Yu Darvish set the pace by pitching 6-1/3 effective innings and earned his first career win in a league championship series as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-1 on Tuesday to move one victory away from the World Series.

Darvish (1-0) took command on the mound, striking out seven and limiting the damage to a Kyle Schwarber solo shot before 41,871 at Wrigley Field to help give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.

After surrendering a homer to the second batter he faced, Darvish did not allow a runner past second base and ended up with six hits and one walk in an 81-pitch effort. Four more pitchers took the mound for the Dodgers, with Kenley Jansen closing out the ninth.

"The first home run by Schwarber really picked the crowd up but after that I didn't pay much attention to them," Darvish said of pitching in Cubs' iconic ballpark.

The sixth-year right-hander, who spent five-and-a-half seasons with the Texas Rangers before moving to Los Angeles in a last minute trade in July, also contributed at the plate by driving in the team's fourth run on a two-out, bases-loaded walk in the sixth.

It was Darvish's second postseason win following his divisional series win over the Arizona Diamondbacks last week, when the Dodgers clinched the best-of-five series in three games to advance to the NLCS.

After Schwarber went deep to put the Cubs up 1-0 in the bottom of the first, Andre Ethier responded with a game-tying homer in the second and Chris Taylor followed with a go-ahead solo shot in third, both off Kyle Hendricks (0-1).

In the American League Championship Series, the New York Yankees defeated the Houston Astros 6-4 at Yankee Stadium to even the series at two games each.

Masahiro Tanaka will start for the Yankees in Wednesday's Game 5 against Astros ace Dallas Keuchel, who has beaten him twice in their two career postseason matchups.