Whicker: The only thing that could beat the Dodgers did so in Game 5

LOS ANGELES — If you can pronounce or spell “Niedenfuer,” you have felt this way before.
Except this was Howie Kendrick, 35 years old and shaking off what had been a shaky National League Division Series, who launched a grand slam into the Dodgers’ solar plexus on Wednesday night.
It wasn’t Jack Clark beating Niedenfuer and the Dodgers in the 1985 NLCS for St. Louis, a town the Washington Nationals and not the Dodgers will visit for this upcoming rung on the ladder.