{"id":304505,"date":"2025-10-15T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:04:13","slug":"la-dodgers-take-2-0-lead-in-nlcs-against-milwaukee-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304505\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Dodgers take 2-0 lead in NLCS against Milwaukee Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the first postseason complete game in eight years as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Tuesday night to take a commanding lead in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1978257788208918675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1978281479563076021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Muncy<\/a> each hit a solo homer as the Dodgers left Milwaukee with a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-seven series, which shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Thursday. Muncy&#8217;s 412-foot drive to center field was the 14th homer of his postseason career, breaking the Dodgers record he had shared with Corey Seager and Justin Turner.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto allowed a home run to Jackson Chourio on the first of his 111 pitches but shut down the Brewers the rest of the way. The right-hander&#8217;s complete game was his first in the majors and the first in the postseason since Justin Verlander did it for Houston against the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the 2017 ALCS.<\/p>\n<p>The last Dodgers pitcher to throw a complete game in the postseason was Jose Lima against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2004 NL Division Series.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time since 1970 that both LCS road teams started 2-0. The Seattle Mariners own a 2-0 lead in the ALCS heading into Game 3 on Wednesday in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-2241108017.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"National League Championship Series - Los Angeles Dodgers v Milwaukee Brewers - Game Two \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrates after beating the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>                Michael Reaves \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four of the previous 27 teams that took the first two games on the road in a best-of-seven series with a 2-3-2 format have gone on to win. The three teams to come back after losing Games 1 and 2 at home all came in World Series: the 1985 Kansas City Royals against the St. Louis Cardinals, the 1986 New York Mets against the Boston Red Sox, and the 1996 New York Yankees against the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers pulled out all the stops Tuesday as they tried to avoid that 2-0 deficit. Former Milwaukee slugger Eric Thames got on the field to exhort fans just before the game and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1978278681702236300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">popped open his jersey<\/a> to reveal his bare chest.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1978255042273522156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chourio<\/a> then delighted a sellout crowd by sending Yamamoto&#8217;s first pitch over the wall in right-center field for his fourth career postseason homer, tying Orlando Arcia and Prince Fielder for the Brewers record.<\/p>\n<p>That seemed like a foreboding start for Yamamoto, who lasted just two-thirds of an inning in an 8-1 loss the previous time he pitched in Milwaukee. But he bounced back and silenced the Brewers the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers have five hits in the series. Los Angeles left-hander Blake Snell limited them to one hit and no walks over eight innings in the Dodgers&#8217; 2-1 Game 1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles became the first team to have consecutive postseason starts of at least eight innings in the same series since San Francisco&#8217;s Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum did it in Games 4 and 5 of the 2010 World Series against Texas.<\/p>\n<p>After Chourio&#8217;s homer, Los Angeles wasted no time coming back against Brewers ace Freddy Peralta.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez, whose baserunning mistake contributed to the Brewers&#8217; unusual 8-6-2 double play in Game 1, sent a 3-2 curve over the left-field wall for his fourth homer of this postseason. Two outs later, Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez singled and scored on Andy Pages&#8217; double.<\/p>\n<p>Pages had been 1 for 27 in the postseason before delivering his shot into the right-field corner.<\/p>\n<p>Muncy extended the lead to 3-1 with his two-out homer in the sixth, which came on Peralta&#8217;s 97th and final pitch of the night. The Dodgers added two more runs on RBI singles by Shohei Ohtani in the seventh and Tommy Edman in the eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the first postseason complete game in eight years as the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":304506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1280,1281,1582,276,2044,1284,2961,224,2502,5337,1884,6375,4247,1305,2228,4712,62,3692],"class_list":{"0":"post-304505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-justin-verlander","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-milwaukee","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","21":"tag-new-york-mets","22":"tag-new-york-yankees","23":"tag-shohei-ohtani","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115376440622552511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}