–9. Game 2 In Game two, Zack Greinke struck out seven while allowing no runs and two hits in seven innings. The Dodgers pushed ahead two runs off Lance Lynn in the third on Dee Gordon's groundout after a leadoff double and single and Adrián González's RBI single. However, Matt Carpenter again was the key player for the Cardinals, as he hit a two-run homer off J. P. Howell in the top of the eighth to even up