LOS ANGELES — Michael Harris II turned a bullpen game into a series-altering night, and the Atlanta Braves left Dodger Stadium with the split they came for.

Harris tripled and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch, then added an insurance RBI double, as Atlanta beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Sunday night to even the National League Division Series at one game apiece. The Dodgers had taken Game 1, 5-3, and were chasing a third straight World Series title. Instead they head to Truist Park with the series tied.

Braves Even Dodgers Series 1-1

“Getting the split in this place against these guys, yeah, it’s awesome,” Braves manager Walt Weiss said.

Both teams combined for only six hits. The difference was how Atlanta manufactured its three runs and how its patchwork staff kept Shohei Ohtani and the rest of the Dodgers lineup from doing more.

Early lead, early trouble for Snell

The Braves struck in the first against Blake Snell. Ronald Acuña Jr. singled with one out, stole second, and eventually scored when Mauricio Dubón beat out a two-out, bases-loaded infield single. Mookie Betts made a diving stop, but his throw was wide and Acuña came home. Atlanta left the bases loaded, but the early run was enough to chase the left-hander from a clean start.

Snell lasted only 3⅔ innings — his shortest postseason outing since 2022 with San Diego — allowing one run on three hits, walking five, and striking out five while throwing 90 pitches.

Freeman ties it, Harris takes it back

Freddie Freeman, facing his former club in the postseason for the first time, tied the game with a solo home run to right in the fourth off Grant Holmes. It was Freeman’s seventh homer against Atlanta since he left after the 2021 season.

Atlanta answered immediately. With two outs in the fifth, Harris lined a triple into the left-field corner past Teoscar Hernández — his first triple in the postseason — off reliever Kris Bubic. Bubic then uncorked a wild pitch that got past Will Smith, and Harris scored standing up to make it 2-1.

Harris made it 3-1 in the seventh with a two-out RBI double to right against Edgardo Henriquez, scoring Matt Olson. He finished 3-for-5, a single short of the cycle, with a run and an RBI.

A bullpen plan that held

Atlanta opened with Ray Kerr, who was working on short rest after 47 pitches as the opener in the Wild Card Series clincher against the Phillies. Kerr threw 2⅔ scoreless innings and retired Ohtani twice. Holmes, Dylan Lee, Robert Suarez, Didier Fuentes, and Raisel Iglesias followed.

Suarez escaped a fifth-inning jam by retiring the heart of the Dodgers order with two on and nobody out. Fuentes, the 21-year-old, worked deep into the night and was one out from finishing the game when Max Muncy homered to right-center on a 3-2 fastball in the ninth, cutting the lead to 3-2. Weiss went to Iglesias for the final out. The closer got pinch-hitter Josue De Paula to foul out to third for his second save of the postseason.

The six Atlanta arms combined to allow two runs on six hits, with three walks and nine strikeouts. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pointed to chase swings outside the zone as a reason the lineup never fully squared the ball up.

What comes next

The series shifts to Atlanta for Game 3 on Tuesday at Truist Park, with Chris Sale lined up after being held back on Sunday. Tyler Mahle is expected to start Game 4 on Wednesday. A decisive Game 5, if necessary, would return to Dodger Stadium on Friday.

For one night in Los Angeles, the lower-seeded Braves matched the Dodgers pitch for pitch, and Harris made the plays that sent the series home even.