NEW YORK – Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers, capping their 8-0 victory over the New York Mets in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday night.

Kiké Hernández hit a two-run pitch in the sixth inning to make it 4-0 and waved to the Citi Field crowd, which he silenced. Los Angeles rebounded from a home loss to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series by posting its fourth shutout in its last five playoff games.

Ohtani scored in the eighth, a 410-foot drive that rocketed into the second deck in right field and stayed just above the foul pole.

Max Muncy hit his 13th postseason home run in the ninth, tying Corey Seager and Justin Turner for the franchise record. Muncy also scored in Game 2.

An enthusiastic Walker Buehler struck out Francisco Lindor to load the bases in the second, and the Dodgers pitched five tight innings from their hard-throwing bullpen. Buehler combined for a four-hitter with four relievers.

Game 4 is Thursday night in Queens. $325 million rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto is scheduled to face veteran left-hander Jose Quintana in Los Angeles.

Michael Kopech earned the win with a fifth no-hitter, and the Dodgers pitchers finished the game with 13 strikeouts.

Mets starter Luis Severino fell 2-0 in the second, due in part to poor fielding. He did not allow an earned run but threw 95 pitches and walked four in 4 2/3 innings, earning the loss.

Collapsing catcher Will Smith scored a run on an infield single, and Tommy Edman had a sacrifice fly that could have been more if Tyrone Taylor hadn’t made a sensational catch on the warning track in right-center.

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Dodgers: 2B Gavin Lux was back in the lineup, batting sixth. Lux missed Game 2 with a right hip flexor injury that forced him out of the series opener in the seventh inning.

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Yamamoto (7-2, 3.00 ERA) struggled in the Division Series opener against San Diego, but then threw five scoreless innings of two-hit ball last Friday and won the deciding Game 5. He hit 39 of 63 pitches for strikes.

Quintana (10-10, 3.75 ERA) has not allowed an earned run through 11 innings in two playoff starts, both without a decision. Going back to August 25, the 35-year-old Quintana has given up just three earned runs in eight starts over 47 1/3 innings.

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