ATLANTA - Chris Taylor was certain his line drive was hooking foul.
A deflection by Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley changed the path of the baseball - and the outcome of a dramatic showdown between the past two World Series champions.
Taylor had three hits, including the go-ahead double in the 11th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-3 win over the Braves on Sunday night.
Taylor's double off Darren O'Day (1-2) glanced off Riley's glove as Cody Bellinger scored from third base.
"When I hit it, I knew it was going to hook foul," Taylor said. "I'm just glad he didn't catch it. Then I realized he kind of hit it into fair territory."
Trea Turner padded the lead with a run-scoring single to center field.
The Dodgers, who scored two runs in the ninth to force extra innings, won two of three games in the weekend series that featured Freddie Freeman's emotional return to Atlanta.
The veteran first baseman who signed with Los Angeles in the offseason capped the series on a high note, with his double down the right-field line to lead off the 10th giving the Dodgers a 3-2 lead. With Turner opening the 10th on second base as the automatic runner, Freeman's double off Will Smith drove in the go-ahead run.
It was the second hit of the game for Freeman, who also had two strikeouts.
"I'm emotionally drained," he said afterward.
The Dodgers won the season series 4-2, and the teams won't play again until next year - unless they meet in the postseason after facing off in the National League Championship Series the past two falls.
"I don't think I'll have one cheer if I come back in October," said Freeman, who received a standing ovation Friday, when he was presented his World Series ring by Braves manager Brian Snitker during a pregame ceremony.
Freeman received cheers throughout the series, including as he approached the plate in the first inning Sunday. Freeman stepped out of the batter's box, raised his helmet and bat in response to the fans, and the cheers grew. He shook his head as if in disbelief and then finally stepped back into the box before hitting a groundout.
"I just want to say thanks again," Freeman said after the game. "It surpassed all my expectations."
Brusdar Graterol pitched a scoreless 11th for the first save of his MLB career.
Atlanta's Kenley Jansen and the Dodgers' Craig Kimbrel (1-3) each had blown saves against their former teams. Jansen gave up two runs in the top of the ninth to blow a 2-0 lead, and Kimbrel yielded Matt Olson's tying single to lead off the bottom of the 10th.
"That's a closer's life," said Snitker, who added Jansen "will bounce back. He'll be fine. That's not the first and probably won't be the last time that's happened to him."
Olson's single to right field drove in Travis d'Arnaud, who was on second base as the automatic runner.
Trayce Thompson's two-run single off Jansen in the ninth set up extra innings.
"That was quite the game, quite the series," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "That was a heavyweight battle."
Jansen's fourth blown save in 24 chances wasted a strong start by Braves rookie Spencer Strider, who allowed only five hits in six scoreless innings to outpitch Tony Gonsolin.
Jansen recorded two strikeouts, leaving him one out away from his second save in as many nights. He gave up singles to Gavin Lux and Taylor before Thompson's two-run single to right field on a 1-2 count carried just over the reach of Braves first baseman Olson.
The hard-throwing Strider recorded seven strikeouts with no walks in the longest start of his rookie season.
Gonsolin, denied in his bid to become the majors' first 10-game winner this year, gave up one run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Braves rookie Michael Harris II made a diving catch of Turner's sinking liner in center field to end the ninth. He made another improbable catch in the 11th, running down a drive hit by Lux toward right field.
"The Harris kid in center field," Roberts said, "he's a game changer out there."
Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. was unable to put pressure on his left foot after fouling a ball off it in Saturday night's game. Tests revealed no fracture, and Snitker said the injury was only a bruise.
"I just kept playing, and then as the game went on eventually it just got to the point I couldn't really stand on it," Acuña said through a translator.
Acuña is hitting .281 with seven homers and 18 RBIs in his return this year from a torn ACL in his right knee. He tore the ligament last July, when he landed awkwardly while attempting to make a catch in right field in Miami and missed the rest of the season.
Acuña leads the Braves with 13 stolen bases and has returned to an everyday role in the outfield after spending time as the designated hitter early in his comeback.
"It's a feeling that reminds me of last year a little bit, just the frustration of not wanting to have to do anything related to rehabs or rehab assignments or anything," Acuña said. "I just want to be able to play every day. The frustration is not being able to play every single day."
Snitker said left-handed reliever Tyler Matzek (left shoulder inflammation) "is going to need a few games, I think" in his minor league rehabilitation at Class A Augusta, which begins this week.
The Braves are off Monday before opening a three-game series at Philadelphia.