Willson Contreras' 491-foot HR in NLCS Game 4

CHICAGO -- For the fourth consecutive game in the National League Championship Series presented by Camping World, the Cubs took the lead on Wednesday, clubbing two homers off Dodgers lefty Alex Wood in the second inning -- including the longest Statcast- has tracked in the last three years of postseason play.

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Willson Contreras' solo shot traveled a projected 491 feet, ricocheting off the video board in left field. Two batters later, Javier Baez hit a 437-foot shot that nearly made it to Waveland Avenue, instead landing on the concourse beyond the left-most section of Wrigley Field bleachers. The home runs gave the Cubs a 2-0 lead, which Cody Bellinger shaved to 2-1 with a leadoff homer half an inning later.

"We're going to find out," manager Joe Maddon said about whether the early Cubs homers would jump-start the offense in an in-game interview with TBS. "Wood's pretty good. We have to find some kind of consistency in our approach, get a couple more baserunners and then get one of those [home runs] as opposed to the solo homer."

The Cubs also took early leads in Games 1-3, but quickly gave back all three in falling into a 3-0 series deficit. However, their pair of runs in two innings off Wood equaled their total in Games 2 and 3 combined.

Anthony DiComo has covered the Mets for MLB.com since 2008. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDiComo and Facebook. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.