Cubs Vs. Dodgers: When And How To Watch Game 2, 2017 NL Championship Series

It's October, and the Chicago Cubs get to do something they haven't done in more than a century: defend a World Series title. After a tight series against the Washington Nationals, the North Siders now challenge the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series for the second consecutive year. The best-of-seven series began Saturday, Oct. 14.

Can the Cubs make it back to the World Series this season? Will the 2017 postseason join last year as part of a Chicago dynasty of multiple championships? Patch gets you ready for each playoff game with all the info you need to know before you enjoy the action on the field.

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2017 NL Championship Series

Dodgers lead the best-of-seven series, 1-0

GAME 2

First Pitch: 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15

Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

TV | Radio | Streaming: TBS | 670 the Score (WSCR-AM), ESPNRadio 1000 (WMVP-AM) | MLB.com

Pitching Matchup: Jon Lester (0-0; 1.86 ERA, 9.2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 5 K, 3 BB) vs. Rich Hill (0-0; 4.50 ERA, 4.0 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 4 K, 3 BB)

Previous NLCS Game Results

GAME 1

Cubs 2, Dodgers 5

W: Kenta Maeda (1-0; 1.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 K, 0 BB) | L: Hector Rendon (0-1; 0.1 IP, 1 ER, 1 K, 0 BB) | S: Kenley Jansen (1; 1.1 IP, 0 ER, 4 K, 0 BB)

Maddon: Review Erased "Beautifully Done" Play

Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig might have been the Cubs' biggest nemesis in Game 1, but it was the controversial play at the plate in the seventh inning that Chicago fans and Cubs manager Joe Maddon were talking about after Saturday's game.

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Los Angeles' Charlie Culberson was called out when catcher Wilson Contreras tagged him out after Justin Turner single. But that call was challenged by the Dodgers and overturned on a video review. Even though Culberson missed the plate, Contreras had blocked it with his foot, a violation of Major League Baseball's rule instituted to eliminate collisions on the base paths and at home.

"[Contreras] catches the ball, and his technique was absolutely 100 percent perfect," Maddon said after Saturday's game. "I could not disagree more with the interpretation of that [rule]. However, I will defend the umpires. 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. I think it's wrong. … That was a beautifully done Major League play all the way around."

"[Contreras] did everything right," the manager added. "There is nothing else he could have done. Nothing. Nothing he could have done differently."

Maddon made it clear that he didn't think the call changed the outcome of the game. The Dodgers were already up 4-2 in Game 1 when the play happened in the seventh, and the Cubs were unable to score anymore runs the rest of the game.

Cubs fans were still upset at the umpires reversing a potential game-changing play that could have shifted momentum to the North Siders:

Is MLB Rule As Bad As Soda Tax? Maddon Thinks So

Maddon confused many of the national media during his post-game press conference when he compared the rule that led to the controversial seventh-inning call reversal to the recently repealed Cook County sugary beverage tax, known locally as the soda tax.

"That gets interpreted kind of like tantamount to the soda tax in Chicago, for me," Maddon said.

The manager was then asked to clarify his comparison.

"The soda tax, where are the Chicagoans here?" he said. "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."

Art of Getting Ejected

Although he agreed with how the umpires in LA handled the play at the plate reversal, that didn't stop Maddon from being ejected for arguring the call after the video review. He said after the game that he wanted to make a statement with ejection.

"You've got to make a point at some point, man," Maddon said. "It's like, listen, I'm not going to just sit there and take that when I disagree with it 100 percent. And I let [umpire] Mike Winters know that. I let Mike know what my intent was. Listen, I could easily not say anything, absolutely. And I could easily just acquiesce. But if I'm doing that, I'm going against what I believe in, and I'm not going to do that."

Maddon, however, wouldn't talk about what he said that got him ejection.

"You can't discuss that at all. … Once the call is made from video replay, there is nothing I can say," he said. "Actually, I might be able to say, 'Well, what did they say to you?' But I was not interested in that."

Quintana: Wife's "Good Now" After Plane Emergency

Cubs starting pitcher Jose Quintana might have had more on his mind Friday and Saturday than just winning Game 1 of the NLCS. It was Quintana's wife who had the medical emergency Friday that caused the Cubs' flight from Washington, D.C., following the NL Division Series to land in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delaying the team from reaching Los Angeles for five hours, according to the Chicago Sun-Times' Rick Morrissey.

Quintana told Morrissey that his wife had heart palpitations and suffered from nerves and "a little panic" on the flight. The pitcher stayed with his wife at the hospital after the rest of the team left for LA. The couple eventually flew out and reached Los Angeles at 10 p.m. Friday, Morrissey reports.

“She felt really bad," Quintana told Morrissey. "We tried to control the situation, but she said she felt so bad. So we stopped. She’s good now.’"

The Cubs' Albert Almora Jr. (left) and the Dodgers' Chris Taylor in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday, Oct. 14, at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

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