Chris Taylor becomes the second Dodger with 3 home runs in a postseason game, joining Enrique Hernandez.

LOS ANGELES -- When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Chris Taylor hit his third homer of the game in the seventh inning, Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker sat in his dugout chair and stared, unblinking, at some random spot in the Dodger Stadium outfield.

Dumb that this series is heading back to Atlanta after the Dodgers spent the better part of four games playing like amateurs, dumb that the Braves couldn't even put up a fight in Game 5 with the Dodgers' pitching staff down to beaks and claws and fully rested ace Max Fried pitching for Atlanta, and especially dumb that the Dodgers' hitters -- terrible all series -- lost Justin Turner to injury in Game 4 and then came out of their shoes the next night to get 17 hits, five of them homers.

"I don't know how to explain it," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

We're up 3-2 going home.

I think we're going to be just fine.".

After the game, Roberts and a parade of Dodgers players took turns auditioning descriptions of Taylor's uniquely quirky personality.

They all commended his ability to simultaneously play baseball and shift his brain into neutral -- "He's just in the moment," was the way Roberts put it -- and Pollock broke the news that Taylor gets passionate about only two things: beer and surfing videos.

Asked what he was thinking as he headed to the plate in the eighth with a chance to hit his fourth homer, Taylor said, "I was trying not to think about it.".

"Same with Justin, same with Max [Muncy], we're just going to have to figure it out," Robert said.

The Dodgers didn't salute them, though, or make any grand gestures after their final home game of the NLCS