The Los Angeles Dodgers are moving on to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2013 -- they lost in the NLDS in both 2014 and 2015 -- after taking care of the Washington Nationals in a thrilling Game 5 of the NLDS, 4-3.

The game didn't go to extra innings, but did take more than four and a half hours (4:32), making it the longest nine-inning playoff game of all time.

Here are 10 more things to know.

1. Dusty's playoff woes continue

Nationals manager Dusty Baker's teams had previously lost eight consecutive round-clinching games. His 2003 Cubs had a 3-1 lead in the NLCS and lost three straight to blow the series. Then his 2012 Reds had a 2-0 lead over the Giants in the NLDS, only to go on and lose three straight to the eventual World Series champions. Next up, the 2013 Reds losing the wild-card game pushed him to a big zero for his last seven. Then there was Game 4 of this series, moving him to 0-8 on games where his team could move on beginning with the 2003 NLCS. Call him the Anti-Bruce Bochy, whose Giants did it to Dusty's Reds in 2012.

So the loss on Thursday night makes it nine consecutive games where Baker's teams could have advanced in the playoffs and lost instead. This isn't to say he's been at fault for all of them, it's just an interesting factoid.

2. The managerial moves were utter madness

The game couldn't have possibly been the longest nine-inning game ever with only seven runs scored without this entry. This was a National League fan's delight.

There were four double-switches. Six pinch hitters were used, as was one pinch runner. There was one defensive replacement as well.

The Nationals emptied their bench and ended up with only three unused pitchers (Gio Gonzalez, Tanner Roark and Reynaldo Lopez). Starter Max Scherzer made it through six-plus innings and Baker used six pitchers to get through the final three.

The Dodgers only left Yasiel Puig unused, but he was actually on deck for a quick second once. Starting pitcher Rich Hill only lasted 2 2/3 innings and manager Dave Roberts would use six pitchers in all.

Not only that, but Roberts ended up going to stud closer Kenley Jansen in the seventh inning with no outs and trying to get a three-inning save out of him. After racking up a career high in pitches (he'd end with 51), Jansen was clearly gassed.

So Roberts turned to Clayton Kershaw, who had started Game 4 on short rest. Kershaw entered with Daniel Murphy at the plate, the tying run at second and winning run at first for the Nationals. He'd get an easy pop out from Murphy and then a strikeout to end it. So Kershaw, of all people, got the save.

He did have one other professional save (in rookie ball with Jansen catching. Seriously).

3. Almost everything happened in the seventh inning

Through six innings, the game had moved rather quickly and it was but 1-0 Nationals. Then Joc Pederson led off the seventh with an opposite-field home run off Scherzer and it was on.

Scherzer was absolutely dealing to that point. He took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, had gotten several big strikeouts and was doing that strut where he walks around the mound like a madman. When he's locked in like that, it feels like he's never going to give up a run. Then the Pederson homer happened and Baker pulled him. It may have been too quick of a hook, really, which is funny considering it was Baker.

The Nats would use six pitchers in the inning, including Scherzer, while Roberts would employ three different pinch hitters and a pinch runner (and it was a catcher who pinch ran for another catcher).

The Yasmani Grandal walk and Howie Kendrick single set the table for some drama. Charlie Culberson pinch hit and was tasked with bunting the runners over, but he struck out on a foul bunt. Roberts then chose to pinch hit for Chase Utley (a lefty was pitching) with former Phillies teammate Carlos Ruiz.

Yes, Roberts used all three catchers in one inning.

Ruiz would grab the clutch single to put the Dodgers on top. Two hitters later, Justin Turner would triple off the center-field wall to give the Nationals a 4-1 lead. Just like that.

In the bottom half, a Danny Espinosa walk compelled Baker to pinch hit with Chris Heisey for catcher Jose Lobaton. Heisey homered, cutting the Dodgers' lead to 4-3.

So nearly all the movement we discussed earlier and all but one run in the game happened in the seventh inning, which took over an hour on its own. What an inning.

4. Did a bad send change everything?

In tandem with the Pederson homer and the Dodgers' top half of the inning, the turning point of the game could have been the end of the Nationals' sixth. With Jayson Werth on first base and two outs, Ryan Zimmerman shot a liner down the left-field line. Werth was running as hard as he could, but the Dodgers had already gotten the ball to shortstop Corey Seager by the time Werth was rounding third.

