LHP Jose Quintana wasn't officially named the Cubs' Game 1 starter in the NLCS until Saturday morning. Quintana's wife fell ill in the team's charter flight from Washington to Los Angeles early Friday morning. Manager Joe Maddon said he waited as long as possible to make sure Quintana was up for the assignment. He gave up two runs on two hits in five innings.

LHP Jon Lester was officially named the starter for Sunday's Game 2 of the NLCS. The outing will come three days after he threw 51 pitches in a relief outing during Game 4 of the NLDS at home against the Nationals. Lester game up one run on two hits over six innings during a NLDS Game 2 start against the Nationals. He started in two of the Cubs' four victories over the Dodgers in the NLCS last year.

OF Albert Almora Jr. picked up in the NLCS right where he left off in the regular season. Almora hit a two-run homer off left-hander Clayton Kershaw in the fourth inning. He batted .342 against lefties during the regular season and .433 with two home runs and 11 RBIs over his final 16 regular-season games against all pitchers.

2B Javier Baez is hitless in 17 at-bats to open the postseason after going 0-for-3 on Saturday. The only Cubs player with a longer hitless streak to open a postseason, according to Elias, was Jimmy Sheckard who was 0-for-21 in 1906. In the 2016 postseason, Baez had tied a club record by opening the playoffs with a six-game hit streak.

RHP Hector Rondon was not named to the NLCS roster until Saturday, seeing action in Game 1 only to give up a go-ahead home run to the Dodgers' Chris Taylor on his second pitch. Rondon was not on the roster for the NLDS against the Nationals. The Cubs elected to leave LHP Justin Wilson off the NLCS roster.

SS Carlos Correa clubbed his third home run of the postseason, an opposite-field solo shot off Yankees RHP Luis Severino in the fourth inning. He eclipsed his own club record for postseason homers set in 2015. He also became, at 23 years and 22 days old, the youngest player in club history to homer in an LCS game. He is the fifth player in history with five postseason homers before his 24th birthday, joining Evan Longoria, Kyle Schwarber, Andrew Jones and Mickey Mantle.

2B Jose Altuve finished 2-for-4 and scored the winning run in the ninth inning. With his two singles, Altuve owns the highest single-season postseason batting average ever at .565 (13-for-23) with a minimum of 25 plate appearances. Dodgers OF Manny Ramirez hit .520 (13-for-25) in 2008.

RHP Justin Verlander posted the 14th postseason complete game with 13-plus strikeouts since 1903, and the first since Giants RHP Tim Lincecum in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series. Verlander set a personal postseason best with 13 strikeouts and now owns five playoff games with 11-plus strikeouts, the most in postseason history. His 124 pitches were the most in a postseason game since Astros LHP Dallas Keuchel tossed 124 in Game 3 of the 2015 American League Division Series against the Kansas City Royals.

SS Corey Seager was not placed on the active roster for the NLCS because of a back injury. Seager hurt himself on a slide early in the deciding Game 3 of the NLDS against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Seager had an epidural shot in his back this week, but never participated in on-field workouts. The Dodgers remain optimistic Seager could return for a potential World Series appearance.

DH Chase Headley finished 0-for-3 with a strikeout, continuing the postseason struggles for Yankees designated hitters, who are now 0-for-23 with 10 strikeouts and just three walks in these playoffs. Headley is 0-for-12 with a walk and six strikeouts this postseason.

LHP Aroldis Chapman had worked 6 2/3 scoreless innings over four relief appearances this postseason before surrendering a walk-off double to Astros SS Carlos Correa in the ninth. Chapman also allowed a one-out single to 2B Jose Altuve, who improved to 2-for-5 against Chapman. The loss is just the second of his postseason career and first since Oct. 8, 2010, in his playoff debut with the Cincinnati Reds.

SS Charlie Culberson, who replaced an injured Corey Seager (back) in the Dodgers' starting lineup Saturday, had only 13 major league at-bats this season, all in September after he was called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City. In his second plate appearance Saturday, he tied the game with a sacrifice fly. He added a double and a run scored in the seventh. Culberson clinched the division title for the Dodgers in 2016 with a game-ending home run.

LHP Clayton Kershaw saw his night come to an end after five innings in Game 1 of the NLCS, throwing 87 pitches in the process. He gave up two runs on four hits with a walk and four strikeouts. It was actually his third postseason start in the last two years that lasted only five innings. Two of those have come against the Cubs, including the deciding game in the NLCS last year.

RHP Kenley Jansen recorded his 11th career postseason save Saturday in Game 1 of the NLCS, extending his club record. No pitcher has more postseason saves since 2013, when Jansen made his postseason debut. Multiple pitchers have seven saves since 2013. Jansen struck out all four batters he faced Saturday.

SS Corey Seager is off the Dodgers' 25-man roster for the National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs due to an injured back, the team announced Saturday. Seager suffered a back injury on Monday night in Game 3 of the NL Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was injured on a first-inning slide into second base but played the entire game. Seager, 23, batted .295 with 22 home runs and 77 RBIs in 145 regular-season games this season. He went 3-for-11 (.273) with a triple and two RBIs in three games against the Diamondbacks in the ALDS.

OF Joc Pederson was added to the Dodgers' 25-man roster for the NLCS against the Cubs.

RHP Luis Severino departed after four innings, taking a ground ball off his left wrist to close that frame. Yankees manager Joe Girardi exercised caution in removing Severino, who checked out as healthy with team physicians. Severino allowed one run on two hits and two walks but did not record a strikeout, marking the second time this postseason he failed to strike out a batter. Severino posted at least two strikeouts in each of his 31 starts during the regular season.

RHP Tommy Kahnle continued his stellar work this postseason, facing the minimum through two innings after inducing a double play in the fifth. Kahnle retired the first 16 batters he faced in the postseason before Astros 3B Alex Bregman worked a one-out walk in the fifth inning. Kahnle posted a perfect sixth inning and, through four postseason games, has worked seven scoreless innings while allowing one walk with seven strikeouts.

RHP Masahiro Tanaka became the first pitcher in franchise history to work at least six innings and allow four or fewer hits and two or fewer runs in an ALCS game since RHP A.J. Burnett in Game 2 of the 2009 ALCS against the Los Angeles Angels. Tanaka suffered the loss despite allowing two runs on four hits and one walk with three strikeouts over six innings.

RHP Sonny Gray, the scheduled starter for Game 4, threw a simulated game on Thursday in order to get some work between starts. Gray last pitched on Oct. 5 in Game 1 of the ALDS against the Cleveland Indians, allowing three runs on three hits and four walks with two strikeouts over 3 1/3 innings in a 4-0 loss. Gray is 4-7 with a 3.72 ERA over 11 starts with the Yankees following his non-waiver trade deadline acquisition from the Oakland Athletics.