CLEVELAND -- On Wednesday night, Mookie Betts picked up two hits against Guardians starter Xzavion Curry before the sky opened up and suspended the rest of the middle game of this three-game series to Thursday afternoon.

Sixteen hours later, the Dodgers’ all-world superstar picked up where he left off by recording three hits once the game resumed.

Betts went 5-for-5 in the Dodgers' 6-1 win vs. Cleveland. It was Betts' second career five-hit game, with the first one coming on Aug. 26, 2016, when he was a member of the Boston Red Sox. It was the first five-hit game by a Dodger since Justin Turner went 5-for-6 against the Pirates on May 26, 2019.

The five-hit game is just another feather in the cap of Betts, who has been the hottest hitter in the Majors over the past few weeks. He has an 11-game hitting streak and has had a multihit game in 12 of his 20 games in August.

After recording a single in each of his first four at-bats, Betts opened up a bigger lead in the eighth by smashing a two-run double off the 19-foot high wall in left field off Cleveland reliever Tim Herrin.

Prior to that, the Dodgers’ lone run upon the game’s resumption came in the fourth inning when Freddie Freeman blooped in a 60.1 mph single to score Miguel Rojas for one of his three hits in the game.

The Dodgers cruised out to a 3-1 lead prior to the game being suspended, with Will Smith picking up a sacrifice fly and Kiké Hernández adding on with a two-run double off Curry for a three-run first inning.

Clayton Kershaw looked sharp on the mound, as he allowed one hit (a home run to José Ramírez) and struck out four on 33 pitches (24 strikes). About 15 minutes into the rain delay, Kershaw headed out to the bullpen where he threw before coming back to the Dodgers’ dugout. As he was walking back from the bullpen, he threw his hands up in the air in disgust while motioning to the tarp, which had yet to be rained on.

“Obviously, [Clayton] was disappointed, because he was working through some things,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday night. “I’m sure [Curry] is disappointed too. But it was out of our control.”

Roberts said that Kershaw’s next start will likely be on six days' rest, but that he could slot into the weekend series in Boston depending on if any games are impacted by the weather.

When the game resumed, the Dodgers used six relievers who combined to allow just three hits over the final seven innings, with Gus Varland and Ryan Brasier both going more than one inning.

Mother Nature made her presence known on Thursday as well, as there was a one-hour, 13-minute rain delay between the eighth and ninth innings. Varland picked up the win, while Bryan Hudson pitched a scoreless ninth inning to close it out.

Ryan Pepiot, who had been with the team in Cleveland, was recalled as the 27th man, and he will get the bulk of the innings in the finale after an opener.