LOS ANGELES — Philadelphia Phillies reliever Orion Kerkering booted a ground ball and threw wildly to home plate, when an easier out was available at first base, as the Los Angeles Dodgers captured a series-clinching 2-1 walk-off win Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.

Kerkering’s error on Andy Pages’ 40-foot bouncer with two outs and the bases loaded in the 11th inning ended a madcap game and series between two NL titans.

The Dodgers, vying to be the league’s first back-to-back World Series champion in a quarter century, will face the Milwaukee Brewers or Chicago Cubs in the NLCS.

The game was a pitcher’s duel until the seventh inning, when Nick Castellanos roped a run-scoring double to left field and the Dodgers answered with Mookie Betts drawing a bases-loaded, two-out, full-count walk

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