Cubs vs. Dodgers 2017 live stream: Time, TV channel, and how to watch NLCS Game 2 online

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers try for a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and they’ll try to stay undefeated so far in the 2017 postseason.

Chicago scored first in Game 1 of this NLCS rematch on Saturday night with a two-run home run by Albert Almora Jr. against Clayton Kershaw. But the Dodgers rallied to tie against Jose Quintana, who was done after five innings, then scored three off the Cubs bullpen, including home runs by Chris Taylor and Yasiel Puig.

Puig has excelled so far in the playoffs for the Dodgers, driving in two runs in three of the Dodgers’ four postseason games, all wins. He was 2-for-4 in Game 1, with an RBI double and a solo home run, and is 7-for-15 (.467) this postseason.

“This is my best season,” said Puig, who hit a career-high 28 home runs during the regular season.

The Dodgers’ bullpen retired all 12 batters tit faced, including Kenley Jansen striking out all four batters he faced to close out the win.

“I think the biggest difference is we have to get our bullpen in order,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said after Game 1. “Right now, their bullpen is pretty firm, and we have to really get our feet back on the ground.”

Rich Hill starts Game 2 for the Dodgers, looking for a repeat performance of his six scoreless innings in Game 3 of the 2016 NLCS, also at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers led that series two games to one but ultimately lost in six games to the Cubs, who won 103 games and won the World Series.

This year, the Dodgers won 104 games and have home-field advantage.

“Last year we wanted to beat the best, and we thought the Cubs were the best,” Hill said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t get through that round.

“But what we gained in experience was huge to get to this point. So a lot of guys that were on that roster last year with the Dodgers are back again this year, and we’re able to feed off of those experiences from last year and understand that where we got to, it wasn’t such a failure. It was more of a learning point in moving forward.”

Jon Lester starts for the Cubs, making his 21st career postseason start.

Cubs manager Joe Maddon was ejected for arguing after the Dodgers added an insurance run because of a violation of the home-plate collision rule in the seventh inning of Game 1:

For those not familiar with the Home Plate Collision Rule, it dictates that a catcher can’t block a runner’s path to the plate if they don’t have the ball. If, while they are catching the ball they move into the runner’s path that’s fine. But if it is blocked in advance, the runner can be called safe.

“The umpires did everything according to what they’ve been told, but I, from day one, have totally disagreed with the content of that rule,” Maddon said after the game.

“That was a beautifully done Major League play all the way around. That gets interpreted kind of like tantamount to the soda tax in Chicago, for me,” Maddon added. “Suddenly we’re taxing soda back there all of a sudden. My point is all rules that are created or laws aren’t necessarily good ones. That’s my point.”

The Dodgers have made opposing pitchers work this postseason:

“Even from the beginning, from the first pitch I thought our at-bat quality was very good. Yeah, those walks got him in the end. But you look at what J.T. did his first two at-bats against him,” Dave Roberts said. “We just kind of continued to grind those at-bats and fortunately we broke through.”

It continued a pattern for the Dodgers this postseason. They saw a total of 158 pitches in eight innings in Game 1 of the NLCS, their lowest total in four playoff games so far. They have seen 688 total pitches in those four games, an average of 20.8 per inning.

Dodgers pitchers threw 127 pitches on Saturday night, in nine innings.

Opposing starting pitchers have recorded 46 outs against the Dodgers in these playoffs. Relievers have recorded 53.