Yet he was waved home by Nationals third-base coach Bob Henley. He was dead to rights on Seager's throw home. He might have not even been halfway down the line when catcher Grandal caught the ball.

It wasn't an aggressive send. It was an insanely terrible send.

Sure, Danny Espinosa might not have gotten a hit if Werth was held at third, but what if he did? That's a 3-0 Nationals lead -- Zimmerman was on second, remember -- and everything changes.

5. The Nationals missed opportunities

Of course, the Nationals left guys on all game.

In the second inning, they left runners on first and third. They did that again in the third inning -- and that time they had their fastest runner, Trea Turner, on third base with just one out.

In the aforementioned seventh inning, they again had a runner on third with one out and failed to score him, as Anthony Rendon struck out to end the inning with the bases loaded. On that note:

Most Runners LOB - Playoff Series



1986 WS Bill Buckner - 25

1993 LCS Ellis Burks - 23

2016 LDS Anthony Rendon - 22

1912 WS Duffy Lewis - 22 — Anthony Masterson (@MasterTones) October 14, 2016

Yikes. [Aside: Poor Billy Buckner!]

In the eighth, Stephen Drew took a leadoff walk, but never advanced past first base.

And in the ninth, against a clearly-cooked Kenley Jansen, the Nationals drew two one-out walks and couldn't get the tying run home.

That's an awful lot of ducks left on the pond.

6. Daniel Murphy is still a postseason machine

Of course, we already knew this, but he was ridiculous this series. After his second-inning single, we could then say that Murphy has reached base safely in every single postseason game of his career. That's 19. The only streak longer than that to being a postseason career was Boog Powell with 25 (via Anthony McCarron).

In the series, Murphy hit .438 with a .545 OBP and six RBI.

Of course, he popped out with two on and one out in the ninth, so the Dodgers had the last laugh.

7. We had some rarities at the plate

The first run of the game came on a second-inning single from Danny Espinosa to right field from the right side of the plate. It's incredibly notable because ...

Danny Espinosa's spray chart as a right-handed hitter this year. He had 1 hit to right field. pic.twitter.com/on71lPB0uV — Matt Meyers (@mtmeyers) October 14, 2016

Wow. Just one time all year before that. Baseball is crazy, man. There's more. Remember Pederson's homer? It was to left field.

We just witnessed Joc Pederson's 2nd opposite field homer this season (out of 25 total HR). #Goodtiming#LALovesOctober — Inside Edge (@InsideEdgeScout) October 14, 2016

The one thing that helps a little on that one is that Scherzer was very susceptible to the home run this season (he led the NL with 31) and most came against lefties.

8. Home teams lose a lot in Game 5

In 11 NLDS Game 5s in the wild-card era, the home team has only won three of them (via Katie Sharp).

This isn't something that should lead us to believe it's better to be on the road in the future. It's just an oddity.

9. Urias makes history

Dodgers Southpaw Julio Urias (20 years, 62 days) was youngest pitcher to appear in a playoff game since Don Gullett in the 1970 World Series. He's also the youngest Dodgers pitcher to ever appear in a postseason game, breaking the mark held by Hall of Famer Don Drysdale.

One fun item: He faced Bryce Harper, who is four years his elder. Urias actually picked Harper off first base, which shouldn't have been a giant surprise. Urias led the majors with six pickoffs despite logging only 77 innings pitched in the regular season.

Urias would go two scoreless innings and thanks in part to being in the right place at the right time, he grabbed the win. This made him the youngest pitcher in MLB history to garner a postseason win.

10. No rest for the weary

After a hard-fought series using the entire 25-man roster, the Dodgers move on to face the mighty Cubs in the NLCS, with Game 1 coming Saturday night.

The Dodgers had to fly from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles Sunday night in order to play Monday and Tuesday. Then Tuesday night they flew back to D.C. to play Thursday night. They'll now head to Chicago for a workout day Friday afternoon and then Game 1 on Saturday.

They better be road warriors or the joy of beating the Nationals won't last very long. For now, though, they've earned a celebration, albeit a brief one.

Relive the Game 5 action with our live blog in the meantime: