The Milwaukee Brewers hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers in game 2 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) last night. The Dodgers would get on the board right away with a walk from Mookie Betts who then made his way around the bases on a groundout, and a sacrifice fly from Teoscar Hernandez. The Brewers would get the run right back in the bottom of the 1st inning with a double from Brice Turang with one-out before he was scored on an RBI single from William Contreras. Then there was a scoreless second inning with neither team pushing a run across. In the 3rd inning, The Dodgers would regain their lead with a run scoring on an error by Brewers pitcher Logan Henderson after Tommy Edman and Mookie Betts got on with base hits. In the bottom of the 3rd the Brewers would respond again with a leadoff single by David Hamilton, and a single from Brice Turang, before a long plate appearance from Jake Bauers loads the bases and knocks Yoshinobu Yamamoto out of the game, then Christian Yelich drove in two runs with a single to give the Brewers their first lead. Then both teams would go scoreless in the 4th inning before the Dodgers would regain their lead in the 5th inning on a double from Kyle Tucker, and then a throwing error on the pitcher, and then they got a sacrifice fly from Freddie Freeman. In the bottom of the 5th, The Brewers got a run back on a long home run from William Contreras. Then the Dodgers went scoreless in the top of the 6th inning with a scoreless inning from Jojo Romero out of the bullpen. In the bottom of the 6th inning, the Brewers would take the lead back after David Hamilton got him by a pitch, and advanced to second on a throwing error by the pitcher, and advanced to 3rd on a groundout from Jackson Chourio, and was driven in on the third RBI hit of the night for William Contreras. Both teams would be held scoreless in the 7th inning. In the 8th inning the Brewers would get two insurance runs on RBI singles from Brice Turang and Jake Bauers. Aaron Ashby would come out for his second inning of relief in the 9th and shut down the Dodgers with a 1-2-3 inning, and the Brewers held on to win game 2 by a final score of 7-4. The Brewers took a 2-0 series lead with the series shifting to Los Angeles.
Next up:
These two teams meet in game 3 of the NLCS on Wednesday night from Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles at 8 PM EST broadcast on FS1.
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